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Did a pet scan and we found that his pelvis was -- 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 saw a piece of paper that struck a chord. >> i said did you write this? he said, yeah, i did. i said do you have music for it? >> is this his phone? >> this is his phone. he pulled his phone out of his pocket and i recorded it. do you want...

Increasing and he said chemo was in my future and i wasn't sure if it was going to be in december or january. i tried to get some answers from him to commit to when exactly. it's usually after a test, a p.e.t. scan. but i'm just not sure if i will have the instruments, you know, that with him -- he actually said i wouldn't have him as a doctor possibly after the new year. >> and how does that make you feel, maria? >> it was very upsetting because i've had this doctor for four years and i trust him. >> yeah. and maria, has anyone reached out to help you since we last spoke? >> honestly, not unt...

Injection to look for troubles but now they found another application? >> that's right. a pet scan or a pet c.t. scan which is the imaging modality that's been used has been used in cancer and bone imaging. now we can actually pinpoint areas in heart arteries that are apt to rupture and cause heart attacks. jon: and it's not actually the artery that would rupture. it's the clump of plaque that gets attached to the side wall of ab artery. i think we have an animation of how it works or what it looks like. it's the plaque that ruptures and that can clog up the entire artery. >> that's right. und...

This tracer goes to areas where we have this inflammation. so that way, we are able to determine, hey, here's an artery that is very likely to rupture. it's sort of like identifying a time bomb. jon: so what do you do then if you see that, if you -- if this material shows you where the trouble spot is, do you get a stint? what do you do? >> that's exactly what i would suggest doing. if this becomes a reality that we use this every day in our patients, if i had a patient with a pet scan that showed a plaque getting ready to rupture, i would take that person to the heart catheterization laborato...

To raise money for one of his friends who had cancer. i saw his overwhelming response. i was at the hospital a few days after dan got diagnosed and i created a website on give gord.com. people kept sending it out to people they knew and as of today we've raised almost $40,000 which is shocking has that so many people care. >> that's a drop in the bucket. >> it sound like a lot of money but as dan said on the radio show, $14,000 is one pet scan. i think we figured out out. one night in the hospital costs $8,000. >> so they're not going to repeal obama care so on january 1st your brother is not ...