Coughing up lung cancer

Published January 30, 2007 5:00am ET



What you cough up in the morning could help diagnose lung cancer, according to research conducted at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

That?s because some material coughed up along with phlegm could include cells missing their tumor suppression genes, according to a release from the school.

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