his 46-year-old son beau lost his battle with brain cancer last year. i would like to bring in a doctor from the university of texas. great to see you, doctor. thank you. i mean, just reading about, you know, your hospital. you all have done for years. you have this cancer moon shot initiative. you all have been in touch with the vice president in the past. but to hear the president talk about this monday shot of curing cancer in front of tens of millions of people, what were you thinking? frankly, this is an amazing day for patients and very bad day for cancer. the president announcing and charging the nation to make a decisive assault on the cancer problem and placing vice president beau biden in charge of this initiative, who has a deep passion and deep knowledge of science and technology is an extraordinary opportunity to really bend the arc of this disease once and for all. dr., i have to ask the
cancer eight fold or more. so why sound the alarm, then? because across the world yeah, michaela. why sound the alarm? he s mad because of the bacon. because we re talking about 7 plus billion people on earth. we re talking about a modifiable risk factor for cancer. and the truth factor for me, this is the edge of a bigger issue. the big problem right now that we face across the whole world is rising rates of obesity. and obesity is scheduled, if we can say such a thing, to replace tobacco as the leading modifiable risk factor for cancer, at least in western countries in the next few years. but back to the meat, so i know what to serve my kids this weekend, is it all meat or processed meat? for this report, it s about processed meat. but i actually think you re going to see the higher-calorie foods, higher-fat foods, all of these are contributing indirectly if not directly to the cancer problem, because of the link through obesity. so when we say processed,
exists. the truth is we need to have that information without the psa screening. you are going to see more and more men die. they are worried about money. they think surgery is unnecessary. and if they feel it is not accurate enough they look at the price. but the psa is cheap. it saves money and tells you, you might have a problem with the prostate and i send a patient who doesn t do surgery right away. and you might follow a trend or look at mri. and more and more imaging and if you need surgery. key is to give it while you are localized. it is unbelievable. you can get in there and get it out without blood loss and then you are looking at a cure. if you are a young man and looking at a life time of a cancer problem, chances was a