According to statistics published by WHO, lung cancer was the leading cause of cancer deaths in 2020, accounting for close to 1.8 million death cases worldwide. Muted symptoms in its early stages make lung cancer screening especially challenging. Indeed, early detection is quintessential to pivot the ongoing situation.
As of today, health practitioners globally have been conducting chest X-rays and/or LDCT scans for lung cancer screening. While chest X-ray screening proves the lack of substantial benefit for lung cancer survival rate, LDCT, on the contrary, tends to lead to over diagnosis. Both methods require intensive experience for cancer diagnosis in addition to real concerns over exposures to radiation. The VITAE Biomedical lung cancer IVD reagent kit helps detect a specific biomarker in patients’ urine for lung cancer screening. This breakthrough service is non-invasive, non-radiative, and made possible for early detection. It provides excellent benefit-to-risk ratio for the public and is expected to be the go-to screening technology for high-risk individuals and lung cancer patients who can benefit from continuous monitoring anytime and anywhere.