or I should stay home so I’ll let you
decide but we’ve been at this for a long
time so to hear what you got in here
today and I know this topic is a problem
for a lot of people it’s touched us for
so long on promise that wasn’t gonna do
this and so I think I’ve been at this
for 30 years and I think I can bring a
different conclusion to this whole thing
what I’d like to do is bring on a
journey from where I was trained in the
70s which were something you weren’t
even born yet so back to where I am
today and back in the 70s it was very
aggressive surgery for breast cancer we
were gonna teach that cancer a lesson
the bigger the tumor the bigger the
knife we got out and and and that and
end up in the surgery took two hours we
had two assistants with big retractors
and patients spent days in the hospital
trying to just move her arm again okay
that’s how I was trained
we obliterated women unnecessarily as it
turns out but it took a long time to
come to the conclusion that you don’t
have to do it if you just don’t follow
the recipe everybody follows so from
there I treat now with the FDA approved
it’s called scenario specific a to
system uses liquid nitrogen it’s about
minus 300 degrees so it’s pretty cold if
you stick your finger in it and flick it
it will fall off so I have to be really
careful because I’m dealing with the
breast you know come on guys
you know and so procedure lasts about 20
minutes they resume normal activity and
I haven’t even put a stitch in
and it’s so good that I at this point in
time I invite members of the family and
to hold the patient’s hand can you
believe that you know so in fact if one
of the patients her husband was a lawyer
so I invited him in and that was
probably the first time an attorney had
ever watched something like this or any
doctor invited an attorney into a
procedure yeah it’s it’s it’s really
that good I knew I was walking on
hallowed ground when I when I when I did
my first cases in fact one of my
patients the first time we did this
immediately after the procedure she said
she felt so hungry she wanted to go
across the street so we all went across
the street to lavender Bistro and lucky
that it’s a high-end restaurant and when
in 15 minutes she was eating lobster
salad and we toasted killing her cancer
so two year over two years later when I
just looked at her mammogram no cancer
on it okay it was clear as a bell I
pumped my fist and I wiped the tear like
I’m doing huh because I knew I knew I
had an answer to a problem that has
plagued us since recorded medical
history 2300 BC the Edwin Smith papyrus
you can look it up they didn’t know how
to treat breast cancer then they said
they didn’t know what to do they just
threw their hands up so my wife actually
came up with with the name she says you
realize what happened we should just
call this the lavender way I said okay
so that’s what it is
the lavender way encompasses three
things pharmacogenomics multiple
modalities without radiation use
mammography – I don’t want to unplug
mammography machines it’s a really great
great tool been with us for a long time
and then the treatment and it’s all done
under the umbrella of what I call
sanctuary centers where we take breast
cancer doctors out of behind a
metaphorical wall at these cancer
centers because you don’t get to see
these guys these guys spend a lot of
time getting educated and know a lot
about breast cancer but they don’t have
any interaction with you until you come
in with a lump and they try and put you
back together again so I figured let’s
look let’s get these guys out from
behind a wall and into making a
relationship with these girls early on
so that the idea is maybe a twenty
something or a 30 something year old
when she wants to know no pressure she
comes in we do the genetic testing this
isn’t Braca one and two that’s only good
for 10% of the population so we have the
capability now in every girl not to just
know her risk but when that risk will
likely manaphy
within about 10 years during her
lifetime yep it’s like having a crystal
ball for me finally there were all these
years sorry and if you’ve seen the
devastation like I had I had a girl died
in my arms for God’s sake back in the
hospital 20 years ago before she died I
told her that I i would not relent until
i had an answer excuse me
this gets really tough for me because
gps dermatologists don’t deal with this
stuff and it’s really difficult when you
can’t do anymore for a patient but now I
so it’s an umbrella of nurturing
environment for these women and there’s
no pressure and we we do this years
before she’s gonna you know ever
encounter breast cancer and the idea is
to prevent it all together in the also
the idea is that if we get this right
now we have the technology where I can
zero in on these cancers when they’re
about four millimeters that’s about the
size of a kernel of corn okay and at
that size virtually none of those don’t
say none because it’s cancer and it does
what it does but even if a cancer has
potential to be very aggressive later on
probably isn’t when it’s this big okay
the average sized tumor is over a
centimeter and size that has a billion
cancer cells in it and probably has
metastatic disease already cancer that’s
spread so the idea is to get it before
we do that and then I was trained in the
70s to get it all and guess what it
didn’t work did it
because otherwise 40,000 women wouldn’t
be dying every year okay
and and that’s a problem and then so if
we get if we know when the cancers
coming we can plan out for her a
lifelong
personalized surveillance program and as
the time approaches where that cancer is
gonna we think it’s coming we can just
go ahead and accelerate the imaging so
we find these little tiny cancers okay
ultra small cancers I call them so I use
three I use three modalities I use
modified military infrared this isn’t
your father’s thermography from the
seventies that everybody says doesn’t
work this works plenty good otherwise
the military wouldn’t be using it so
Bush Declassified this and it not only
has you in it just detects heat
signatures in the breast and there’s no
there’s no there’s no compression girls
so there’s not like mammography and it
also has artificial intelligence so it
has the capability once it knows your
heat signatures it runs it by just
instantaneously by five hundred girls
that are in the computer that have
abnormal infrared heat signature and
breast cancer so it’ll tell me right
away basically so it can really it’s
really differentiated between benign and
malignant disease for me and in some
cases it’s it’s actually one of the
drawbacks with this stuff we’re working
on refining it but one of the drawbacks
is it’ll tell me there’s a cancer there
and mammography and MRI doesn’t pick it
up and then three years later bingo
there it is so we’re working on that
trust me I’m working on this like a hawk
because I want this what if we could get
it when there’s a millimeter okay then
it wouldn’t really finish chemotherapy
not that I have anything against it but
needs it okay so so that’s that’s really
where it’s at and I you know I think I
have an answer to this thing a workable
answer otherwise it wouldn’t be standing
here and not a problem though we’ve
depend enough on the same system for the
past thirty years okay and that is we’ve
told women we’ve sold mammography
probably better than anything else on
planet just go get a mammogram every
year do self breast exam and run a race
and everything’s gonna be okay and it
just isn’t is it
we still have the same 200,000 cases
every year into 40,000 deaths for as
long I think I can remember and if the
National Cancer Institute is right they
wrote a paper published it last year by
2030 we’re gonna have double the number
of breast cancer cases in this country
so that’ll be four hundred thousand and
if we do the same old same old
it’ll be eighty thousand deaths so if
we’re not prepared to do that then what
I’m calling for is this country has to
decide how it’s gonna treat women for
the next 20 years what do women mean to
us are we gonna change our attitude and
and see what’s out there or are we just
gonna do wait for the next drug that
extends life for three months no this
really works and I knew I was walking on
hallowed ground the light went off for
me when I combo at all these
technologies so I have the infrared
right in the office they’re right next
to it is my exam table next to that is
my ultrasound unit with elast Tigra
feels me whether something’s hard or
soft and we have Doppler flow and right
next to that is a view box so I can look
at the mammogram so I have that
capability to put all these together
right at every visit if I need to use
them and we do and so we find these
little tiny cancers it makes a big
difference because then we can do
lavender okay and just for everybody if
there’s any doctors in the audience
there say oh you can’t do that for
everybody because cancer is widespread
okay so we’re going to do genetic
studies on the tumor and if yeah so it’s
a four millimeter tumor and it’s
aggressive so you still want to do
sentinel lymph node biopsy or axillary
node surgery you can do that you can
still do chemotherapy but just leave the
breast alone because it doesn’t make any
difference it’s never been shown to be
better than lumpectomy we’ve spent 300
billion dollars since
Nixon pen the National Cancer Act in
1971 and part of that money went to
multiple clinical trials that proved
lumpectomy was just as good as
mastectomy now we have a movement in
this country called unko plastic surgery
so the surgeons are gearing up for more
radical surgery American College of
Surgeons in the paper came out last
month 2000 January 2016 and the titleist
was the title was bilateral mastectomy
driven by fear or prevention and one of
the writers said we are facing a tsunami
of requests for mastectomy I can only
say that you know this is wrong this is
really not good is this the answer we
have for women after 300 billion dollars
in 40 years of research that we’re gonna
take both breasts off why don’t we just
do it at puberty and then we’ll rid
ourselves of the whole damn problem guys
wouldn’t like that though No so yeah
you’re right yeah so it’s one of the
foundations of our country for God’s
sake so no we want to do this a
different way and so we need people to
to you know embrace this okay to look
around other rather than just looking
for the next drug so when I do this
procedure its outpatient procedure do it
under local anesthesia and as I said you
know they resume normal activity right
away and a couple of things I’ve
mentioned as the we kill the cancer and
about two months after we do core
biopsies on all these patients because I
want to make sure I kill the cancer so
we really don’t lose anything you can
look my you know you could always take
the breast off if you have to you can’t
put it back on so by doing the lavender
I kill it in 20 minutes with the saneras
physica 2 system and it’s dead and we
biopsy it and it’s dead it comes to the
pathology reports come back fat necrosis
and infarction and I almost fell off
because I lied to the pathologist I
didn’t tell them what I was doing
I didn’t tell him I what I was doing and
I wanted to see what he what they would
say and that’s what they said and that’s
what they all say okay and so so as the
dead cancer cells are absorbed in the
body because we don’t operate on the
patient that acts like a dead polio
virus so the patient’s own immune system
is producing specific antibodies against
her specific tumor that’s preliminary
data so you know it’ll take fifteen
years to to decide you know if this is
going to make a difference in terms of
recurrences or survival okay so but
that’s can’t hurt
I don’t think and then we also solve the
age-old problem of positive margins in
the same American College of Surgeons
article they said that the take back for
a second lumpectomy because oh there was
cancer at the 6 o’clock margin and in
the radio and a radiation therapist
doesn’t want to do radiation because
there’s there’s cancer there you have to
go back and get it okay so we go back
and get it 40% of the time is the
average okay and they had a 30%
complication rate in young women in 30
year olds 30% complication in and in 70
year olds the complication rate was 75%
come on where are these people I mean
come on we’ve got to do this better for the girls don’t