This paper comprises an updated version of the 2014 review which reported 1846 volatile
organic compounds (VOCs) identified from healthy humans. In total over 900 additional …

A compendium of all the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emanating from the human
body (the volatolome) is for the first time reported. 1840 VOCs have been assigned from …

Breath analysis is a young field of research with its roots in antiquity. Antoine Lavoisier
discovered carbon dioxide in exhaled breath during the period 1777–1783, Wilhelm (Vilém) …

Lung cancer (LC) is the leading cause of cancer mortality, with more than 1 million deaths
worldwide every year. 1, 2 There are two major forms of LC disease: nonsmall cell LC …

A new non-invasive and potentially inexpensive frontier in the diagnosis of cancer relies on
the detection of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in exhaled breath samples. Breath can …

The analysis of volatile organic compounds in exhaled breath samples represents a new
frontier in medical diagnostics because it is a noninvasive and potentially inexpensive way …

The analysis of volatile compounds is an efficient method to appraise information about the
chemical composition of liquids and solids. This principle is applied to several practical …

This Review presents a concise, but not exhaustive, didactic overview of some of the main
concepts and approaches related to “volatolomics”—an emerging frontier for fast, risk‐free …

Breath analysis is a young field of research with great clinical potential. As a result of this
interest, researchers have developed new analytical techniques that permit real-time …

Non-invasive disease monitoring on the basis of volatile breath markers is a very attractive
but challenging task. Several hundreds of compounds have been detected in exhaled air …