# Cancer Treatment: Blood Counts, NK Cells and T Cells

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- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:21
- Published: 2026-08-16
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## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/46XiD04ou9xL/en/cancer-treatment-blood-counts-nk-cells-and-t-cells) The only cell that is important that kills cancer, ninety-nine point nine percent of oncologists will say, "We don't pay any attention to that." So what kills cancer?

[0:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/46XiD04ou9xL/en/cancer-treatment-blood-counts-nk-cells-and-t-cells?t=12) Pick up the phone, call any random oncologist, not to shame them, primary care physician. Pick up a phone and say, "You do a CBC, correct?" "Yes."

[0:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/46XiD04ou9xL/en/cancer-treatment-blood-counts-nk-cells-and-t-cells?t=22) Can you define what a CBC is? A complete blood count. You take a blood and you look for- Yeah, the blood screen that everyone does.

[0:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/46XiD04ou9xL/en/cancer-treatment-blood-counts-nk-cells-and-t-cells?t=28) Blood screen. Yeah. For whether you're anemic or not anemic.

[0:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/46XiD04ou9xL/en/cancer-treatment-blood-counts-nk-cells-and-t-cells?t=31) Yeah, yeah. People understand that, when you see these red blood cells.

[0:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/46XiD04ou9xL/en/cancer-treatment-blood-counts-nk-cells-and-t-cells?t=33) And you give chemotherapy and radiation and you ask, "What do you look for?" "Well, we look to see if you're anemic, so we can give you this drug that Amgen makes called Epogen. We look to see whether your platelets have gone down, so we can give you a platelet transfusion. We look to see whether your neutrophils have gone

[0:48](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/46XiD04ou9xL/en/cancer-treatment-blood-counts-nk-cells-and-t-cells?t=48) down so that you don't get any infection called neutropenic fever, so we give you this drug, neutrop-Neutrogen."

[0:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/46XiD04ou9xL/en/cancer-treatment-blood-counts-nk-cells-and-t-cells?t=54) Well, the problem is, does red blood cells cure cancer? No.

[0:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/46XiD04ou9xL/en/cancer-treatment-blood-counts-nk-cells-and-t-cells?t=58) Does platelets cure cancer? No. Does neutrophils kill cancer? No. What kills cancer?

[1:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/46XiD04ou9xL/en/cancer-treatment-blood-counts-nk-cells-and-t-cells?t=65) The natural killer cells and T cells. So in that CBC, there's a thing called the, the lymphocytes, correct?

[1:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/46XiD04ou9xL/en/cancer-treatment-blood-counts-nk-cells-and-t-cells?t=70) Do you look at that? No. The only cell that is important that kills cancer, ninety-nine point nine percent of oncologists will say, "We don't pay any attention to that."