We've got some good news when it comes to dealing with cancer.
At least one specific form of rectal cancer.
There was a clinical trial for a new immunotherapy drug that dealt with a very
specific form of this specific type of cancer.
And it was successful in causing literally every one of the people who is treated
with it to go into remission.
Now, admittedly it is a small scale study and as I've said multiple times,
it's a limited form of rectal cancer.
But this is already being greeted by a lot of people who write about medical news and
the continuing war against cancer.
As maybe the beginning of a game changer.
So let me give you some of the details.
The drug was administered at New York's Memorial Sloan Kettering cancer Center,
it is a drug called dostarlimab.
They used it for six months and
the trial resulted in every single one of the patients having their tumors removed.
18 people were treated and they're admitting that there's still a lot that
needs to be learned about how the treatment worked.
But I wanna give you some details about what makes this so
special not just in terms of how successful it was.
But in comparison to other forms of treatments for cancer.
So Dr. David Agus says this new treatment is a type of immunotherapy.
A treatment that blocks the don't eat me signal on cancer cells,
enabling the immune system to eliminate them.
The treatment targeted a subtype of rectal cancer that has the DNA repair system not
working.
When the system isn't working, there are more errors and
proteins in the immune system recognize these and kills the cells.
But here's the most amazing thing about it.
They did not have to accompany this with the traditional way that you fight cancer.
Things like chemotherapy and those other sorts of things.
They just use this and it was successful and that's important because,
as doctors have described in other articles, I've seen.
Traditional form chemotherapy surgeries, things like that can be used for
many forms of rectal cancer and they might even be successful.
But even when they're successful,
simply having undergone that can have very serious effects on your body.
Doctors say that there are people who they've successfully treated for
rectal cancer.
That cannot leave the house anymore because of fears of things like
incontinence and the shame associated with that and all that.
So this isn't just more successful than the traditional surgeries.
It is far less deleterious, the effect that it has on the human body.
>> I have even more good news and it's about weight loss.
So everybody is going to be interested in that.
>> I don't know that part.
>> Okay, no, it's not in the story.
But before I get to that, I'm just gonna make the most random point here.
The online platforms have built the algorithms in a way that they that it
loves conflict.
So I don't know,
I'm super curious whether this good news is gonna be well online, right.
So I was thinking of labeling this doctors versus your rectum [LAUGH] conflict, okay.
Your rectum goes down then it goes up no all right.
Okay [LAUGH] >> I already finished my ice cream.
>> Okay, so back to the good news.
There's no actual conflict here.
Although there's like, I love science.
So anyone telling you the science doesn't work nonsense.
Science saved my life.
And that's what leads me to this part.
So, a friend who's a PhD in cell biology and so he tracks all
of these as part of his job and he worked in top cancer lab in the world.
I'm super proud of him.
And so he's a smart guy go to for medical advancement stories.
And he called me the other day because I was worried about my dad.
And there's a new drug that is not yet approved but
might really help eliminate Alzheimer's, that would be awesome.
Okay, that would be awesome.
So hold and all the stuff that he shares his public information.
He just reads the meta studies and all that stuff, right.
And then he said, there's good news.
There's a drug coming out that might actually for
the first time work on weight loss.
And I was like, okay, hold up.
Don't worry about the rectal cancer.
Don't worry with us.
Tell me more about that drug.
Give me he said, yeah, they'll probably recommend it to someone like you.
[LAUGH] I wonder why he's being honest about it because I'm overweight enough
that a doctor would say, you qualify.
[LAUGH] okay, so and he says he usually takes off about £20.
I was like, get out of the way [LAUGH] I mean,
I'd hit that harder than a buffet.
>> Yeah, I'd take the medicine and then a booster just to be sure.
But yeah, when is that coming?
>> Not tomorrow, but relatively soon.
Know relatively soon.
So I'll have to talk to him about that again.
But guys, I'm telling you all this because science rocks all.
It is just an examination of what's real and what's true.
That's all science means.
You know, get into these debates.
Science versus religion, right or faith.
It's ridiculous that first of all, it's not a debate.
Although we could do it that way.
Conflict science versus non science facts versus, I don't know,
religion versus your rectum, right.
So, but, it's just an examination of the actual material world and
how it interacts with other things.
So in this case,
cancer has that thing that says don't your body should not attack me.
That's why it spread so much and all they did was analyze until they're like,
we found a way to switch that off, right.
I love science.
>> Yeah. >> And
finally it's the part about how it saved my life.
I've said this a couple of times.
I had a very rare skin disease in my early thirties.
And what that does is it basically melts your skin off until you die, okay.
But thank God they came up with treatment in the 70's, 80's in that ballpark.
So pretty recently, I'm not doing 1870's, 1970's, 1980's.
In fact, my doctor said.
When he went to medical school, that there's a single line of cells left at
the end of your skin when you look under a microscope and he had done that.
He saw it.
He said that we used to call that the row of tombstones because if you saw that you
were looking at a dead man, okay.
But science saved my life.
And so with a combination of insulin and steroids and
not insulin in Imran and prednisone.
And now they've got even better treatment.
So you don't have to go through what I went through with the weight gain.
That's why it happened.
[LAUGH] And I got the moon facing the whole thing.
But it's it literally saved my life.
And this story we're telling you here will save thousands and thousands of lives.
It's just an examination of what's true, that's all.
>> Yeah. >> So no matter what you believe,
you should love science.
>> The only downside.
Each dose of the drug is $11,000 and
you have to take it every three weeks for six months.
They're gonna have to get that down a little bit.
But assuming that they can, that is great yes.
>> Well, I mean, look expensive well, because it works.
Yeah, so that that's more complicated.
>> [LAUGH] >> Because I guarantee if you look into
it, there was government research.
And the taxpayers probably paid for some of it, and
we're not getting any of those profits.
And then there's the insurance and they all.
>> And there's plenty of if they want to put up the chart, there's plenty of cancer
drugs and treatments right now that are way more expensive than that.
So, yeah, it's expensive.
>> No, our health care system is nuts.
I mean, look, I love these drugs and I don't mind.
The company is making a lot of money.
Okay, God bless on that front okay.
But our system isn't about creating enough incentive for them to create those drugs.
They have plenty of incentive.
Now, our system just layers on like billions.
I'm almost trillions in profits for
corporate executives that don't need to be in the system at all.
Right, so, that's a completely different conversation.
I wanna go back to science yes.
>> [LAUGH] >> Okay and
we can do the science without robbing us blind.
Exactly in fact, my mother in law.
I mean, look at how crazy her system is.
My mother in law had cancer, luckily it was stage one so
she's okay but and then she was gonna take a pill.
Not this one, obviously it's a different kind of cancer and
it's a different pill and it was approved earlier.
But then we had like a week or two where we didn't know whether her insurance was
gonna cover it and she has Medicare.
And so we were on pins and needles.
>> Mm-hm. >> Because then if the insurance doesn't
cover it was something like this was like $10,000 a pill or $20,000 a pill and
she had to take like 50 of them.
I mean nobody has that money.
The insurance doesn't cover it,
you're done right then you're like well I guess we're on the stage two.
I mean this is insane.
This is totally insane.
So luckily Medicare did cover it when we got the news.
We like literally had a party like.
>> The most countries that would not have been a thing you needed to celebrate.
No, she's from Taiwan, I mean we were having conversations about this,
you have to move back to Taiwan.
Because America might let her die, but Taiwan would save her life.
That's the country we live in.
No guys look, I talk about corporate rule a lot.
So we're here, we got about a couple of minutes left here.
So why not get really serious at the end of an ice cream bonus episode.
>> If you need, I can lighten it up with something after.
>> Okay, no, in every part of our lives corporations have set the rules and
they've done it through politicians.
So the gun manufacturers have to make money, so our kids have to die,
the drug companies have to make money.
So sometimes if you can't afford the payments and
if you weren't lucky enough to be in Medicare, you have to die, right.
I got the story in my book.
And you guys might have seen an interview,
we did wonderful progressive out of Kansas.
He was one of the original just Democrats got very serious stage four cancer and
they said the specialist is in Denver and that's out of network.
So he's like, so what do you want me to do?
They're like don't get it, do something else.
But I'm way more like at this stage four,
I'm very likely to die if I don't get that specific treatment in Denver don't care.
And then finally his wife got a different job that had better health care
coverage and allowed him to go out of network and saved his life.
But this is the insanity that we live in because corporations have to
make more money.
>> And why does your job or your partner's job, have anything to do with any of this.
>> Our system all of it's not, I keep saying insane but
it's actually not at all insane.
It's very logical you get it.
>> Yeah. >> You know they make tons of money.
They give a tiny percentage to politicians politicians rigged the rules and
we all have to suffer.
So that they can make more money.
>> Well you know one of the things that I really felt really lucky when I got
the job at TYT.
Was that up until then I had wanted to buy my current car sign IQ.
But my insurance wouldn't cover it so
I had to get a new job then my insurance would cover the sign.
No this makes any sense.
It doesn't make any sense at all.
Why is this a system that we have anyway?
>> Yeah. >> Glad yes glad that he was
able to get the coverage that he needed.