Fighting Cancer and Aging With the Latest Medical Advances

0:00 Speaker 1 Sunday morning. Well, live long and prosper. Dr. Peter Michalos is back from the Greek islands, and he has a lot of revelations of how we’re going to live longer and prosper at the same time. Well, Dr. Peter Michalos, give us your answers for this Sunday morning. Well, John, living longer also involves prevention, and cancer prevention is one

0:25 of the biggest issues. For example... Smoking in European women is rampant right now, and they used to have some of the lowest cancer rates in the 1950s, and now they have some of the highest cancer rates for lung cancer in the world. So that’s why part of living long and prospering and... anti-aging is catching cancer early because

0:49 early intervention, early diagnosis means a higher chance for a cure. And in the United States, one in three people in their lifetime will get a cancer diagnosis, whether it’s a skin cancer or other types of cancer. So it’s so important to do cancer screening. And now that we have a great awareness of breast cancer, it’s so important for

1:11 women to do their self-exams where they’re in the shower. And if they feel something abnormal, they should right away report that. But mammography should begin screening at age 45. If you have a family history of breast cancer, you can even start earlier at 40. One of the things that scares women away from mammography is that the way

1:36 the mammogram machine works, it clamps and compresses the breast, and people find it uncomfortable and painful. There’s an amazing new advance. And it’s called Pink. And what they do is they develop a scan where it’s just two holes on a table. The woman lies flat. The breasts are suspended freely. And a 3D CAT scan does it without

1:57 distorting the breast. And it’s probably going to end up being more accurate. than standard mammography, and that’s one of the great new advances, and it’s the same amount of radiation as a mammogram. And if a woman has dense breasts, they can even do MRIs now on breasts and even ultrasound for more details. The next one, big one, is

2:18 colon cancer. And colon cancer has been on the rise, especially in young people. And 45 is the screening age. And the gold standard is still colonoscopy, where the doctor has basically a soft telescope that goes up and sees the entire colon, see if there’s any polyps that are cancerous, and remove them. If you’re afraid of doing that, they

2:40 do have a poop test now where you send off a sample and any shedding tumor shows up in that sample. And that’s a colo-guard test. And many people are opting for that now, especially if they’re over 75 or 80 and they don’t want to risk any type of anesthesia or any type of procedure. So that’s another option. The

3:02 other one is lung cancer. And if you’re a smoker, definitely they have these low dose radiation CAT scans. Now you can do it age 50, especially if you have a history of being a smoker. Some people who are heavy smokers or have a strong family history are considering it even earlier. Or those who work, for example, around

3:22 asbestos or the people who are around 9-11 who have higher risk for these things. And these new machines are quite amazing. And the, uh, The other thing we have are amazing new tests, like a blood test that can check for 50 cancers, like CancerGuard, where basically when a tumor starts showing up microscopic amounts in the blood, it

3:46 picks it up with a blood test. And the other thing is a company called Rua Diagnostics, they’re claiming they can pick up lung cancer and colon cancer with about an 85% success rate just from breathing into a machine.

4:04 And through breath analysis, they can pick up the colon cancer or the lung cancer. And that’s going to be non-invasive, no needles, no scans, no radiation. So that will be an amazing addition if that pans out in the next few years. And on the other exciting front to follow up what we talked about with the Yamanaka genes and

4:23 OSK genes for partial epigenetic reprogramming, the results from the June 6th injection of the first three people with blindness came out, and two out of the three showed improvements in their peripheral vision and improvements in their retina. So now they’re going to be injected with another round of these OSK Yamanaka genes. So that study is moving forward,

4:44 and that’s probably one of the biggest stories in medicine in the last hundred years that we can actually reprogram ourselves and tell them to go back to a younger stage. So all these people who have glaucoma, retinitis pigmentosa, damaged retinas from diabetic retinopathy will have a possibility of getting their eyesight back in the next few years with this

5:10 advancement and this study. that is moving forward. And that’s why so many people have pumped so much money into these Yamanaka factors. It’s on the cover of Time magazine as well. And you can read more about this whole situation and all information in my new book, The Death of Aging on Amazon, which covers all this amazing new

5:30 technology to live long and prosper and all the different stories we cover. here on WABC to help people have a healthier life and health span, because it’s not about life span, it’s all about health span, living longer and healthier for many more years. Well, thank you, Dr. Peter Michlos, and I’ll meet you at the age of 100, maybe 110.

5:54 God willing, John, and it’s amazing to live in this exciting time with all these great advances coming out of the United States of America, the greatest country in the world. Thank you so much.