

Breast Cancer Survivors Fly Fishing For Recovery
Cle Elum — This fly fishing trip down the Cle Elum and Yakima River is more than just a one day adventure, it’s the end of a long journey.Amy Clise, Breast Cancer survivor says, “This is something totally new.”Clise has never been fly fishing but she’s up for the challenge. She’s part of a group of women spending the day on the river as part of Northwest Hospital’s breast cancer treatment. Charles Cooper, fly fishing guide says, “Its more the adventure of going down the river


New Technology Aims To Better Treat Cancer
SEATTLE – When Gene Montgomery was diagnosed with prostate cancer, he knew he didn’t want to go through the pain and recovery of surgery. Thanks to Seattle’s newest technology, he didn’t have to. “It was so easy going, you wondered if the machine was doing any good or not. It was that easy,” laughed Montgomery. Swedish Medical Center is now using what’s called a CyberKnife. The $4 million robotic arm was the first of its kind in the Pacific Northwest. It sends out precise dos