Let's talk about number one mistake
doctors make with prostate cancer. Of course I know there's many mistakes doctors can make,
but what's what's one of the biggest mistakes you still see doctors make with prostate cancer?
Thinking that PSA should not be done for screening.
I didn't expect you to say that; that's interesting. I thought you were going
to say something in the castrate resistant prostate cancer world.
Well I mean, you know, I want to try to get to this early, right?
Yeah, yeah, and you know, now
with Covid and all that, you know, people are talking about seeing more and more
advanced patients. Okay, what about number one mistake patients make in prostate cancer?
Or one of the top mistakes patience make, overall? Come here buddy. Come here pretend
like you like me on camera. How you doing? Look at this; this is my guy; this is Gratzie.
You need some testosterone lowering medication.
This is one of the world's most famous oncologists, don't you care? I call this — I
call this segment this is Tia Higano's this is our first annual doggone good question segment, so he
brought an extra question in his teeth. That was the setup, so I'll ask you a question. Hey buddy,
well daddy loves you. I know don't worry; I gotta let Tia go; I've kept her going two hours.
So you know, dogs are getting a lot of attention and prostate cancer lately;
they can apparently sniff out prostate cancer. That's our new dog — five months old. It's
got a lot of energy. Now I know why it's tough to have children when you're really old because... t
Talk to my husband about that.
I can't even take care of a dog, anyway,
so I'm sorry — biggest mistake patients make in prostate cancer you were thinking about. What's
one of the what's one of the biggest mistakes you see them make that you could offer a quick
piece of advice that comes to the top of your head? Your one with doctors was really good.
So, I think the most common mistake that I see is that in their eagerness
to understand what's out there and read the literature they commonly make conclusions
based on research that's done in a laboratory, that has not been done on humans, and they want
to ask about all these different you know du-du-du treatments, and I mean you know, it's it's
understandable but it is a mistake. I mean stick with the human data, not with the test tube data.
That's a really good one that I haven't actually heard in all my time of being a moderator for
these conferences, isn't that funny? Because I've lived that for 33 years, meaning, people translate
diet and supplements from the test tube all the time, and I always say — people always say well
why don't you talk about this? And I say there's so many people i could invite to the table and
it'd be thousands and if you're a mouse I can cure you of prostate cancer with high doses of this,
but in human a lot of these things haven't worked, you know, and I'll just give you a classic example
everyone has asked me for the entire year because I've been writing Covid updates with
my public health background; I've been writing I think I've done 16 of them, so now I'm immersed
in Covid as my second job, and they've said well why aren't you commenting on the supplements that
work against Covid? And I said because I have no idea what in the hell supplements are going
to work against Covid so I'm not going to do the wrong thing here and pretend like anybody knows.
Right.
Right when the pandemic started people are saying take zinc, take vitamin c,
take vitamin d, and I'm going who can say this? This hasn't even come out of a laboratory, so if
I'm going to do the most responsible thing as the supplement guru of America I'm going to keep my
mouth shut and say I have no idea because that's the truth. So what happens in the past two weeks?
Cleveland Clinic publishes their data on zinc and high dose vitamin c for people, outpatients, and
it didn't work any better than just usual care. It doesn't mean supplements don't work against Covid,
but it just means everyone's got everyone's got all the answers when it's in the test tube.
Right, exactly. I know so that's that's the most common mistake I think is worth commenting on.