Roger Smoyer, a 74-year old retired Los Angles police officer that has lived in Ramona since 1975, found out two years ago that he had lung cancer.  Married for 52 years to a cancer survivor, he has four grown children and seven grandchildren.

When Smoyer was originally diagnosed with lung cancer, doctors found it necessary to remove his entire left lung.  Unfortunately when they removed it, they found five cancerous lymph nodes in his other lung, forcing him to undergo both chemotherapy and radiation treatment.

He seemed to respond to this treatment until May of this year when a PET scan showed that another tumor had developed.  This time, due to the location near his aorta, doctors told him it was inoperable.  And because he had already received his lifetime dose of radiation and chemotherapy, he felt the diagnosis was a death sentence.

That is until his oncologist referred him for CyberKnife treatment. In June he went for three treatments over three days, which he said was a cakewalk compared to his previous treatments.