How To Invent a Cancer Patient?

(Followed from rule-2 of chapter-1)

Letus understand, when a doctor refers to a patient as stage I, II, III or IV cancer, what do they mean? Stage I: The cancer is localized to a small area and hasn’t spread to lymph nodes or other tissues. Stage II: The cancer has grown, but it hasn’t spread. Stage III: The cancer has grown larger and has possibly spread to lymph nodes or other tissues. Stage IV: The cancer has spread to other organs or areas of the body. It should be noted that the decrease of stages is equivalent to the decrease in the spread of malignant cells over the affected area. There is a Stage Zero also for those people like you and me.

How does the doctor discover that the cancer has spread to how many parts of a body? There is a popular test that is considered very reliable in the medical circles – which is called the Positron Emission Tomography or PET Scan.

Now, let us discover what a PET scan is and how does this become the basis of detecting cancer. This is something you need to importantly understand for knowing the entire game around cancer industry.