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Ep ha enhances the activity of the anti-immune system, and this is medicine that's been approved in the united states. there are similar ones that have also been tested in europe. my doctors -- and they'll also continue to scan other parts of my body with mri and c.a.t. scan and p.e.t. scan to see if and where the melanoma originated and so that will be an ongoing examination of my body for the next number of months i presume, if it goes on that long. dr. david lawson is a special tis on melanoma and dr. curren who is here is a specialist on radiation treatment and he's in

Aneurysm. you'll get a c.a.t. scan for this. this p.e.t. scan study is promising. but i'm not sure it will change the way we practice. it's only about 80 patients in the study. it was accurate in about 90%. we still have a long way to go for p.e.t. scan to come in this field. we use p.e.t. scan in our field for kidney cancers, and 50/50 can guess whether there's a cancer in the body. for bone imaging it would work. >> what does it show that a c.a.t. scan doesn't? >> they're seeing where the aggregate of the cells, sometimes with this kind of plaque formation you would have inflammation. it det...

Limping. we got home from europe. they did a p.e.t. scan and we found out that his pelvis was involved, the whole left side of his pelvis was involved, cancer was everywhere. >> doctors delivered the news he had just months to live. >> we had to talk through that. how do you do this? how do you live while you're dying? ♪ >> zach turned to his guitar for answers. last fall, laura was tidying up the house when she stumbled upon a piece of paper that struck a chord. >> i came a cross of paper and unfolded it. it said clouds on top. he walked in the door and i said, did you write this? he said, ...

Diagnosis and the sickening rou rounds of chemotherapy, zach remained hopeful. >> he was determined he was going to do the things he wanted to do, despite his but tragically for zach, they didn't. >> when we went on our trip to europe, i noticed that he was limping. we got home from europe. they did a p.e.t. scan and we found out that his pelvis was involved. cancer was everywhere. >> doctors delivered the news he had just months to live. >> we had to talk through that. how do you do this? how do you live while you're dying? >> zach turned to his guitar for answers. last fall, laura was tidy...

Couldn't bend over and tie his shoes anymore, it was that bad. finally, the physical therapist said it was not working. you need an mri. >> that is when doctors discovered a tumor in his left hip. his mysterious pain was caused by a rare form of bone cancer. >> a small amount of adults are diagnosed in the united states with this disease. >> despite the shattering diagnosis and the sickening rounds of chemotherapy, zach remained hopeful. >> he was determined he was going to do the things he wanted to do, despite his cancer. >> we had a lot of hope. there were a lot of treatments that could hav...