What We Get Wrong About Cancer
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- "Curing cancer," explained.
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We’re not looking for a “cure for cancer” anymore. Cancer is hundreds of diseases, so we’re really in a multi front fight against all of them. Cancer is a problem for us today in a way it wasn’t for previous generations. But, luckily, we also have more and more ways to fight back.
I started this episode with endless questions: What is cancer? What causes it? How do we treat cancer? What are the symptoms? Why are some cancers easier to treat than others? Why is cancer so hard to cure? Why do so many people die of cancer?
What I found is an incredible, complex, inspiring effort to treat and stop an insidious killer. In this video, we dive deep into how we treat cancer today. But I also found that we may not be helping the greatest number of people we can.
In this episode of Huge If True, I want to make the case that while we have made enormous strides in the fight against cancer we have also largely ignored one of the single best ways to save the most lives.
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Chapters:
00:00 Why do so many people get cancer?
02:06 What is cancer?
03:02 How do we treat cancer?
03:44 What is chemotherapy?
04:42 What is immunotherapy?
05:22 Thank you Riverside
06:27 How do we save more lives?
07:47 Does early detection save lives?
09:23 How do we detect cancer?
10:45 What are the downsides of cancer tests?
11:38 Why early cancer detection matter?
12:42 Can we cure cancer?
Sources and additional reading:
- Lifetime Risk of Developing or Dying From Cancer, American Cancer Association www.cancer.org/healthy/cancer...
- Crunching Numbers: What Cancer Screening Statistics Really Tell Us, National Cancer Institute www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/s...
- Cancer, Our World In Data ourworldindata.org/cancer
- A New Deal For Cancer, collected essays (including by Greg Simon) www.publicaffairsbooks.com/ti...
- The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, Siddhartha Mukherjee www.simonandschuster.com/book...
- How does cancer spread through the body? TED-Ed • How does cancer spread...
- Have We Discovered a Cure for Cancer... on Accident? SciShow • Have We Discovered a C...
- What is cancer? City of Hope • What is cancer? What c...
- Why Don’t We All Have Cancer? VSauce • Why Don't We All Have ...
- Why Blue Whales Don't Get Cancer, Kurzgesagt • Why Blue Whales Don't ...
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Typically here I’d do a “joke down low” - a joke with a key word you can use in the comments. But… well… for obvious reasons, a joke about cancer didn’t seem right. So, how about we just use the word “check” in the comments to tell me you’re a real one :)
I got a full medical in Tokyo, Japan just because it was cheap, it was around $200. This medical included an ultrasound. They discovered a 7cm tumor on my left kidney. I hand absolutely ZERO symptoms, no pain, no blood in my urine, and normal blood work. Long story short, I hurried back to the US and had a radical nephrectomy (kidney removed). After pathology reports came back, it turns out it was stage 3 cancer. I will start immunotherapy in a few weeks. Apparently this was growing fast. And I think about why I got the test done in Tokyo - because it was "cheap". I am fortunate, and I wish this type of tests were accessible to everyone.
Look for a meme: ‘The inventors of Ventilators and Chemotherapy, have had special monuments built for them in HELL!’ Go figure…….
I hope healthcare becomes cheaper in the US.
Wishing you a soon recovery, thank you for sharing your story with us.
It's one of the biggest reasons why universal healthcare is cheaper and has better outcomes. If you make it easy and cheap to go to the Dr you get the "cheap and easy" treatment that has the better outcomes. If you were somewhere without it and waited until you had symptoms it'd be a much different story.
@@zyeborm let's just say that I had a CT scan in Tokyo for just over $200. When I returned to California, I had a CT scan and the hospital billed my insurance for $17,000. How is that even possible?? For my operation, I looked at the possibility of doing it in Japan, it would have cost me $,8000 (I didn't have insurance in Japan). Here in the US, the hospital billed my insurance around $150,000!!! And by the way had I done this in Japan, it would be 10 days in the hospital with amazing food. Here, they tried to get me out the day after the operation. I ended up staying three nights. Again, I'm fortunate I have good insurance here in the US, but not everyone does.
I'm not usually one for over sharing but I've just finished my first week of chemotherapy and I won't lie I'm scared of how it's affecting me, but your enthusiasm for the topic helped put my mind at ease. So thank you, you have no idea how much I needed this today
I'm sorry you're going through this hard stuff but you're so strong I mean like hey you completed the first week! It is hard and stressful as hell but you're gonna get through this.. Rooting for you! You got this
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You got this bro, I assure you that you're gonna get through this and it all be alright❤️❤️❤️
You are strong, remember that your mind is stronger than everything, so practice ways to cure what you can with thoughts, manifestation and positive energy. So your way through this becomes easier, happier and it might even cure you faster, I believe you can control many aspects of your body with your mind (it takes time, believing and practice)
I really hope you are healthier soon
Wow, 5 years ago I had colorectal cancer at age 60, later found out it was stage 3c, several trips to the bathroom gave me the warnings and it was confirmed a few weeks later after the colonoscopy. I still have the endoscope pic, it was a monster. A few months later I had the radiation, surgery and chemo over the entire year and as of today I appear to be free after another cat scan. I'm eternally grateful to possibly hundreds of care givers and my team of surgeons, oncology and chemo people. I do have some post issues with the surgery and chemo, but that's a small price to pay for being alive. I likely would have died in 2019 had I not had treatment.
Look for a meme: ‘The inventors of Ventilators and Chemotherapy, have had special monuments built for them in HELL!’ Go figure…….
how you doing now?
How is everything now?
I also had no risk factors until I had tremendous back pain. It turns out I have metastatic cancer that started in my lung (I’m a nonsmoker) and spread to my axial-skeletal system. I’m 43 and have stage 4 cancer. This video is very impactful.
Wish you the best
I loveeeee cancer. Hope you're treated well and I'll see ya on the other side brother. I am stage 4 pancreatitis. Funny thing is... I'm trying to go. God bless cancer
frankfifilifestyle may I ask your diet before that and work etc if that’s ok??
@@allanm2064bro what? 💀
I am a stage 4 throat cancer survivor. I was diagnosed in September 2009. I've had numerous MRIs, CAT scans and PET scans. My treatment included 3 of the 4 types: poison, burn and melt. It was intense torture for 3 months but I was finally declared cancer free after a year. There were times during the treatment I wished I died from the cancer; it would have been less painful. But here I am even though my survival is considered rare.
Why am I telling you this? I recently became a subscriber of your videos because they are thorough and thoughtful. I had no idea you would touch on the subject of cancer. I would like to contribute some perspective from someone who has "been there". Your video mentions how you found out you don't have cancer and you seemed relieved. When I found out I had cancer my first reaction was, "what do we do now?". I had no idea how much the treatment would change my life. The treatment left me with the inability to swallow. I cannot eat food or drink fluids. I can speak but with much difficulty. 13 years into my recovery and my life is no longer the same.
So what? Why cry in your comments section? I wanted to add my experience to this topic. Current treatment for cancer has short and long term effects that are often downplayed and people are not aware. And to your point, my life might not be extended by a significant amount. But it is nothing like it was before cancer. I struggle with my post treatment conditions. But what my cancer diagnosis and treatment also gave me was a new way to find happiness. When I was faced with the real probability of dying I saw the opportunity to find a good new life.
I wanted to say that surviving cancer, more than anything, changes your perspective and life. It changes the things you do everyday and the way you approach them.
So, is there a cure for cancer? For me, the cure was letting go of the horror of the treatment and accepting the changes it gave me with gratitude.
Thank you for your story
Welcome... may you have a good life after your marvelous experience
Thank you for sharing your story.
Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for sharing your story.
My friends dad was saved by early detection of his cancer, ironically from scans to make sure he was not injured from his motorcycle accident. Its also notable that he had pancreatic cancer, which unless caught basically instantly, its fatal, check the chart she shows, its nuts. So getting in that motorcycle accident saved his life.
Ironic, that an accident saved his life. Thank God.
well thats not the same thing as preventive check since they were not looking for cancer. Still nice to hear tho.
pancreatic cancer is not fatal. treatment is
@@methylmercury Totally untrue. Do you really believe that pancreatic cancer is not fatal?
@@Docjonel only if that's what you choose to believe.
8:33 I had to stage 1A ovarian cancer and my survival rate was about 92% the only reason my cancer was caught so early is because I am a minor. I was 15 and doctors estimated that my tumour had started growing at the end of February, which makes a lot of sense that’s when my biggest symptoms started. I started chemo on 2 May I found out I had cancer about a month and a half after the tumour started developing. I’ve heard stories about women not finding out they had ovarian cancer until five years after the tour started developing my tumour was the size of a large watermelon and weighed 3.4 pounds when it came out of my body that was after doing chemo. I probably would have been dead by then. I’m 16 now and I am officially one year into remission.
I wish a long abd healthy life to you 💙💛
hope all is well and wish a happy and healthy life to you. my sister had an early stage ovarian cancer and when the doctors found out about it, I prayed to the lord every day that I would trade whatever I have just so that I don’t lose her. My sister has been cancer free for more than 15 years now. I’m so thankful ❤
I was with my mom when she got the call from her doctor. That moment was awful. Miraculously they caught it early, removed the tumor, and did a few months of radiation. She just got her 5 year scan and it was clean! Sometimes I forget she’s a cancer survivor. But then I remember and I get so anxious about the odds of it coming back. It seems like all the moms of the kids I grew up with have had breast cancers at some point, and it doesn’t get any easier. Every year we’re making casseroles for someone else, you know?
It's been 8 months now that I was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. I was cured with chemotherapy just a month ago. This video made me appreciate all the efforts humanity has made that helped me cure it. Thank you for making this video and spreading the much needed awareness about the topic.
Yikes! I hope it stays away and you can put this scary part of your life behind you.
@@sander_bouwhuis Thank you! I hope that too.
@@pande_vatsal congratulations on successful battle soldier. Stay healthy, don’t forget intermittent fasting and turmeric.
@@Kathakathan11 Thank you! Turmeric in a glass of hot milk is in my daily diet now.
Where did you see? Doctor name? Any contact details?
Someone else may have mentioned this but there is a fundamental problem that has to be addressed when considering early detection: Bayes' theorem. I'm surprised it didn't get mentioned, as it is central to understanding what medical test results mean. I learned about it from one of the best lectures I had in medical school. Basically, the prior probability of a patient having the condition being tested for has a profound effect on the positive predictive value of a test. We all have an inherent understanding of this idea, as the person giving the lecture illustrated (with an scenario that bears little resemblance to patients and no resemblance to how actual patent care is or was practiced, so please do not take it as such).
There is a patient speaking a language we didn't know and we were having trouble getting a translator for. We were able to get the idea that she thought she had syphilis. So we ran a VDRL test, which is an indirect test for syphilis that can be positive for other reasons. It was positive, and the lecturer asked do we treat? Some yes, some no.
He continued the scenario: a very confident med student who has been learning the language needed shows up and interviews the patient. They come back and say that the patient works as a prostitute and has unprotected sex with several men a day. Now everyone says treat.
But before we discharge the patient, the official translator shows up and just shakes their head at the med student. You see, she's not a sex worker, she's studying to be a nun at the convent in town, has never had any sexual contact with anyone, but had a sexual dream she thinks gave her syphilis. Now do we treat? Everyone says no.
Same test, three different prior probabilities of having the condition, 3 wildly different conclusions. This concept is critical for early detection, because we are often in a situation similar to the positive VDRL with no data on patient history. But we want to be more like one of the situations with more data. Preferably the one with correct information! Successful early detection programs depend on addressing Bayes' theorum..
When prior probability of the condition being present is low, even a very sensitive and specific test given to a random population, most positive test results will be false positives (a type one error in the lingo, think telling 65yr old man he's pregnant). Running the numbers with Bayes' theorem can tell you how many of them. I ran the numbers on a very accurate drug screen (99% sensitive, 99% specific) and based prior probability of a random person being a cocaine user, found that there were 9 false positives for every true one.This is the bane of all screening tests.
When the follow up is easy, cheap, with little or no risk that is not a big problem. When the follow is is expensive, invasive, and carries a non-negligible risk of 'therapeutic misadventures' (i.e. harmful follow-ups which are only harmful followups when something goes wrong) it is a big problem. With cancer, the problem is that by the time a tumor has grown to a 1cm^3 pea size and easy to see on scans, it has gone through 90% of it's life-span. So we really need to detect it before this time.
Often our followup involves biopsy or similar sample acquisition that is low but not no risk, and is aimed at a small target we may not hit (thus risking a type II error, think telling woman in labor, she's not pregnant). So we have to get the risk of type I errors down before follow up and risk of type II errors down on follow up down.
And we have to do it while also avoiding risky or invasive ways of doing iyt. As alludde to, but not quite said, current methods of screening identify a lot of stuff that looks like cancer but isn't. Simply seeing a nodule of 1cm^3 is pretty common on a full body MRI. Almost all of these are not cancer.
To be blunt, it is not a matter of using what we have now more often We need to apply more of what we have learned about cancer biology and oncogenesis to create tests that are not 99% sensitive and 99% specific, but 99.99% and beyond. And ways to turn MRIs looking for masses, into MRI's or other scanning technologies detecting the molecular markers of cancer even when there is no detectable mass yet. Along with this we also need, at least on followup, to detect markers for the potential for metastatic spread. This helps to ID those cancers that are or are not likely to progress.
That's hard, but it also means that the quest for more effective early detection looks a lot more like cancer treatment in terms of the glory to be obtained and knowledge base needed than it appears at first.Thjis helps create motivation to create such tests, but it also means more money and costs. And is another hornet nest of issues.
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You drug screen analogy would suggest that they shouldn't be admissible as solid evidence in DWI cases and such. 🤔🤓🍻
Yes but detection is highly profitable and treatment even more profitable regardless of the best outcome for the patient.. do they care? Probably not. It’s a corporation all that matters is profits and shareholders like any other. There are plenty of people who do care. Just not the corps as a whole if you ask me.
@@alsaunders7805 no because the drug screen example is a hypothetical situation where everyone (or a random person) gets the test. For DWI situations, you have extra information (that they were driving erratically), which gets to the heart of the entire comment.
He’s just making the point to show that screening everyone, even with very good tests, is not cost effective when the diseases being looked for are uncommon.
Sensible. Thank you.
Thank you for taking the time to put all this into words.
I heard, our body is fighting cancer every day. And normally our immune system does a good job. It’s when these cancer cells slip through our defenses, that we notice it.
They don't just slip through our defenses, they co-opt them. Most tumors are surrounded by many immune cells, such as tumor-associated macrophages and regulatory T cells. The problem is the tumor has managed to instruct these immune cells to dampen the local immune response, meaning the tumor cells are not attacked.
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@@msmrreckoning You are so in tune. If people only knew the power within them they could cure anything without help of any other, except the power within. Knowing is different than believing. Believing is the stepping stone to knowing. You don't know until you try and if it didn't work that does not mean it won't. There is only one who stands in the way and we usually think it is someone else rather than our self. How incorrect we are and that actually causes dis ease in the body. That alone is a cancer because it eats away at the mind. Learn to get in tune with your self and witness the mystery unfold.
@@Sakkura1 yes, the cancer cell has a receptor the tells the white blood cell I’m a good cell. Dr Allison discovered a way to block that receptor and let the immune system kill the cancer.
Yes unless tumor suppressor genes become corrupted or their activation pathways are changed. These are essentially checksum genes that control apoptosis and cellular senescence rates.
Thank you for this. I was diagnosed with squamus cell carcinoma (throat cancer) because I felt a lump in my throat. If we had MRI as part of our annual physicals it would have been found 6 months earlier. I almost died because we found it so late.
I, too, am a survivor of the same. Always glad to hear from another survivor.
I am in love with cancer. Best gf ever dude.. I have pancreatic stage four and I can't wait to leave this awful world :) god bless this curse
@@allanm2064 This really saddens me that you feel this way. I truly wish you all the best, Allan. God bless.
Hi! Chronically ill person (without cancer) here. The paternalistic bias against telling people what's going on inside their bodies so as "not to scare" a patient is SO damaging, and leads to so many delayed diagnoses across illnesses, and I am SO glad you touched on that! Reframing the way the medical system thinks about prevention and/or early detection as a whole is so, so needed. Thank you for making this. 💜
Dont you think its deliberate? If patient have stage 2 or 3 cancer, they would need to stay longer in the hospital, which mean more treatment and more money
True, but also: scared people over-react, and unnecessary treatments do harm. Like let's say that seeing something in that MRI happens 1% of the time with a certainty that it was actually cancer is 95%. These numbers are NOT the actual ones supported by data, we'll get there.
Now if everyone who's 35 is told to get one of those MRIs every 5 years, that's ~12M people under 70 (group A) a year getting one (anywhere from $24B to $240B in total depending who's scanning), with 120,000 people (group AB) getting told a year they might have cancer and 114,000 people (group ABA) finding they need to get their cancer treated, and 6000 of those people (group ABB) also getting a biopsy/minor surgery and test to find out they did not have cancer. Now those 6000 people, the biopsy also might be wrong 0.1% of the time and the creating group ABBB, 6 people who get cancer treatment, even though they didn't have it, and being biopsied has a rate of complications that we can say is 1%, (it can be higher) which includes things like infections all the way to dying maybe from the anesthesia or the infection. Now sure, THESE numbers make it look like, hey we're catching 114K (ABA) people with cancer that we can treat and it's so much more than the 60 people who didn't have cancer but get complications, actual harm, just to find out they don't have cancer, so, it's fine and dandy, probably.
But look, that ABA group that's clearly getting helped right? How much help are they getting? What's the survival rate, and furthermore how many would have found the cancer and treated it successfully later without THIS additional testing? How many are actually the kind that with THIS additional testing are successfully treated yet would not have been otherwise. It's not unknowable, but it's hard to measure without trials. And trials take time. If it turns out that actually these ABA people are 99% otherwise having the same outcome, then only 1200 people remain that were really effectively treated by THIS test; in exchange for creating the ABB group of 6000 people who... well... have some ABBB subgroup that was harmed by THIS test. It already looks less dandy right?
Then there's people's fearful reactions. Maybe you haven't heard, but some people don't want to go with careful, slow, repetitive treatments of some small cuts, some tests, maybe cutting more, testing more and finally saying yep, that whole cancer was removed. No some people might say: look I have 2 lungs, or 2 kidneys, just remove one. Others might say, hey I have cancer in one breast that needs to be removed, but what if later I get it in the other, lets just be symmetric here and double that operation. Then there's the anti-treatment fearful. They might pack up, sell everything, and spend everything assuming they have some 5 years left, avoiding follow ups, sometimes family and friends, but then, some of those people are wrong about that and never even had a cancer to treat.
So what about all these made up numbers just to illustrate a point? Well the real numbers, from some studies, don't look much better. They look worse really. EG one found that MRI's send ~9% to 10% to get biopsies, and then only with a 10% certainty. In other words 12M tests would get you not and AB group of 120,000 biopsies but 1.2M, and their ABA group of cancers to treat would be 120,000, making an ABB group of 1.08M who got biopsied and told they don't have cancer. Those vary in risk as to where the biopsy is (imagine it's riskier in your brain, heart or lungs than your tounge) but looks like complications are higher than 1%, closer to 2%, so in exchange for early intervention in 120,000 people you have ~20,000 harmed. And again, we need to figure out what size of the ABA group is getting a different outcome due to the extra test and biopsy. And if even 1% of patients in the AB group exhibit that fear-based response I brought up before, that's 12,000 more people negatively affected.
So it's not so much about keeping people purposefully in the dark as it is recognizing the impact of the edge cases of trying to get complete knowledge where it's very hard to actually get accurately.
@M_A_A_A_A_A Agreed, I'm kind of dissapointed in this video. While Cleo briefly touches upon the issue of performing all these tests on seemingly healthy patients, I get the feeling that the intended takeaway for the audience is still to pursue these things, like asking your doctor about them. That is something I cannot agree with. Current medical opinion is that the risks outweigh the benefits for healthy people doing testing for cancer. Incidentalomas are a real thing with real danger to the patient. Unfortunately, I have the feeling Cleo was carried away by these tech entrepreneurs / businessmen, without consulting enough independent experts. It's the little things like "This guy was co-inventor of modern MRI" which really irks me, as if now all of a sudden I'm supposed to trust this guy, but he has a huge financial conflict of interest which is swept under the mat. In the end, while I do think this video does bring up important points, on the whole I feel it is not correct.
I think the “bias” is against false positives. False positives lead to unnecessary treatment and all treatments carry risk - unnecessary risk, in this scenario
That’s why more testing doesn’t necessarily lead to better patient outcomes.
@M_A_A_A_A_A and @Noah Stephens - I have to say, I reject your both your premises that 'unnecessary follow ups' are 'useless and expensive' and 'cause risky treatments'.
1. Useless or Unnecessary: Testing data that is inconclusive is largely the fault of testing methods that are imprecise and technologies that not granular enough to render conclusive results. What's the solution to these challenges? MORE TESTING to enhance the technology and the experience of those who use it.
2. 'cause risky treatments': This is also false. Risky treatments are purely based on the recommendation of the Dr, and the patient, based on judgement and informed consent... so the 'risk' is one that the patient has decided is acceptable based on the educated advice of their physician. No different than the 'risk' of bungee jumping or buying a plane ticket. This leads me to wonder, what role you would have in this scenario to determine the appropriate risk others should take in their lives?
3. Expensive: ...and here, in my opinion we land at the crux of the issue. MRIs could be made less expensive and more precise, by shear economics of scale. The biomedical field doesn't profit nearly as much from catching cancer early as opposed to threatening ill people with death or expensive drugs... and the insurance industry is frankly, either too short-sighted, or too invested to buck that trend. This bias on behalf of industry leaders and hospital administrators infects the education of our medical professionals; and leads to the parroting of glib phrases like 'unnecessary testing' and 'unnecessary follow-up'.
I'm a cancer biologist and have have studied/researched & worked in the field for just over 5 years now, love this peice of content, and the effort you've put in is really great!
5 years isnt enough.
@@markb4434 your reply makes no sense whatsoever
@@cpg8000 lol, my argument is that 5 years experience is not long enough for someone to comment on
@@markb4434 Well according to your logic, you certainly shouldn't comment at all because you don't even have one day of experience with it.
@@deeharper1364 🤐👍👉😂
I got incredibly lucky that my mum and her astounding intuition decided to keep pushing for me to get a blood test after being refused several times. Turned out that i had leukemia. Emphasis on 'had', because I have since been cured of it and made a full recovery. Just a few more weeks and i would have been dead. PLEASE get tested if you feel it would be appropriate to do so
That's wildy amazing. I'm happy for you. 🙏☀️🤍
it doesnt just kill you in weeks if the doctors couldnt detect it or you could even walk, cancer doesnt spread that fast
I can’t get that call from the dr ‘you have cancer’ because I don’t go to the dr:) 😂
Two years ago, my mother - aged 64 at the time - went to her annual breast exam. As her mother had to undergo a full mastectomy around the same age, she always dreaded the day a doctor would give her a terrible diagnosis.
She came out of the radiography room to listen to the results and she felt something was wrong as the doc had a slight concerned look on his face. "There is a liiiittle spot, but I wouldn't worry about it. We should just monitor the evolution as you come by next year. 🤗".
She was not at all reassured and asked for another appointment with the chief of oncology of the hospital and more exams. Thank god she did, because by the time she got that other appointment, a little over a month after, the 'little spot' became a small lump. The oncologist booked an appointment for a sample to get surgically taken in order to determine what type of cancerous cell these were. Jump to two months later and she was in the O.R. having a raisin sized tumor removed.
She walked out with her two breast almost entirely intacts, nothing more than this lump had to be cut out thanks to her and the oncologist quick response to the initial warnings. Had she gone home trying to forget about that dreadful 'little spot', trusting the first doc in denial, she probably would have suffered the same fate as her mother and she would have been traumatised in a way no woman ever should.
Take care of yourselves and if you have good reasons to suspect something might be wrong, make sure you can rest on both ears. Otherwise, give it all you got, beat this fucker before it has the time to call your body its home.
The cancer vaccine is there. It's vitamin C
Be your own advocate 👏
If everyone did what your smart mom did oncologists would make a lot less.
sue that doctor
I am glad everything is ok, thank you for sharing❤
This is absolutely top quality content. Extremely professional, engaging, and informative. You are a true talent!
Johnny Harris vibes
@@vaibhavsati538 You think her videos are similar to Johnny Harris?
@@vaibhavsati538 sorry there isn’t a single map to be found in here
This isn’t Johnny Harris
@@AM-bj7yo 🤣🤣 True
@@NowIKnow8 I watched her video for the first time and felt like I was watching Johnny Harris's style videos
Early detection is absolutely the way to go, and developing new and cheaper detection methods is going to play such a pivotal role.
I had an oncology lecturer recently who talked about his research into using specific cancer markers and ai data analysis. The test is cheap, requires just a blood sample so is very non-intrusive, can screen for dozens of cancer types, is conducted very rapidly, and has an extremely high accuracy in preliminary trials.
It's truly groundbreaking stuff and really gives me hope!!
What about the cause? Why is that always ignored? Billions into the Genetic Project showed most Cancers are environmental over 90%..... This is evident in history (not just better detection BS) as the rate is also growing at an alarming rate in kids, also NOW in different parts of the world... If the cause and the cure are related and both profit from it, is that the reason to ignore??
I work at a company doing this. When cancer cells die they release their DNA into your blood. We can detect that DNA by sequencing genetic markers from it. The AI bit is to predict what type of cancer it is.
Keep us imformed
I’m so confused at all these medical students in the comments claiming more scanning is the answer, time and time again studies show that general scanning of non at risk patients doesn’t work, unforeseen circumstances and sheer statistics mean that you will end up treating people for cancer that don’t need it and making their lives significantly worse, cancer screening is in essence a good way to find things that never would have killed you in the first place. A basic fact of medicine is that if you do a full mri scan on somebody you will find something wrong most of the time.
Can you share more about your lecturer research? I genuinely want to know more about this kind of research
I agree with your ending statement. My dad died from prostate cancer, they only found it once it had metastasized all over his body. But he went to yearly health check-ups - the issue is that his doctor never did the relevant blood tests (PSA) nor send him to a urologist for a check-up. My dad completely relied on his doctor to tell him if something was needed, that's why he went for yearly check-ups after all. The doctor apologized in the end, but it's not like it changed anything.
I've since learnt that you sadly can't trust doctors to always tell you what you need (whether specific check-ups, blood tests, vaccines or whatever it is), you need to figure it out yourself and make sure you get those. I now look up guidelines in my country (and cross-check with those of other countries) and am proactive in following those.
Agreed. Doctors are human. They make mistakes or overlook things that should be the focus. Always double check if you feel something is wrong even though it goes against your doctor's advice.
I spoke with a surgeon who cut out cancer from someone I love’s kidney. He said to me, “everyone should get themselves a scan every 10 years, I would start at 40. Just make up a reason to why you need a full body MRI.” I’ll never forget that and am going to take his advice.
Good to know
I don't agree with this. It's far more complex than this.
@@creativesource3514 you are entitled to your opinion. But I’ll take the oncology surgeons advice. Early detection is our best weapon in the fight against cancer, there’s no denying that. So you need to detect before a problem arises.
@@robertacierno2803 I am an oncology surgeon. I specialise in Head and Neck cancer and reconstruction in London for the last 25 years since medical school. It's a very complex topic. Also for one even if you do a whole body MRI, then why do it every ten years? Why not every year? Why not every 6 months? Will it show up incidental findings? Can it show up every early stage cancer. Is there lead and lag time bias? I mean I've spent a long time thinking about it and there are pros and cons. Better to really evaluate family history, do genetic tests and don't delay seeing a doctor for minor symptoms even though they will mostly be benign. I'm not being arrogant about it, I do t have all the answers.
@@creativesource3514 I completely understand and agree. I think he was saying to scan every so often, in addition to any signs or symptoms, obviously. Not only every 10. And yes, he picked an arbitrary amount of time, I think saying “at minimum.”
Glad to see an oncologist is debating here on the CZcams comments section. Not just the usual rubes and nut jobs. Keeps it interesting.
I've recently finished a PhD in MRI uses for cancer treatment and diagnosis, in one of the world's most prominent and best-funded hospitals. I am now working as an engineer in a totally different field, just because I couldn't deal with the uncertainty of research funding, and so did 90% of my former colleagues. I believe governments (yes with an s) can have a huuuuuuge influence on how fast we beat cancer by controlling how much funding they want to allocate to research. Be sure to start voting for candidates who are sensible about this issue!
Government will find a way to screw it up.
Intelligence without wisdom is like a boat without water. And nothing illustrates this fact better than this disease. The cure is known, but it is so simple and inexpensive that it will never be officially acknowledged. One clinic in Arizona uses it with a 90% success rate against all forms and stages of cancer. Because, all cancers have one thing in common: cancer grows ONLY in an ACIDIC environment. Alkalize the body and the cancer dies. It's that simple. Want to know more? Click and ye shall find...
Funding kills a lot of progress, no matter whether it's government funding or private funding. And just recently, I've just come to the realization that I hate research more than I like it, especially because of all of the bureaucratic nonsense and lack of funding.
I mean... you will have people, who sit in a high position, who also have the expectation that you can produce phenomenal results without funding or with minimal funding.
It has only happened to me once so far, but I can already smell the bureaucracy at my new workplace. Either they don't believe in my skillset, or they simply think researchers are these miraculous magicians, who can produce something from nothing.
I have been fighting cancer for almost 5 years. This is the best "cancer info" I have seen.
Cloe, you are correct. Information should be shared and people should have access to their medical information. You create great material. I will keep watching. I even showed your sports and camera video to my class of students. Keep up the great work!
9 months ago me and over 10 million other people lost a very important online figure in our lives - Technoblade. He passed away from sarcoma at the age of 23 and the main reason was that it was detected too late.
Long story short, his shoulder got extremely swollen, so he decided to check it out at the hospital and it turned out he had stage 4 cancer which at this point had spread to his lungs and despite the tumor in his shoulder was completely removed and he was being treated with the newest and best treatments, he and the cancer made a draw.
When we learned he passed away, it hurt. A lot. Many of us cried on that day - July 1st 2022. A day which will be engraved in our memories probably for the rest of our lives.
We all wish the cancer was detected earlier. We all wished, despite everything, he would pull out a massive dub and get over this. We all wish he, with his dry humor and his incredible gaming skills, was still here to bring us joy.
Sadly, that's not how things turned out.
But before he went off, he did it with a bang. He raised over $1,000,000 for the SFA(Sarcoma Foundation of America) to fund research and treatments.
He is a legend.
He will be remembered.
Forever.
TECHNOBLADE NEVER DIES!
Was Technoblade vaccinated with mRNA? Because it seems strange how cancer rates have skyrocketed after that vaccine was released.
@@danieldorn9989 And what are you basing this correlation on? I'd love to see the data.
Holy fking shizzle, dude.
Holy fk.
You cried because a random person that NEVER KNEW YOU EXISTED passed away? WTF?
How tf do you all form parasocial relantionships with random people that can find the "upload" button on youtube? What is wrong with you?!?
He died, yeah, big fkin' deal. Sucks to be him, but that's about it.
@@danieldorn9989 Nice try pretending to care about meaningful discussion.
@@mrgalaxy396 These antivax people have shifted their tone in the past two years. They're no longer pretending to care about data. No amount of data will ever convince people like that in any regard. Their brain is a loose runny pudding of vaguely-recalled facebook posts and TV pundit talking points.
Great video, Cleo. Early detection is absolutely the way to go. I recently found out I have 8 cancerous tumors in my spine, which likely started growing more than a decade ago. I sure wish we caught it earlier. One problem with early detection though is misdiagnosis. I got an MRI and doctors thought I had a cyst. We wasted 18 months trying to treat a cyst that wasn’t there and allowed the tumors to grow larger.
Hey man. Have you looked into cannabis oil? I would advise you to look into the cannabinoid receptors in your body, and how cannabis oil is antitumor and anti-inflammatory
Start prolonged fasting and natural Scot inhibitors plus cut the sugar all together
sugar is the root of most health issues. sedentary lifestyle and genetics too. what i think is the more u eat and the more ur muscles grow the more risk u have. people that eat only the necessary amount live healthier and longer.
"Early detection is absolutely the way to go" - To bad data doesn't support this statement.
@@strawberryaImonds nonsense.
I DESPERATELY hope you read this, Cleo: I also am obsessed with Cancer. One thing I learned in academia is that there are literally HUNDREDS of companies across the U.S. that have patents and technologies relating to the fight against cancer. LET ME REPEAT THAT - "patents ... relating to the fight against cancer." Imagine a hurricane is headed for your home and all you need to secure your safety is hammer some plywood ... ONLY ... the guy across the street has the patent on nails, you have the patent on hammers, and someone else has the patent on plywood. THAT'S EXACTLY the state of things in the US, and HAS BEEN for 50 years or more. Husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, children, AND PETS ... all dying in agony because ... money.
My dear u have an absolutely infectious vibe and I'm extremely impressed by your research. I don't know how I ended up getting recommended your videos but I have to say I'm stoked. U go girl. You're fantastic.
My bloodline has genetic mutation that increases the probability of getting cancer. My grandmother and aunt passed away due to cancer. Not because we didn’t have the technology to cure cancer, but rather because the doctors dismissed "an unknown thing the size of a green bean" growing in their bodies, asking them to visit 6 months later. Obviously, it was already too late. Oh but this wasn't the only problem, even if we managed to diagnosed the cancer tumor early on, the medical treatment would be too expensive for us to afford. I truly hope the future holds better.
@@msmrreckoning trauma and shock or shell shock or recent PTSS all the same different name and age same injury. and a letter size elaborate about it but I do censor me like yt does so they do not get the chance and the priceless info of looking at the flow ...
It has to be expensive though, how else will big pharma make their money.
Hearing the dental check up comparison was upsetting. It made me realise when this does become more common, it will be largely dependent on disposable income. There will be no early detection for low income people. Just like people being unable to afford regular health and dental check ups.
Once again you have given us a perspective on a topic that is surprising and thoughtful. You move us to action and inquiry, and give information that answers questions as if we were in a conversation rather than an audience. Keep doing what you’re doing. I even like how you handle ads and their relevance to your message about people, innovation, tech among a whole lot else.
Just found your channel and LOVE all your stuff. As a stage 4 colon cancer survivor (5 years and still fighting - surgery, 3 types of chemo + immunotherapy), and having MRIs every few months over that time, I wasn't aware of how they actually worked. Amazing stuff -- thank you!!!
I wish a fast full recovery to you!
Living with an incurable disease is so hard, but you just have to live life day by day as it goes by (Cancer sucks)...
it is never the end of the world, i had HIV but when a friend of mine recommended a healer and caster for me, and she helped me out and i am NEGATIVE now, i was tested twice and i am free now
@@nancysainhigh1354 wow, how can i get in touch with her? this healer, does she cure other sickness
@@aaroncecil5381 yes, her name is Luana Kae Branigan.
@@nancysainhigh1354 wow, found her website, thank you very much for this.
Look into the coverup of a doctor named Burzynski
For those of us who've lost a loved one to cancer, tough to not get emotional through this one. But this is important information and it makes me feel better knowing it could help others. Thanks, Cleo
My mom was diagnosed with Thyroid Cancer last year and she was recently cleared as Cancer free and I’m so happy that there are so many new treatments.
Your videos are mind-blowing. I love how comprehensive you are in your discussion and exploration of the topics you discuss. Kudos! Keep up the great work!!! 👍❤️💪
My wife just finished her cancer treatments and luckily she caught it early enough where she did not need chemo or radiation, though she did require a double mastectomy. She is 38. My mom wasn’t so lucky and passed at that age about 16 years ago.
The whole problem is that using tools and machines is that it is cost prohibitive, even with insurance, and add to the fact that screenings aren’t covered until a certain age.
When my wife went to her physical, the doctor said that she didn’t need a check as she is still young, and did not have history. A couple months later, my wife found the lump.
People need to self screen honestly all the time and get the education to do so and not wait for the yearly or when something goes wrong.
That was very impressive. Halfway through the video I kept thinking "No, it's not that simple!", but you actually addressed all those issues eventually.
You're setting a VERY high standard for journalism. Well informed, showing different angles, addressing concerns....
Very inspiring. I'm looking forward to learning more from you.
I agree
Cleo, this video was outstanding. You covered this difficult topic of cancer and early detection beautifully. I am a doctor in private practice in Atlanta and I recommend the Ezra full body MRI scan to my patients. Thank you for providing such an incredible resource on such an important topic. I wish you continued success as you are very talented and your work makes a difference in the world.
Cleo, your enthusiasm and childlike sense of wonder is infectious. I hope you progress from study and presentation to advocacy. Your thoughts are right, you now need to get them in front of the people who create the policy that creates the change.
I was diagnosed with a benign brain tumour as a teenager, all because I got my eyes checked every year during childhood. If I hadn’t had the baseline history, and relationship with my Opthometrist to notice something was wrong, my complaints of headaches and worsening vision may have been ignored as a 15 year old.
Can’t overstate how important regular checkups are with your doctors to help with early detection. Thankfully 16 years in remission following brain surgery and radiation treatment. Canadian healthcare also meant I wasn’t charged a dime.
I also have headaches and worsening vision but the MRI from 2021 and 2022 came back negative. 🫤
The cancer vaccine is there. It's vitamin C
I'm 16 now and got diagnosed with the other type of cancer that's really common in children and teens (Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia) I also beat my cancer in september of last year :D
I had a friend who died from a sudden brain tumor a few years back in high school. I'm glad you were able to spot it.
@@beaub152 HOW FAST DOES NON SMALL CELL ADENOCARCINOMA LUNG CANCER TAKE TO HIT THE BRAIN OR ANOTHER ORGAN. HOW MANY MONTHS
I was 39 when I got diagnosed with an incurable blood cancer. 30% make it past 5 years after diagnosis - 6 years later I'm doing well still. I was perfectly healthy before. I went through a year of treatment. The treatment was brutal. People always say that 'oh well, they can do so much these days, you'll be ok'. Its true they can do so much, but my word the treatments they give you are truly horrible and tough to deal with. If they can move away from the old treatments then that will be a game changer for patients. And by the way Cleo is a dream women.
Check out Robert Barefoot research and cures. High ph balance is best to help keep away diseases.
Is it AML? I’m so sorry to hear about your diagnosis. However, you sound like a strong optimistic person. Sending healing hugs.
Sending you hugs. You are sooooooo brave, l could never endure cancer treatment. Ran away from a 10 minute wisdom tooth op. Please reply to me.
We're still awaiting that reply @dadmadforgot4050 !
I rarely if at all leave comments on anyone’s videos, I must say the production quality level, objectivity, simplicity, and supportive research behind each of your videos is at least very uncommon in this medium. Keep up the great work and thanks.
I really feel this. My dad is currently being treated for cancer, and it's been ongoing for the past 5 years, and for someone who was stage 4 when diagnosed that is much longer than most people get. But more to the point of this video -- we lost my mom to pancreatic cancer just over a year before his diagnosis. From the time we found out to the end was just 8 weeks. Pancreatic cancer is especially known for rarely being discovered until it is far too late to do anything.
It was, and remains, extremely upsetting to me that we were never given a chance to catch it earlier.
i feel u kevin my dad went in 9 weeks with pancreatic cancer and was my mums carer who has late stages of rapid onset dementia .
. In 2020, was diagnosed with Stage 4 kidney cancer (clear cell) that had been simmering for years and years. Being age 45 then, all the symptoms (sore back, immune system in decline, getting frequent colds/flu, needing longer time to recover from sickness, feeling very cold at temps that used to be totally comfortable) were just me thinking I was getting older until one day I started having blood in my urine.
Because of modern medicine, I'm cancer free today, but it was not an easy road getting here. I wish somehow I could have known earlier, but like you reported, it's just not part of modern medical practice.
I have had several cancers and was so fortunate in catching them early. But, because I have detected and treated cancer, it tells me that I am susceptible to this disease.
Now the regime is also “prevention”. Eating healthy, eliminating toxins, lowering sugar (carb intake) since cancer cells feed on it! I realized this from getting a PET scan. The procedure is, you stop eating carbs prior, and then they inject a glucose tracer into your system and after enough time for the tracer to infiltrate your body, they scan for the glucose which accumulates at the cancer site(s) because cancer attracts it in order to feed off it. This was a huge eye opener. Keeping your sugar (carb) intake at a minimum is reducing the energy that cancer uses to grow. That gives me time to monitor my body and be checking for lumps.
I also use an ongoing antioxidant consumption to help eradicate cancer cells. This is all I can do. Look after yourself, do not give cancer a reason or a chance to develop and grow. No smoking for starters! I’m 68 this month and I have lost 11 friends to preventable diseases, the number one being cancer from smoking like a dirty furnace! That and alcohol consumption. Wake up you hardcore addicts, stop!!! It WILL get you! I quite smoking almost 4 decades ago and I’m so thankful. I am alive today because I quit early.
This comment I am looking for. Cancer is metabolic and not genetic by Dr. Thomas Seyfried. Enjoy the new approach, thank you for sharing! 🙏🏽
What is the antioxidant you are using right now?
@@AMG1415 Exactly. And here's the fifth treating category: starving cancer.
Beautiful from the outside to the inside via MRI etc... So brilliantly explained. Such clarity in education. Thank you Cleo!
Interesting video, but with a bias. You don't mention the "war on cancer", Richard Nixon signs the National Cancer Act at the White House on Dec. 23, 1972. It provided $1.6 billion to find the causes of cancer and find new treatments. But you mention negatively Nixon twice in the recent video about psychedelics. It is very common to remember the bad that politicians have done and not the good (i.e. withdraw from Vietnam as he promised; nuclear arms control agreements with the Soviet Union and the diplomatic opening to China). And regarding the war on drugs you only have to look at Kensington (Philadelphia) zombies or Seattle streets to realize that the war on drugs was something well intentioned. P.D.: I am Spanish and I have nothing for or against mr. Nixon, it is only a fact that we all do (the negative bias).
About a year ago I was told noone was going to want to try to operate my mesotelioma. My inside, stomach was filled with cancer, several organs covered. From the time I was starting having symptoms until they realised it was cancer it took about 3 months. They tested me for everything, Everything ecept cancer. I'm 32 years old, I dont smoke or work with anything toxic or anything special. Finding out earlier would probably had spared me a ton of suffering.
But then again. After starting treatment with Chemo they tried to figure out how I got cancer. The best theory Is that i got it from my radiotherapy. Thats right, I've already had cancer before. 15 years ago I was treated for Leukemia, ALL. Chemo, the mustard gas. Radiotherapy, atomic bombs. Surgery 13 hours put to sleep while 3 doctors tirelessly removed cancer cells from my body. And transplantation of stemcells, I've done it all. Except this "melting" maybe.
Somehow I've miraculously survived both times, against all odds. Swedish healthcare is amazing.
But both times it did take months before they could find the right diagnose. Months that could have made my suffering smaller. So I believe you are making a great point by saying finding ways to finding it out earlier is an important way to help more people survive.
so yeah. Sorry for my life story but i just enjoyed this video, the topic is really important to me. Finding treatment for cancer is not just a simple one way solution like you said, there is a ton of different types and different ways to get them and treat them. But the "simple" fact of finding them early is a key to not just save lives but also minimize a lot of suffering for so much people.
What were your symptoms?
@@Canadianforestfairy Fever, and occasional stomach pains. Nothing else really. When i had my Leukemia years ago my only real symptom was also just fever. And both times i got sick around flu season so I really didnt expect a common fever to be cancer.
I’m not in the medical profession, but just as a person with a brain and an interest in my own health, I knew all of this. It’s very frustrating how our healthcare system works
its about money the best doctors do case by case basis of treating cancer, specific methods for each cancer types and what stage it is in
today if you dont have money, you will simply get radiotherapy which still costs a lot for many
My husband doctor saw his blood test and told him that he have worms in his body so he went through treatment. One year later he started to lose weight. He made another test and it was leukemia not worms…
Purely educated doctor…
Is it impossible to get nondescript worms and cancer at the same time?
Great Job Cleo documenting this difficult subject! You're good at doing this. I'm a skin melanoma cancer survivor. It's one of the worst kinds of cancer you can get. I was fortunate that it was cut out, however it did return again, twice. I opted with immune therapy drugs. That was crazy expensive. Those saved my life! But the side effects of this regiment killed my thyroid gland. Also, I now have celiac disease and have to be gluten free eating. Battling fuzzy brain too. Sad! Now I get scanned every 6 months to make sure melanoma doesn't come back. The point is, we need to look at more ways of prevention and eating better food if only that was possible now days. My favorite food might be my cancer cell's favorite food too. I wonder if there are foods that cancer hates? Just wondering. Maybe another subject to explore. It would a very difficult subject to tackle. There are some people who swear their new eating regiments killed their cancers and kept them cancer free. Dennis Black who sells Ruff Greens for dogs, is one of them who survived terminal cancer. There has to be a story in there somewhere.
In Canada, I know many people who have complained of symptoms for a year or even longer only to finally get sent for cancer tests. I just heard of another one, who was only 19 years old. You're absolutely correct, we can save many lives by doing regular screenings. Why we don't is largely down to costs and lack of resources.
Screening is not black and white
So well done on this topic.
My uncle passed away in his 70s last year from pancreatic cancer. My mom had an early stage breast cancer two years ago which fortunately they caught early and cut.
Early detection does appear to be key. It’d be great if we could find a proper balance between early detection and the overwhelm of nonessential findings that’d fill the medical system like y’all mention.
Quality video right here, Cleo
Yesnt. With PDAC even detected in early stages the prognosis is very bad .
I extremely benefited from this video and I am so thankful for seeing it on the homepage. I have health conditions that force me to be at the hospital more than a few times per (boooo). I believe as a healthcare worker and patient that being honest and having early detection is most important > developing the appropriate medication. I am in the care of many amazing nursing staff and doctors... as well as not so amazing. The amazing staff have shown and given their generosity and patience, I am thankful for you. People in the healthcare industry that are honest, genuine, and vulnerable help people who are facing serious health deficits
Wonderful videos, Cleo. They're greatly appreciated!
I just recently subscribed but I wanted to say, I'm amazed by how well you present your videos and the amount of detail you pack into such a short amount of time! Keep up the good work!
excellent MRI impression Cleo! I have MS and have to have an annual MRI scan....the radiologist always mentions that I might "find the noises unpleasant/disconcerting"....I enjoy the look on their faces when I tell them I have two albums recorded in MRI machines (true story)!
My mom is going to start chemo today for a rare blood cancer and I really appreciate how informative this was for me to help her and understand what she's going through :))
Very interesting Cleo. As usual, very well explained and engaging. I could almost feel your frustration at the system. Keep up the great work!
As an italian journalist who just started his own yt channel, I really admire your work. Topics such as this one are extremely important and relevant, and they are not discussed enough from the point of view you covered it. It was a non-sensationalized, very informative, and well-documented video. Just keep doing what you are doing cause we need people like you to shine a light on these topics.
The cancer vaccine is there. It's vitamin C
I'm a cancer survivor. Thank you, Cleo. "Cut" method was all I needed, luckily. But I saw firsthand the costs of treatment (USA). It's disgusting.
Wow I love Cleo so much. She makes me excited to hear about how MRIs work. Great work! Keep making optimistic videos! There is a harrowing lack right now.
I think it's not only early detection that is important, but prevention. We are so ignorant of what can trigger cancer, how our immune system works, and whatnot... I wish our children would learn this basic info in schools like they learn to read.
Gosh I love your content to dang much and just your enthusiasm and the joy and excitement on your face when you talk about all this what you love and are excited about it so beautiful and amazing.. Thank you for all the hard work, research and information you put into these nerdy cool af videos
This is the first video of yours that i watch, and i have to give you my most sincere compliments, to you and your team!
The production, editing and animations guide your eyes in the right spots, they help get the concepts into your brain and are complementary of a great script. I can't imagine how much work goes into this, but it certainly shows and i hope you continue in this fashion. Great, great, great work
So glad you made this video. Definitely puts things into perspective!
I came without hope in this channel and I found goold. Thank you so much for your time making this valuable content.
This is the first video of yours that I’ve watched. You are already among my favorites. Bravo and your attention to detail in delivering a story. Immediate sub. Seriously. So much work and effort and it shows! Please never stop.
I had a mole removed by a skin beautician last year. She used a laser. 4 months later I saw the mole grow back on the burn scar, it was black and bigger. I panicked when I realized this, and immediately went to the pharmacist, who said I need to go to a Dr immediately. After removal and biopsy, it came back as a healthy mole that grew back on a scar. I realized now to check my body a lot after this, and to change my diet and take better care of myself.
This is a great video. I've always said that early detection is the key to increasing the odds to beat cancer. There seems to be a lot of CZcams videos of people fighting cancer who were faced with delaying doctor visits and/or testing because of the Covid pandemic. When it comes to cancer, catching it as early as you can is key.
Another great report Cleo. Thanks for what you do.
Great video, Cleo! Your content is really well structured, and somehow manages to answer the questions your audience will have exactly at the right point in the videos.
The work you do to help us understand these complicated things is commendable. Amazing topics and amazing videos. Thank you.
Your videos are fantastic! I'm 37 and had worries about my bowel movements recently so I did a colonoscopy. No issues and I was so glad I checked earlier even though initially my doctor said I was "a bit too young". It did cost me a lot because I have no family history of colorectal cancer and I'm younger than 45, but the peace of mind is nice.
I do have a history of prostate cancer though and plan to start doing yearly PSA tests to check.
As a medical student, I have to wonder what happened so horribly wrong for a doctor to say, "By the way, you have leukaemia." That's definitely NOT how he was trained.
That he was telling someone who was also a physician! More seriously, I suspect he wasn't told quite that informally. He probably just means that the labs were not drawn as a cancer screen, but for other purposes. At least I hope so.
@@michaelclark4876. I SEEN MY DOCTOR ONLY FOR 2 minutes only one only see a nurse. And no pain meds for stage 4 non small cell Adenocarcinoma lung cancer. I’m only getting. KEYTRUDA .. NO PAIN MEDICINE.😡
I love how surprisingly accurate your medical videos are! Seriously, you mentioned "lead-time bias" in a video geared towards the general public, that is impressive!
Having recently seen one of my relatives and another neighbour succumb to Cancer within 1 or 2 months of detection, I can now see how early detection is the best bet against cancer. This is one of the most important videos I have ever seen. Thanks for that.
Unfortunately, as someone in the healthcare field, I must state that though this video has good intentions, it is seriously misguided. It saddens me that someone with this sort of platform would not at least find an M.D. willing to off-record support and refute the claims made in the video. It is rather irresponsible.
@@kemikunle9360 Could you please elaborate, make a summary of what is wrong/incomplete with the video? What is misguiding? I'm asking because I want to learn more.
@@NicosoftNT Thanks for asking! This video is very ironic. Cleo starts by saying "the cure for cancer" is a misnomer because anyone with clinical knowledge understands that cancer is not one disease -- cancers are various diseases with various causes that need to be treated very differently. However, she misses that cancers are also *diagnosed* completely differently. Cleo also toys with but ultimately shrugs off the idea that MRIs can be harmful when used for detection on a mass scale.
The great irony is her lumping all cancers together to be detected by an MRI. MRIs are both a gift and a curse in medicine. I will give you an example: For breast cancer screening, we strictly do not perform MRIs except in a small subset of women for who a mammogram (which consists of X-rays) and ultrasounds (like we use for fetuses in the womb) will not provide enough detail. Performing even just *breast* MRIs on all women for breast cancer screening alone would be a horrible thing. Breast MRIs provide so much detail that the rate of false positives is extremely high and can lead to a high rate of invasive biopsies and anxiety that are not at all needed.
Furthermore, there are a host of cancers that can only be detected via extensive bloodwork and would never be visualized via MRI.
INSTEAD, the most promising edge of cancer detection research in my opinion would be circulating tumor DNA (obtained by sampling cancer gene fragments found in the bloodstream). Researchers have found that tumor DNA in the blood can predict relapse and a host of other outcomes in patients with cancer, and they hope to one day use this information for cancer screening.
P.S. If you're curious which women we *do* perform breast MRIs on, it's women like Angelina Jolie who would probably get bilateral mastectomies anyways because of BRCA genes.
@@kemikunle9360 she does it for the likes and nothing more. Cemented by the clickbait title. Would be a shame if one day she gets it and finds a video on the internet claiming to cure it 🤷♂️ I think there’s a word for that though… ohh well, it’ll karma to me eventually.
After watching this, I've never been so happy to have the medical provider I do now who goes out of her way to get anything tested that might be a problem. Cancer took both of my parents (fortunately not the inheritable kind, but possibly with environmental causes .. to which I was exposed as well). It's hit many folks I know hard, too. Great video! Glad I found this channel!
Im still young, so when part of my body started to hurt, i told my friend who told me to go to the doctor. I told my family maybe it could be cancer and they looked at me weird saying "you are too young to have cancer". Long story short, i went to the Emergency Room and they told me i had cancer, very fortunately i got full coverage from the government because of the cancer and had surgery. I cant imagine how it would have went if my friend never told me to go to the doctor. Cancer does not care about your race, gender, who you are, or even how old you are. It can happen to anyone and please guys, make sure you guys get checked. Many people dont talk about it, but early detection really is super crucial to getting rid of cancer.
What about prevention? Cancer lives on carbohydrates. We're carnivores. We don't need to consume carbohydrates. And vegetable oil has no nutritional value.
This hit home with me.
I have VHL, a genetic disease that causes tumors all over my body. With screening and frequent doctor visits, it's manageable. But it costs thousands of dollars to treat Luckily it's generally all covered by insurance.
Meanwhile, insurance doesn't cover in vitro fertilization, which can ensure that my future kids won't have this disease. IVF is expensive, but much cheaper than a lifetime of MRIs, cancer treatments, etc for my future kids.
In my case, we can cure cancer through IVF, but the system is broken.
Always enjoy your stories. The ab break was surprisingly interesting to me today because it was an inside look into your work flow. I'm always a little curious how you and other can make such great videos and since I'm in this field it was fun to see a behind the scenes look. Thanks for that!
Your content is incredible! Very informative and expertly edited.
You're honestly fantastic. One of my favorite channels, rapidly. *Thank you!!
Could you please make a video about the REAL Causes of Cancer. I find it astounding, that the "war on cancer" is always about how much money you have to pay to the pharma-companies to get rid of it. It almost seems that nobody wants to prevent cancer - which is so much easier and cheaper than the so called "war".
You’re an incredibly efficient and engaging presenter of knowledge and innovation. It’s always a pleasure watching one of your videos, you’re a natural educator. Thanks for giving.
Cleo. You are absolutely amazing in the way you explain things. Love all your videos - thank you!!!!
Wonderful content as always, Thanks Cleo
This one hits different because my dad died of metastatic kidney cancer a few months ago. Kidney cancer is notoriously hard to detect and because the kidneys and lungs have such few main receptors, once you start to feel symptoms it’s usually too late. By the time they diagnosed his he was stage 4 and had a significant amount of cancer tissue that had spread around his body.
I am convinced that earlier detection would have prolonged his life. There were many warning signs in the last few years. Unfortunately many were ignored or were not pushed to us as a big threat because of the further risk the scans might have caused.
I wish we pushed back harder on the drs and got better answers for an earlier detection. Unfortunately they didn’t seem to want that.
What are some of the warning signs, please?
I pray for your dad and hope your God and world gives you enough strength to deal and move with it forward in life ❤
Lost my dad to lung cancer iv ,fought the hard 2 years of pain but to a loosing battle. The Dr. Or medical personal are more hidious about the test result rather than just prescribing more test with clueless testresults.
The war on cancer can only be won with forks and knives. What you eat, how much you move, how well you control stress, how much you love and how meaningful your relationships are, will change your gene expression and will effect your immune system to keep your body healthy. The only problem with this is that there is no profit in eating a plant based diet and implementing all these other lifestyle changes. Look into whole food plant based lifestyle and learn how this influences not only cancer wise but any chronic life threatening disease. The big issue is that 80% of what is sold as food, is damaging the human body and is not food. And yes, that’s exactly what people don’t want to hear because it goes against their addictions and it’s so much easier to rely on a pill or a procedure. The human body doesn’t work that way. The cellular biology needs nutrition to keep the cellular processes to work correctly. This will never change. This nutrition can’t be found in a traditional western animal and processed based diet together with the stressful lives we life.
I agree with this 100 percent! It’s the hard truth people need to hear but dont want to face. After my cancer scare this is now my reality. Eating cleaner, fasting, exercise, stress reduction is the formula. Kudos to you good sir for passing on the message!
@@DavidMey83 I’m glad it works for you. Look into the work of Michael Greger, Neal Barnard, Michael Klaper, Joel Fuhrman, etc. Magnificent doctors who tell the truth that is backed up with mountains of evidence.
I love that this is being talked about. I have worked on some cancer research projects and in the process became aware of many interesting companies working in the prevention area, especially early testing.
Companies like “grail” are creating blood tests that can pick up signals of 50+ cancers including asymptomatic ones. Myriad genetics and many other genetic companies have genetic screenings to see if you have some of the more common cancer gene mutations or risks. (Aka tells you if you need to be more vigillent and screen more often due to being higher risk) right now these are mostly cash pay unless you have a strong family history, but it is something I am so passionate about and I hope becomes more accessable, affordable and covered.
Also people, live healthy! Stop smoking (causes huge numbers of mutations) and your outcomes (even if you get cancer) are way better. Prevention and early detection👏
Our disposition to live in a hightened state of stress over years and years creates the right environment inside our bodies to activate specific genes that lead to the manifestation of disease, any disease including all types of cancer. Therefore, regulating your stress, your state of mind, and changing the dynamics between body and mind is the key to live a life with minimal chances of developing a illness such as cancer. In the case of childhood cancer, we cannot ignore anymore the existence of the soul. The soul is the energy inside of you and every living being in the universe. In the case of intelligent beings with consciousness, it is that part of you which begs the question, "what is life? What is love? What is happiness"? It is your soul trying to communicate with you to stop living a life that is controlled by your external environments. It's asking you to look within to find purpose within yourself. A soul is the pure energy of your subconscious mind that creates our neuro networks and installs consciousness in our minds. When we die, our energy, or soul, is released into the quantum field of reality where there is no time or space. Going back to childhood cancer, because a soul exists within a dimension where there is no time and space, it already knows the life it will live and the potential possibilities in that life, consequently, a soul will choose to live a physical life that is meant to end early because a souls purpose is too gain wisdom through physical life experience. The parents of these kids and their souls also choose to live a life where they're child gets this diagnosis in order to continue to grow as a soul, the challenge for the soul is to overcome this. For those that have experienced this, im so sorry you had to, and you know just how nearly impossible it is to overcome the pain. But just know that you will be together again, and you will be for all time, because energy can never be destroyed. Life is more mystical and abstract than we like to believe, and this is why we still dont understand the brain, or how genes propogate to create disease, or how in the hell our cells are able to handle so much throughout life. If atoms create matter, and atoms are composed of 99.99% intangible energy according to the quantum model, what does that mean about the remaining .01% that creates physical reality based on our perception? I only ask you keep an open mind if you read this far. If you're dealing with an illness, whats the worst that can happen if you give this a shot? The quantum field we all live by contains all possibilities, even the one where you overcome your illness. Believe in your mind that youve already overcome this, feel it in your body and have no doubt. You're going to be ok afterall.
This is an excellent video. Your delivery, animations, and scripting are phemonimal. Also, I just finished reading The Emperor Of All Maladies, and you touched on a lot of my key takeaways from that book. Keep up the great work.
Cleo and Johnny uploading just MINUTES within each other's uploads?! Today's an amazing day.
I’m fairly new, didn’t know about Johnny until now. Thanks!
EXPLAINED !!!
Johnny?
@@nicksims2827 Johnny Sin~ I mean Johnny Harris. Him and Cleo were colleagues at Vox.
@@jtx6104 Johnny Harris btw. Just making sure you know the right person. He also makes documentary videos but in a different style.
About a year ago I was diagnosed with stage 4 melanoma. I had no symptoms. I didn't even feel sick. We only found it because I was getting a chest X-ray done for something else entirely and weird results showed up. I'm also only 37, nearly 25 years too young to be getting a diagnosis of melanoma.
A part of it is definitely that we need to screen better. But there are a surprising number of cases like mine, where people in their 20s or 30s get cancer that primarily affects those in their 60s or later.
I've been concerned about issues like this when I'm older, especially when it's something treatable initially.
I guess the solution would be to get full body 'check' ups. It's something most people overlook but could be the key to surviving and dying.
Thanks for reminding me that I have a reasonable cause Cleo.
Cool video! Would also be interesting to explore the topic of cancer risk reduction, or trying to reduce the risk of developing cancer in the first place. Thanks for putting this together!
I was just about to comment the same thing! I would love a follow-up video on cancer prevention or risk reduction.
"Ask your doctor what tests you might benefit from." I have a 6 figure full time job with full benefits and I still don't have a doctor. Possibly the biggest advance in curing cancer isn't even in early detection, its in making it way way simpler and reliable to get a doctor and regularly visit a doctor for basic checkups. I along with many people have never had remotely consistent checkups in the US. I wish I did, but I dread the thought of even trying to start researching finding a decent doctor and investigating all the ways my health insurance company will screw and scare me on top of it. I suspect the reason more males die of cancer is due to the fact that regular doctor visits are a higher priority for woman, which means they are already in the system and they will get detected earlier.
Try Kaiser. They are extremely accessible
This. I'm extremely fortunate compared to many people and have had a very negative experience with medical system my whole life. Going to a doctor for me feels worse than going to a car mechanic where I'm not sure what motives they have and what I'm going to get and what bill im going to be stuck with. The lack of transparency especially in american medical system is unreal.
@@MarvinLiyanage the medical system is mostly broken, I think that is probably behind your negative experiences with it.
One of the key foundational issues is that we view it as “health care”.. it is not, it is sick care. Health care is between you and your diet, sleep, stress management and exercise.
We live in a time where very few people truly address their health in a comprehensive way. I’m happy to elaborate on anything if that seems overly simple or cliche
@@MarvinLiyanage 100%. It's especially annoying because there are in fact plenty of good doctors and mechanics out there, but the vast majority are thrown into an indistinguishable list with others that are garbage, and locked behind miserable layers of business and insurance crap that forces both them and us into a way shittier situation.
True. Men are supposed to be strong and shrug off everything. This is why many don't even visit the doctor while women will go for a checkup for even the slightest things.
I was all set to write a long comment about my prostate cancer journey (nearly 4.5 years & counting), I decided to just say my journey has been filled with inept PAs, bumbling urologists, well meaning oncologists, various therapies, & a lot of stress & tears. I’m sure I’m not alone with having doctors who don’t seem to know(or care due to the sheer number of patients they have) what they’re doing. For everything I’ve had done (cut, burn, HST - which in itself is a form of poison), my PSA has been a rollercoaster. It’s exhausting trying to keep up with their ineptitude. We need better education in medical schools to embrace diet, exercise, & holistic treatments for cancer in this country. At the same time, we need to educate ourselves as to what is out there, that we can do alongside traditional medicine, to enhance our treatment & fight back the cancer.
You are an older man, and you should know that medicine is a business.
No cure for Cancer.
There isn't such a thing as cancer survivors. But people with cancer.
Do Doctors make an specialty on cancer to offer patients Chemotherapy, Radiotherapy and immunotherapy?
Hey there! Hope you're doing alright. Have you looked into raw garlic, or its compound when crushed: allicin? What about ginger root or turmeric root? These are all supposed to aid against certain cancers, including prostate cancer. Speak with your doctor before because all those things thin your blood as well as lower bad cholesterol, blood pressure, and blood sugar. They induce apoptosis of cancer cells and have been found to aid in conventional cancer treatments by protecting healthy cells from the poison we use to treat cancer. My 75-year-old father and I make a health drink every day: 5 cloves of raw garlic blended up, then add one tablespoon of olive oil and raw unfiltered honey. Let that sit for at least 10 minutes so the garlic releases more allicin. Then add a chunk of ginger root, this aids in keeping your stomach soothed from the garlic, but also has healing gingerol in it. We then add fresh lemon juice, the pulp, the seeds, and 1/4 of the lemon peel which has a lot of limonene in it. The lemon juice synergizes with garlic to enhance its effect as well. Lastly, we add 12 oz of distilled water and blend it up. My dad strains his but I drink it with the pulp so I don't miss out on all the good compounds. You're supposed to drink it within 15 minutes or I've read that the lemon juice loses some of its healthy benefits.
I'm aware that Sugar is major fuel for Caner. Cutting that out and staying positive and optimistic can really be helpful in the big fight against cancer.
I have heard that taking i v e r m e c t i n maybe helpful for it
You might take a hard look at fasting and it's biological mechanism for healing.
Cleo I love your videos! Stay optimistic!