Author of the article: The Whig-Standard Publishing date: Jun 25, 2021 • 14 hours ago • 2 minute read • Christopher Mueller, lead author of a new study that looks at a new method to help detect metastatic breast cancer. Mueller is the principal investigator, Division of Cancer Biology and Genetics, Queen's Cancer Research Institute and Professor of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences and Pathology and Molecular Medicine, Queen's University. Supplied photo Photo by Queen's University /supplied photo Article content KINGSTON – A team of researchers at Queen’s University has helped develop a new, cost-effective cancer detection and characterization method, based on the presence of circulating tumour DNA in the blood called mDETECT (methylation DETEction of Circulating Tumour DNA).