Breast cancer patients in California and Michigan who participated in studies of their disease now find themselves facing a different problem: because of a device used during surgery done for the study, the women now have hundreds of particles of the heavy metal tungsten lodged in their breast tissue and chest muscles, reports The New York Times' Denise Grady.
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