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Cancer, how it works and how it is judged

FDG-PET

A radioactive sugar that gets stuck in any cell burning glucose fast. Cancer does; so do the white cells around an infection, which is how a worm's cyst reads as a tumor on the scan.

Filed under Method Constellation Cancer, how it works and how it is judged Status Published

Investigation 001

What the Slide Cannot Say

Three parasites cause cancer. Nobody is checking for a fourth.

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