METAIRIE, La. — Louisiana has one of the highest rates of liver cancer in the country. Some doctors estimate it is 50 percent higher than the national average.
But now there is new hope for patients with a first-of-its-kind, noninvasive treatment, and this area is among the first using it.
Louise Jeter spent her career as a teacher helping students learn to read. Around 13-years ago, she had her routine screening colonoscopy, and it’s good she did. The doctor found something very rare and called her…