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Hope that i have enough time -- [ inaudible ] i hope i have a chance. >> today, jack hill is going to see the prison doctor. concerning a lesion on his face that hill believes could be cancer. >> its scary. its scary. especially, you know, you start getting a little age on you, you start seeing things like this, i wonder where its going to lead. this -- its kind of scary. >> judging from the appearance of the thing, and the time line and everything, i -- and the location, im going to say that lo...

>> when we gave hill a camera to share personal feelings in his cell, we learned why mortality has been on his mind lately. >> see that right there? yeah. >> dont know what that is. its really scary. blood on the collar of my coat. on my bed sheet. washcloth. towel. you see. i got something popping up here on my face. think its probably skin cancer. so well see. its something new, anyway, huh? >> a prison nurse has examined the lesion on hills face and has made an appointment for him to see a do...

Be coming to an end. mchellon expects that any day now he will be released from confinement and transferred to a general population unit. >> open population is, you got a lot more privileges, a lot more room to move around and do things. you dont have so many restrictions against you. i can go outside of the dorm and walk along without having the chaperone and cuffs on me. i dont have to be supervised continually. >> the downside is leaving parker behind. >> i dont want him to go. at the same ti...

By that i mean get in to -- i hope that i have enough time -- [ inaudible ] i hope i have a chance. >> today, jack hill is going to see the prison doctor. concerning a lesion on his face that hill believes could be cancer. >> its scary. its scary. especially, you know, you start getting a little age on you, you start seeing things like this, i wonder where its going to lead. this -- its kind of scary. >> judging from the appearance of the thing, and the time line and everything, i -- and the loc...

>> so, sanjay, when we heard the news, it was sad news, that president carter had brain cancer. this less than four months ago. many people, myself included, may have thought that it was likely the end. so how is it possible now in such a short period of time especially given his age that hes cancer free? >> well, you know, it certainly is good news. and its probably a mix of things, jim. just a little bit of background. when he was first diagnosed he had a two-centimeter area in his liver. and ...

They have it. then it can become a disaster. if you dont know you have it, you cant get the treatment. >> the bigger question is, how do you get it? everyone thinks about the sexual part. but you can get this also from contaminated needles if youre a drug abuser. this can also be in your semen that can live there. you can also get it not just from vaginal intercourse but from oral and anal. so you have to really protect yourself and wear condoms and that protection. >> quickly, you mentioned sem...

Much of my family, i start thinking about mortality in here. i really dont want to die in prison, okay? although its a very real possibility that i may, because were not guaranteed tomorrow. >> when we gave hill a camera to share personal feelings in his cell, we learned why mortality has been on his mind lately. >> see that right there? yeah. thats scary right there. blood on the corner of my coat, the bed sheet. washcloth, towel. i got something popping up here on my face. i think its probably...

Have developed a father and son type relationship, it may soon be coming to an end. mchellon expects that any day now he will be released from confinement and transferred to a general population unit. >> open population is, you got a lot more privileges, a lot more room to move around and do things. you dont have so many restrictions against you. i can go outside of the dorm and walk along without having the chaperone and cuffs on me. i dont have to be supervised continually. >> the downside is ...

Optimism that he will do well with this treatment. >> well, doctor, something else i found difficult to understand, so they found a spot on his liver, right, and now they found melanoma in his brain. so, you know, the liver and the brain are far apart. how does that happen? >> well, lets also understand that melanoma is a skin cancer, and usually we can see a lesion on the skin thats a primary lesion. as the president pointed out, there was no visible lesion that suggested where this cancer actu...

The brain with older technology we may never even found. by removing the lesion with focused radiation on the brain lesions, doing well with the type of treatment being offered. >> when doctors perform this very focused radiation on those four different spots, two mm which is very tiny but because they are so tiny, up can they eradicate them? >> yes they can pinpoint them and can eradicate them but even more important is getting a form of therapy, treatment where research was started when jimmy ...