# 806 Lung Cancer: Risks, Diagnosis, and New Research - Best of Show 2015

The Staying Young Show

 

 

Show Topic: Lung Cancer: Risks, Diagnosis, and New Research

Co-Hosts: Judy Gaman, Mark Anderson, Walter Gaman

Guest: Kenneth Westover – in studio

Segment 1

Discussion 4.5 min.      

Today we spending the whole hour discussing lung cancer. Could you be at risk? Learn about the risks, diagnosis, and even the latest research as we are joined later this hour by lung cancer specialist Dr. Kenneth Westover from UT Southwestern Medical Center.

• (Connect) The frustrations the docs face when people refuse to stop smoking or they have other bad habits and don’t ever think it will happen to them.
• (Inspire) challenge every listener to give up smoking.

20 minutes after quitting

Your heart rate and blood pressure drop. (Effect of smoking on arterial stiffness and pulse pressure amplification, Mahmud A, Feely J. 2003. Hypertension:41:183)

12 hours after quitting

The carbon monoxide level in your blood drops to normal. (US Surgeon General's Report, 1988)

2 weeks to 3 months after quitting

Your circulation improves, meaning your blood is pumped better and your lungs work better. (US Surgeon General's Report, 1990)

1 to 9 months after quitting

Coughing and shortness of breath decrease; Lung function improves increasing the ability to handle mucus, clean the lungs, and reduce the risk of infection. (US Surgeon General's Report, 1990)

1 year after quitting

The excess risk of coronary heart disease is half that of a smoker's. (US Surgeon General's Report, 2010)

5 years after quitting

Your risk of stroke is reduced to that of a non-smoker 2-5 years after quitting. The risk of cancer of the mouth, throat, esophagus and bladder is cut in half after 5 years. (US Surgeon General's Report, 2010)

10 years after quitting

The lung cancer death rate is about half that of a person who is still smoking. (US Surgeon General's Report, 2010)

15 years after quitting

The risk of coronary heart disease is that of a non-smoker's. (US Surgeon General's Report, 1990)

 

MUSIC FOR DOC SHOCK (JIM)

If you are taking a PPI – Proton Pump Inhibitor, the medications used to treat ulcers and acid reflux, you need to hear this. Two new studies have emerged that show PPI class drugs can actually cause damage to the kidneys. These drugs were never intended to be used on a long term basis, but many people have been on them for years, causing irreversible damage to their kidneys.

 

A study out of Johns Hopkins University followed over 10K adults with normal kidney function from 1996 to 2011. They found that PPI users were between 20% and 50% more likely to develop CKD than non-PPI users, even after accounting for baseline differences. This discovery was replicated in a second study with over 240,000 patients who were followed from 1997 to 2014. This is significant!

 

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Segment 2

 

About tease – 1 min. – coming up – our very special guest Dr. Kenneth Westover from UT Southwestern will be here to talk about some of the latest research on lung cancer. If you know someone who is suffering from lung cancer, remember, you can always download this and all our shows by going to stayyoungamerica.com and subscribing to the podcast versions of the shows.

 

ANDERSON - Immortal minute – 2 min.

Start with sponsorship statement below!!!!!!!

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Today’s show is all about lung cancer, prevention, diagnosis, and the latest research and treatments. We have a very special guest on with us, Dr. Kenneth Westover from UT Southwestern Medical Center. He was actually recruited by them because of the work he did at Harvard as a scientist and radiation oncologist. He’s been published time and time again, and today we have the distinct pleasure of having him right here with us on the Staying Young Show.

 

Discuss

1. What led you to your occupation? Why is this your passion
2. Some of your work on gene transcription was cited in a Nobel Prize of your mentor – tell us a little bit about that breakthrough
3. In what other ways has the treatment of lung cancer changed since you entered the field?
4. Take us through your day – what is it like working on the other side of cancer?

 

Tease 20 sec. - SHOUT OUT TO MILITARY, Facebook (stay young media group) , download podcasts – follow us on twitter @StayYoungMedia coming up - Jenny Santi will share some of her favorite giving stories.

 

Segment 3

Judy – Tease the upcoming Dementia Defender 844-WELL100

 

This whole hour is devoted to lung cancer, the prevention, diagnosis and treatment with our special guest Dr. Ken Westover from UT Southwestern Medical Center.

 

Discuss

 

1. Discuss current clinical trials in lung cancer treatment
2. Advice for prevention, diagnosis, and treatment by all docs

Judy tease DD – grab a pen! 844-well100. Podcasts itunes, stayyoungamerica.com 

Coming up Medical Mania Trivia and then at the end of the show - Dementia Defender Riddle of the day – your chance to win a free copy of the book Age to Perfection. Follow us on Twitter @StayYoungMedia

 

Judy Announcement tease DD 844-Well100 – 30 sec.

 

MEDICAL TRIVIA - Brenda Jackson: I can Still Shine 

1. How many scents can the nose remember? A.) Hundreds B) Thousands C) Millions

Answer: over 50,000

2. Your body has enough iron in it to make: A.) a 3 foot Rod B.) a 3 inch nail C.) none of the above

Answer: B 3” Nail

3. The strongest muscle in the human body is found where?

Answer: jaw (masseter muscle)

4. Does sweat by itself have a scent?

Answer: No – it’s the bacteria that mixes with it

5. True or false excessive body hair makes you smarter?

Answer: True

DEMENTIA DEFENDER

Is it correct that seven and five is thirteen or seven and five are thirteen?

 

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