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New Device Measures Lung Cancer Cells

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Doctors have developed a new device to measure cancer cells that break off from lung tumors and travel through the blood. It can also determine when the cancer cells become resistant to drug treatments. The technology was developed at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.  A clinical trial using the device was published in the New England Journal of Medicine. VOA's Deborah Block has more.