I'd like to modify my suggestion a bit: I am having a hard time visualizing the cancer, not having an exact picture of it, of J.U.'s throat, or even of J.U. himself. Would it be more effective if we were to focus our energies to his spirit and let J.U. direct them as needed? Kat, Micca, you guys know a lot more about this kind of thing than I do (I tried helping my brother fight his stomach cancer in this way, but then I could easily visualize him and I had a pretty good idea of where his cancer was and how large it was. My brother was working for a while with a therapist who used such visualization therapy, but I don't think Dave had any real belief in this kind of power--I think he spent most of his energy in the last months of his life trying to prepare himself--and his family--for his death.)

--seed