"Doctors running souped-up MRI machines may now be able to predict outcomes for chemotherapy -- before they prescribe the caustic treatment to their patients with cancer. "

I really hope this, or something like this, will be used routinely in the future. Chemotherapy is a very crude attempt at killing cancer. Its like saying, "Hey, we are going to give you something very toxic to your body. We are hoping it will kill the cancer before it kills you. Good luck!" Hopefully in the future, we can circumvent chemo entirely and use something more cell specific, rather than something that kills any dividing cells in the body. For now, to be able to test to see whether the chemo will work or not on a patient-specific basis is a very good thing.

Wired News: Specialized Scan Could Nix Chemo