1. Stomach Cancer

As we said earlier, stomach cancer can be the cause of your halitosis. Stomach cancer screening isn’t a part of your routine checkup in the US, because the current method of endoscopy is quite invasive. The future of medicine is always looking to reduce risk and increase comfort, so a solution to that might be here soon. A breath-test called nanoarray analysis might soon make our lives a lot easier. It identifies certain compounds in your breath that are linked to stomach cancer.

A small study of 484 people conducted in Israel using the nanoarray analysis found that 98% of the people the test diagnosed with stomach cancer hadn’t even started treatment yet! This means it detected the cancer in its earliest stage, which would make it easier to treat. A larger, more comprehensive trial of it is ongoing in Europe, and the results are looking hopeful to using breath analysis to screen for such diseases.