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Review
. 2019 Nov 27;4(1):bpz014.
doi: 10.1093/biomethods/bpz014. eCollection 2019.

Digging deeper into volatile organic compounds associated with cancer

Sajjad Janfaza  1   2 , Babak Khorsand  3 , Maryam Nikkhah  2 , Javad Zahiri  4
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Review

Digging deeper into volatile organic compounds associated with cancer

Sajjad Janfaza et al. Biol Methods Protoc. .

Abstract

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs), produced and emitted through the metabolism of cancer cells or the body's immune system, are considered novel cancer biomarkers for diagnostic purposes. Of late, a large number of work has been done to find a relationship between VOCs' signature of body and cancer. Cancer-related VOCs can be used to detect several types of cancers at the earlier stages which in turn provide a significantly higher chance of survival. Here we aim to provide an updated picture of cancer-related VOCs based on recent findings in this field focusing on cancer odor database.

Keywords: aldehydes; cancer diagnosis; cancer odor; lung cancer; volatile organic compounds.

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Figure 1:
Figure 1:
Frequency of VOCs detected in various types of biological matrices.
Figure 2:
Figure 2:
The network representations of cancer-related VOCs (shown by their PubChem ID) and cancer types obtained from analyzing the COD database.
Figure 3:
Figure 3:
VOCs related to four or more than four types of cancer. The number of different types of cancer in which the VOCs are contributed is indicated.
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