T Khalid

TL;DR: A compendium of all the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emanating from the human body (the volatolome) is for the first time reported and it is the authors' intention that this database will not only be a useful database of VOCs listed in the literature, but will stimulate further study of V OCs from healthy individuals.

TL;DR: Results from VOC profiling of urine headspace are encouraging and suggest that there are other metabolomic avenues worth exploring which could help improve the stratification of men at risk of prostate cancer.

TL;DR: This new device shows potential for the diagnosis of bladder cancer, but the data must be reproduced in a larger study, and are an improvement on those reported by other groups studying headspace gases and also superior to current clinical techniques.

TL;DR: This is the first work evaluating different aspects of sample preparation for direct SPME-GC-MS analysis of VOCs and the first method proposed for the analysis of murine and human faecal samples and proposed method can be coupled to the Automated Mass Spectral Deconvolution and Identification System and the R software package, Metab to produce results in a reliable and high-throughput manner.

TL;DR: The results of the pilot study presented here indicate that the GC system is able to successfully identify patterns that allow classification of urine samples from patients with urological cancers.