May 18, 2022 Study reveals imaging approach with potential to detect lung cancer earlier, at the cellular level . by University of Pennsylvania Scan of a patient in the Penn Medicine-led study with a lung nodule, circled in red. Credit: Penn Medicine Researchers at the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania have found a way to identify lung cancer at the cellular level in real time during a biopsy, offering promise in the ability to detect the ...