Discussion on Cancer Treatment Approaches

So you have to fight dogma. Part of the problem is you're fighting...

So I will ask you, I wanted to ask

us to do an experiment

I'm all for it

...

where we pick up the phone, call any random oncologist, not

to shame them,

primary care physician, pick up a phone,

and said, "You do a CBC, correct?" "Yes."

Can you define what a CBC is?

A complete blood count. Just so...

You take a blood and you look for-

Yeah, the blood screen that everyone gets

... blood screen.

Yeah.

For whether you're anemic or not anemic.

Yeah, yeah.

People understand that, right?

Yeah.

Red blood cells, and you see these red blood cells.

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 down so

that you don't get an infection called neutropenic fever,

so we give you this drug,

neutpo- Neutrogen."

Well, the problem is, does red blood cells cure cancer? No.

Does platelets cure cancer? No. Does neutrophils kill cancer?

No. What kills cancer?

The natural killer cells and T cells.

So in that CBC, there's a thing called the,

the lymphocytes, correct?

Do you look at that? No.

The only cell that is important that kills

cancer,

99.9% of oncologists will say, "We don't pay any

attention to that."

That, um-

That, that is surprising

... to use a colloquial term, that does seem ass-backwards. What...

Why,

why, why, if you're on... not to, you know, attack oncologists, but if

you're fighting cancer, why do you ignore the one cell

that fights cancer?

I'd love... That's the experiment I want us to do.

The, uh... And, and-

That's a little mysterious. Am I missing something?

That's ex- exactly.

That's the missing link, the final frontier,

the E equals MC squared, the God's equation