Is my chemo working? Scans may give faster answer
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090304/ap_on_he_me/med_chemotherapy_scans"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/img.news.yahoo.com/util/anysize/130,http%3A%2F%2Fd.yimg.com%2Fa%2Fp%2Fap%2F20090304%2Fcapt.d8d30df6035e44bb993f3de73877c8bd.chemotherapy_scans_ny361.jpg?v=2" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="Lung cancer patient Mike Stevens poses in his La Jolla, Calif. home Monday, March 2, 2009. When Stevens, 48, learned his lungs were riddled with cancer, it took only a week to start chemotherapy-but six weeks to find out if it was doing any good. New types of PET scans may answer that agonizing question in days, instead of weeks. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)" border="0" /></a>AP - When Mike Stevens learned his lungs were riddled with cancer, it took only a week to start chemotherapy — but six weeks to find out if it was doing any good. You're going through all this suffering and stuff and you want to know, am I going to survive? Is this stuff working? said Stevens, 48, of La Jolla, Calif. Your whole life is in sort of a limbo.</p><br clear="all"/>

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