Dr. David Samadi
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first heard May 2025
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When he was assigned by President Obama to really take care of cancer and put stop to this, his mission was to make sure that the number of cancers are gone down, that we have all the cure and the best technology. So he's...
one person that he should be very aware, certainly of prostate cancer and many other cancers, it's impossible for me to imagine that these doctors would let him go for many years, certainly as an important job that he has, without screening. That doesn't make any sense to me.
Prostate-specific antigen, right.
Absolutely right. You're correct. So you look at the size of his prostate. Hopefully, good urologists have examined his prostate to feel because sometimes medical doctors may not detect it. So expertise plays a big role. But you look at the nodule, you look at the
The PSAs, if there's any questions, someone like him, given the family history of cancers and the fact that his son got into trouble because of cancer and many other families, don't forget he also has a history of skin cancer. So the family are very well aware of what to do.
And any red flag in his PSA or exam would have sent them for an MRI, would have given them like PET scan, and they've been able to detect this. So the fact that he's at 82, shows up with stage 4 glycine 9 with metastases, it's really unfortunate. And, you know, I don't know what to say about this. Obviously, I wish him well.
And if there's anything we can do to help, I've written about this in this book that just came out recently, Prostate Cancer, Now What? But stage four is very difficult because they got to get the hormonal treatment. Now they can go on for many years as long as the hormone is sensitive.
That's another thing that they mentioned in the article is diagnosed with glycine, metastases, and it's hormonal sensitive. Now, I don't know how they know this, because they have to give the injections. The PSA has to go down to zero. And as long as he responds to these hormonal treatments, fine. He will be there.
The day that he would become resistant to these hormones, unfortunately, then he has to go for chemotherapy and the outcome and results of those are very poor and most patients don't do well.
Right, exactly. So if it was just a week ago, they had the prostate nodule. Within a week, they did the biopsy and they got the disease. So very quickly, within one week, based on the story that they're telling, they've been able to do the staging part and find out if the cancer is spread to the bone or not. But you have to give the injections and see if the patient responds.
We don't know what his PSA is. If the PSA starts to go down, then that's when you know that he's hormonal sensitive. I don't know how they will be able to give all of this information from diagnosis to treatment to all of that within one week. The story doesn't make any sense.
Well, I think that's possible to be able to get him. I mean, he was the president of this country. So getting a bone scan, he's not going to wait like the rest of the country. And in this country, unlike other countries like Canada and other countries, people don't wait six months to get a bone scan. So I think they can put him through fast-tracked.
But again, the biggest—and I got so many phone calls and questions about the fact that how can someone be great a year ago, and within a year, you will have stage four with metastasis. And this is like to answer a lot of men out there who are diagnosed with prostate cancer. Number one— A lot of patients are on surveillance or close surveillance or watchful waiting.
We're monitoring them because they have low-risk prostate cancer. You need to be in the hands of experts on prostate cancer and always get a second opinion because it can advance. Now, that's another scenario, Megan, because maybe he had 10, 12 years ago a moderate-risk prostate cancer, and they told him, just watch this. It's not aggressive.
you know, you don't need to affect your political thing. And over time it advanced to glycine and then unfortunately metastases. So there's a lot more unknown than, than answers that we have, but given the fact that you're, you're raising a good point because I like, it's just now occurring to me.
That's correct. So it's not a typical story where within a year you would end up with a stage four prostate cancer. And the message that I think you're bringing up to save many more men out there who may or may not know about prostate cancer is beginning age 40, get your baseline PSA. And if you have family history, make sure you're more aggressive with getting screened.
Screening is important because when you find the cancer within the walls of prostate, the cure, 10-year survival is close to 100%. Once the prostate cancer starts to leak, and again, we don't know when he was diagnosed, how many years he's had it, and maybe they just monitored him and watched him. And we know a lot of people in America are on close surveillance and there's some danger to that.
But once it starts to leak, Then you're going to go to radiation and hormonal treatment. And then the final stage, and that's one of the reasons why I tell you, Megan, this has been going on for many years. Either he knew about it or he didn't know about it. That's a whole different political issue. you're bringing up and he should have had as a as a president, he should have these answers.
Once you get to stage four, unfortunately, it's a painful experience with a lot of complications from this hormonal treatment. And you're right, some of these hormonal treatment not only can affect his heart, but can affect his mental status and mental health issues. So he really need to surround himself with, you know, aggressive doctors who are going to monitor him very closely.
I think the scary part, which is the sexual dysfunction and continence, a lot of that has gone away with the world of expertise and years and years of number of cases that we've done and the technique that we have developed in the hands of expert surgeons, robotic prostate surgery, Both sexual function and continence works well. Now, you talk about impotence.
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