India, Dec. 17 -- A team of researchers in the United Kingdom has achieved a major breakthrough by discovering a technique for the discovery and real-time tracking of lung cancer. A unique blood test known as the Fourier Transform Infrared (FT-IR) microspectroscopy detected a single lung cancer cell in a patient's blood, paving the way for future use of this technology.

This technique uses advanced infrared scanning technology and computer analysis to trace chemical clues of cancer cells. The researchers involved in this project belonged to three institutions - University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust, Keele University, and Loughborough University, and their study was published in Applied Spectroscopy.

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