New research out of Britain this week as researchers there stated that they have identified immune system proteins that may end up becoming early warning indicators of impending lung cancer.

Prevention and testing are generally keys to surviving any ailment, but those two terms are especially important in cancer cases. The ability to have an operable tumor or body-wide cancer spreading are in two completely difference universes -- and early detection is a large key in many cases.

The research centered on the detection of several 'autoantibodies,' which are used by the immune system as a precursor to certain bodily ailments. Researchers found that very high levels of at least one autoantibody were found in nearly 80 percent of the blood samples from lung cancer patients who participated in the study.