Cancer Self-Assessment
In this video, George Delgado spends about 22 minutes speaking on "Cancer Self-Assessment " at the 38th Annual Cancer Convention held on Labor Day weekend by the Cancer Control Society.
About George Delgado
GEORGE DELGADO, M.D. received his Medical Degree from the University of California, Davis and completed his Family Medicine Residency at Santa Monica/UCLA Medical Center, California. Dr. Delgado is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians as well as a Voluntary Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at UC San Diego, California. He has been a board-certified Family Physician with over 15 years in Clinical Practice.
Dr. Delgado has been working with the "You Test You" Program to offer the Cancer Assessment to patients since December 2009. He feels this is a great test for people who want to take charge of their health and make better health decisions. Routine blood testing of the marker tFFDP can lead to better outcomes by detecting cancer earlier, which will enable Physicians to treat earlier.
Transcription
Thank you very much, and it's really a great honor and a privilege to be here today. And I know that some of your people who are living with cancer, others are health or wellness practitioners and others are just people who are interested in cancer. So I think what we're going to talk about today will be of great interest to to all of us.
So we're going to talk today first about cancer and early detection. Our cancer assessment tests the you test you the clinical data behind this. And finally, what I feel are some really wonderful test benefits for people who want to do this test. So first, let's talk about the global can't cancer crisis. The World Health Organization tells us that either right now or very soon, cancer will overtake cardiovascular disease as the number one killer of people in the world and that by the year 2030, the cancer burden, the number of cancer cases will double. And the World Health Organization, although also says that perhaps one third of cancer suffering can be eliminated if we spend more time, more energy, more money on early detection. There's a lot of community support for early detection. The World Health Organization say it's that cancer early detection greatly increases the chance of successful treatment. The American Cancer Society says that if you can't prevent cancer, the very next best thing is to detect it early when it's more curable. The prestigious Mayo Clinic says that regular screening and self-examination may not prevent cancer, but it increases your odds of finding the cancer early when it's most treatable. And M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston says the best defense against cancer is recognizing symptoms early and detecting the disease before it's able to progress and knowing what tools you have at your disposal is very important. So let's look here at these graphs now, and you can see that this is where we have local cancer, regional and distant. And when the cancer is at their early stages for most of these, except for lung cancer, it's highly curable, as you see on the right side of the graph. The father advanced the cancer is the less curable it is. So we want to detect the cancer really when it's here, when it's much more treatable and curable. Let's look at the benefits of the new tests to cancer assessment test. It's a simple blood test. Just takes one small tube of blood and there's evaluation of the test results by a medical doctor. Or if you have your own physician who who can analyze it and you can do it that way. It's innate