Parasites, Cancer
In this video, Omar Amin spends about 30 minutes speaking on "Parasites, Cancer" at the 41st Annual Cancer Convention held on Labor Day weekend by the Cancer Control Society.
About Omar Amin
OMAR AMIN, Ph.D. was born in Egypt and received his M.Sc. Degree in Zoology and M.S. in Medical Entomology from Cairo University. He later received his Ph.D. Degree in Parasitology and Infectious Diseases from Arizona State University, Tempe and his Post-Doctoral in Tick Borne Diseases Research from Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia. This was followed by Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever Research at the Center for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia.
His employment consisted of work at U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit #3 in Cairo, Egypt and University of Wisconsin, Kenosha teaching Epidemiology and 4 different courses in Parasitology.
Also he received many awards and grants given to him by different state agencies in support of his Parasitology Research. His Persian Gulf research was supported by Fulbright Research Scholarships.
Dr. Amin has over 160 published research papers to his credit. An equal number of presentations were made by him to various international and national scientific groups as well as a 5-part educational video set on parasites.
Presently, Dr. Amin is the Director of the Parasitology Center, Inc. (PCI) located in Tempe, Arizona. He can be reached by phone 480-767-2522, fax 480-767-5855, website www.parasitetesting.com and email [email protected].
The Center provides 2 services — Diagnostic Services of human and animal borne parasitic organisms and agents of medical and public health importance. Testing is done through the Center’s mailable kit.
The Educational Services include continuing education seminars and workshops. Consultations with referring practitioners and protocols for Herbal, Alternative and Allopathic Treatments are provided courtesy of the PCI.
Transcription
Thank you for being here today. I hope you can hear me well. I will try to speak up. I'm told I'm told them so spoken.
Soft spoken. So I will try to overcome this. My name is Omar.
I mean, we're going to go together on the journey today to explore the relationship between parasites and cancer, as well as parasites and other chronic infectious diseases. They're all very closely tied up together. If there's anything that you are going to forget today, please forget everything except a statement I'm going to tell you in the next couple of minutes. I hope you remember this in our cross-sectional studies in the United States. We have about 32 percent positive recovery yields of parasites of patients that we test. Stool, urine. Uh, blood. What have you, and that does not indicate or account for that patients that are not. Do not get to be tested. Our escape, the attention of the practicing physician in the United States. Regrettably, our medical practitioners are not trained to recognize the parasite infection. And accordingly, if that is lacking, then it becomes even more difficult to prescribe a test for a possible suspicion of a parasite case and then subsequently being able to treat that patient properly. So the emphasis of my talk will be on how to recognize a parasite infection, knowing, as we do know, that if 32 percent of the cross-sectional study in the United States shows positive infections of parasites and add another 10 percent or so for those, we should do not get to be tested. So roughly, I'd say at least 50 percent of the US population, all ages and both sexes are infected with parasites. Look around. And the next person sitting next to you may be the one that has the parasite infection because of obviously you're not the one. So if there's a hundred people here in this room, there's about 50 of you have parasite infections. So why is that important?
Parasite infections can present in acute cases or chronic cases.
One acute case is neglected or overlooked or not tested or not looked for or not properly diagnosed or tested or treated. It can very well develop into a chronic infection and chronic infections. Tissue damage takes place when the tissue is damaged. Tissue would attempt to regenerate itself, hopefully back to its normal state. And then quite often on the. You have a higher rate of turnover over a generation of damaged tissue ending up in metastases and cancer. When the tests reproduce beyond the call of duty, which happens quite often, especially in cases that are compromised by the immune system,