FREEPORT - Mustering what strength he had left, Mike Lindey stepped onto the scale. Looking toward his feet, his stomach churned with nausea and his mind swirled with despair. He had lost another three pounds.

What would have been a success story for most Weight Watchers' clientele was certainly a defeat for the once-robust 62-year-old man. He had lost 40 pounds in only a matter of a few months. His secret? The toxic levels of chemotherapy treatment that was battling the bladder cancer he had been diagnosed with back in January 1995.

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