Why Oncologists Miss the Most Important Thing — Transcript

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1. 0:00The only cell that is important that
2. 0:03kills cancer, 99.9% of oncologists will
3. 0:06say we don't pay any attention to that.
4. 0:08Pick up the phone, call any random
5. 0:10oncologist, not to shame them, primary
6. 0:12care physician, pick up a phone and said
7. 0:14you do a CBC. Correct. Yes.
8. 0:16>> Can you define what a CBC is?
9. 0:17>> A complete blood count. Just you take a
10. 0:19blood and you look for
11. 0:20>> Yeah. The blood screen that everyone
12. 0:21>> blood screen for whether you're anemic
13. 0:23or not anemic. People understand that,
14. 0:25right? red blood cells and you see these
15. 0:26red blood cells and you give
16. 0:28chemotherapy and radiation and you ask
17. 0:30what do you look for? Well, we look to
18. 0:31see if you're anemic so we can give you
19. 0:33this drug that am makes called epigen.
20. 0:35We look to see whether your platelets
21. 0:36have gone down so we can give you a
22. 0:38plate transfusion. We look to see
23. 0:39whether your neutrfils have gone down so
24. 0:41that you don't get an infection called
25. 0:43neutropenic fever. So we give you this
26. 0:44drug. Well the problem is does [music]
27. 0:46red blood cells cure cancer? No. Does
28. 0:48platelets cure cancer? No. Does
29. 0:50neutrfils kill cancer? No. What kills
30. 0:52cancer? The natural killer cells and T-
31. 0:53cells. So in that CBC there's a thing
32. 0:55called the lymphosytes. Correct? Do you
33. 0:57look at that? No.