Looking Forward from a Year of Scans

Sometimes it's nice to take a break from news about technological advances and just look at the human factor in world medicine. That was done recently by a lifestyle writer for The Frederick News Post. She shared her story about spending a year with a cancer diagnosis. And in the end she shared that even though she hasn't eradicated the cancer, she's able to recognize the ways that she was lucky in the last year. Among the many things that she mentioned as far as her year of medical treatments were a number of different preventive imaging scans. Of course, she already knows that she has the cancer. But these scans give doctors additional information to prevent further damage from the disease. (For example, it has recently been found that MRI screening after a breast cancer diagnosis can significantly alter the appropriate course of treatment.) Scans mentioned in the woman's first-person article included MRI scans, CT scans, bone density scans and one full body scan. She's still working with her doctors to find out what stage of treatment and recovery she is at. The hope that she expressed at the end of the article was that she can reduce the number of scans she gets this year because the cancer will be gone. But even with that in mind, she was able to express thankfulness for the little things in life. And that is something inspirational that only a human-focused story can tell us. Question of the Day: Which stories do you prefer - information about medicine or information about people? photo link