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My favorite cancer video! Please see My Favorite Cancer Video for a discussion.
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(5 mins) Transcript. I love this video! Dr Greger asks, "How effective is chemotherapy for colon, lung, breast, and prostate cancers?" Excerpts from the video:
“Over the last several decades,…medicine has waged a major war against cancer, concentrating on earlier diagnosis and improved therapy. The war is not being won. Nevertheless, medicine shows few signs of admitting that its strategy may be flawed. In this it resembles a World War I general who stated: ‘Casualties: huge. Ground gained: negligible. Conclusion: press on.’”
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If you look at the contribution of cancer-killing chemo to five-year survival in cancer patients, it’s on the order of only about 2%. Now, there’s some pediatric cancers we’ve gotten good at treating, and testicular cancer and Hodgkin’s disease are exceptions, but if you look at our most common cancers—colon, lung, breast, and prostate—the success rate is only about 1%. Meaning like, out of nearly 14,000 colon cancer patients, only 146 lived out five years thanks to chemotherapy. So, the chance of survival benefit is like one in a hundred, but doctors don’t tell patients that.
What is the best strategy to tackle cancer? PREVENTION! PREVENTION! PREVENTION! Dr Greger makes this point in the video. And how may we prevent? Dr Greger encourages us to adopt Whole Food Plant-Based guidelines. We may also draw inspiration from AICR 10 Recommendations and AICR New American Plate.
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In 2021, Dr Greger published a 3-part video series on cancer metastasis (which means that cancer cells break off from where their site of origin and spread to other body parts). This video series is insightful and worth watching. Quick summary: eat plant-based, lower saturated fats intake, eat low fat, eat cruciferous veggies in abundance!
(6 mins) Transcript. Dr Greger's summary: "Palmitic acid, a saturated fat concentrated in meat and dairy, can boost the metastatic potential of cancer cells through the fat receptor CD36."
(5 mins) Transcript. Dr Greger's summary: "Randomized controlled trials show lowering saturated fat intake can lead to improved breast cancer survival."
(6 mins) Transcript. Dr Greger's summary: "Women with breast cancer should include the liberal culinary use of cruciferous vegetables."
(6 mins) Transcript. Dr Greger's summary: "Which legumes are best at inhibiting the matrix metalloproteinase enzymes that allow cancer to become invasive?"
Some day, I'll organize Dr Greger's cancer videos organized by topic. For now, here are a couple of pointers:
- Mammograms: Are mammograms helpful? What's the debate?
- Colonoscopies: Should we all get colonoscopies at age 50?
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