CancerCompass message board discussion started by Harvsfru on 4/13/2008 http://www.cancercompass.com/message-board/message/all,23027,0.htm Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Thank you for your caring thoughts about my husband and for your information.I don't know which is worse, radiation or chemo - presumably radiation because as several of you have pointed out, it has progressive and lasting negative affects; whereas, chemo therapy is obviously very degrading as well but as I understand, the body can re-generate itself and eventually repair the damaged cells.I just watched a 60-minutes segment about cancer research - The Kanzius Machine - the patient is injected with metal nanno-particles which attach themselves to cancer cells, they are then heated up via radio waves and the cancer cells are killed...  The research is being done at U. of Pittsburg and MD Anderson... but no human trials for, I think they said four years.  Regarding Avastin.  My husband is a medicare patient through an HMO and not part of a clinical trial and he's getting Avastin.  I don't know how Medicare can deny payment for one patient and not another.Harvsfru  Harvsfru Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT