Doctors have developed a new test to measure cancer cells that break off from lung tumors and travel through the blood.
The technology could one day help physicians to better tailor cancer treatments and monitor tumors in "real time," says Daniel Haber, director of the cancer center at Massachusetts General Hospital and author of a pilot study published online in today's New England Journal of Medicine. . . .
USATODAY.com - July 2, 2008
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2008-07-02-cancer-cells_N.htm?csp=34
