Today, we're
talking about screening,
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and Dr. Marcum, you've
made it clear that there are
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some things we
should be screened for,
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and some things that
are really not necessary.
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Review that for us again...
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And I want to make this
very, very practical for people
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so when you leave here you'll
have at least 1 or 2 things
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that you can actually know
and apply to your life today.
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We want to give you
something with value.
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Not only that, something
you can take to your friends,
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and talk to other people
very intelligently about it.
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The first thing
is - in screenings,
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realize that one
size does not fit all.
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It's according to your risks.
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And the basic things
that should be screened for,
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the safety things, ABSOLUTELY!
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We talked about
skin cancer, ABSOLUTELY!
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If you're in a high risk group,
YES, you might even be screened
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for something
that's not recommended
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if you've had a
family history of it.
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We talked about
prostate testing,
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probably NOT, unless
you're in a high risk group...
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But you know,
that's very individual.
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We talked about colon cancer,
YES, but it's not necessarily
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always with a colonoscopy.
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We talked about lung cancer,
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that's probably a NO.
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But if you're a
smoker... Yes, absolutely!
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That's why all
size does not fit all.
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Now we talked about skin cancer.
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But we've also
talked about all the fear
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that comes from all
these tests! Yes, yes, yes
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Have you ever seen
those tests that go by...
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And they'll go by a
church or somewhere,
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and they'll look at
all your blood vessels. Yes
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Well sometimes that
scares people so to death,
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I get them running in and
say, "Oh, I got an aneurysm,
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I got this, I got that"
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You know, it just
scares them, and so that's why
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we wanted to talk to people
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about the different
screening test for that.
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Now, a couple of ones
we haven't talked about...
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for female - very important.
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That's Pap smears - that's
screening for cervical cancer.
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And they're recommending those
to lower the risk of cervical
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that we screen every 3
years in women after age 21
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Now if the results of
that smear are negative,
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they check it
every year until age 65.
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And here's an
interesting statistic
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that I want to
share with everyone...
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Half the women who
die of cervical cancer,
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one-half never
had a Pap smear ever,
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and 90% of those had
not had one in 10 years.
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So this is another thing that
is preventable if caught early.
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Notice in cancers - we're
not saying that the treatment
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is the thing that fixes
it, but catching it early,
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getting rid of it, dealing
with it before it becomes
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spread out of place.
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Now another one is mammograms.
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You know, getting the
breasts checked on women.
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Now, if you are
a high risk group,
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if someone in your
family has had breast cancer,
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you'll want to get it
screened even more vigilantly.
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They screen it
with breast self-exams;
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they screen it with mammograms,
and the debate continues...
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But the party line
right now is the current
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screening recommendations
is annual screenings...
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That means every year
for women over 40 years old.
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Now that's without a breast
cancer history, family history,
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no obesity or cigarette use,
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it's even more reason to
wait until a baseline at 40,
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but if you have those red flags,
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you might get screened earlier,
I think we've talked about that.
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Now after the age of 70,
no screening is suggested.
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You know, now if you ever see
a mass or anything at any time,
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you need to get that
evaluated immediately.
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Now are there
risks for mammograms?
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Yes, there is some
small risk of that,
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and everything is about
the risks versus the benefits.
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Mammograms do emit a
little bit of radiation.
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And another hot topic is
breast cancer genetic screening.
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You know, and
people that are high risk,
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should they have the genetic,
saying, "Listen you're going
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to get it later in life -
should we do something early on
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to lower your risk even greater.
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And I think that's going to
be the future in some of these
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cancers - is look at
our genetics and see who is
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more susceptible than others.
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But in talking about
all this, the bottom line is
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when it comes to screenings are
screenings are just guidelines.
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One size does not
fit all and you have to
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learn about it
itself - what works for you
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based on your
whole health history.
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But for sure, I want everyone
to be proactive about the
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simple things to do.
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How about
screening for happiness?
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For mental health? For exercise?
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For eating well?
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And all of those things affect
the other parts too. YES, YES!
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All right! And
it's sort of a skewed
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thing that we
get into, Charles...
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In other words, if you
are a real angry vegetarian,
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there's going to be a
problem there. Exactly!
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But think about the
world that we've created...
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We screen for all these
scary things and things that are
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important to talk
about and deal with,
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at early ages,
we don't talk about.
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Like, Charles, did you talk
to somebody today? Yes I did.
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You know, Charles, screen for
mental health, for happiness,
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for exercise... Did you
get out and move the parts?
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Did you screen for certain
nutrients, like vitamin D?
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All of those things are
just if not MORE important,
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than all these scary cancer
screenings that we get into...
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Not that they're not important,
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but we have to screen for
all sorts of health things,
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and that's why I'm glad people
are watching this program today
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because I want them
to look at their health,
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and screen for these things;
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things that we put in our body;
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things that we
think in our brain,
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and also screen
for your relationships.
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Is your relationships
healthy with each other?
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Are they healthy with God?
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And what are the
little things that I can do
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to get better at all of this?
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This is all part
of screening health!
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This makes us
part of the process,
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and that's what is
so exciting about that,
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that there are things
that we can do in our lives,
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in our day to day existence.
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It's almost like prescreening.
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We are screening the screening!
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We are getting ready to
know what we need to screen for
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by our lifestyle choices.
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Yeah, and your doctor
really should be a coach.
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You know, he's coaching the
team and we're all on team to
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get to heaven to be with God,
to help other people get there,
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to be loving and happy.
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We're all on the same team.
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We all have the same goal
and the coach should be there
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helping you at every
different aspect of your life,
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including the
ones we talked about,
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but not being so fearful
that we forget some of the other
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even more important screening.
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How about - you know some
doctors won't even mention
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if someone carries
a little extra weight,
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you know, they won't
even mention it anymore,
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but you gotta mention
that if you love somebody
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...I call it
"tough love," Charles!
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Do you ever give any
tough love to anybody?
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Sometimes I
have to do that, yes,
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and I've been the
recipient of tough love,
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and it's really - when
you stop and think about it,
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and you look back at
it, it was a good idea
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that that tough love came along.
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You know and I
tell people sometimes...
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you know, "I love you
enough to tell you this"
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"I know you
don't want to hear it"
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You love me enough to tell me
this - I don't want to hear it!
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It works both ways,
but in a good relationship
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that's the way it should do.
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Hey! Do we have some questions
that have come in? We DO from
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heartwiseministries.
org is the website
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I want to invite our viewers,
if you want to be part of
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this program, you go to
heartwiseministries. org
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and leave a question and
we will address them here
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like we're doing right here.
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All right, here is
the first question!
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This is on the
topic of screenings.
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"My dad died from
colon cancer at age 47,
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when should I be screened?"
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His dad died at 47...
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I think this brings up a couple
of points that we had before.
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Unfortunately, genetic
things run in families,
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and that's why doctors do a
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careful genetic
history of people.
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If your dad had it
at 47, I would at least
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start your first, and this
one I would do the big screen,
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the colonoscopy.
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I would start that at age 37,
10 years before, I would get it.
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And if you've missed that date,
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I would run in as
soon as I could get that.
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You know, I love answering
people's questions, Charles,
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because that's where we
sort of develop relationships
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This program helps meet
their needs when we do that.
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A lot of programs
don't meet people's needs,
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but it always lets us
be in touch with people.
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People are scared of these
things and they're CONCERNED,
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but that's what I would
do for this gentleman...
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I would check it at
age 37 and this one,
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I would do the big colonoscopy.
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Now if he was 55 years old
and never had any colon cancer
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that eat a
healthy fiber-filled diet,
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I might just go
with the 3 guaiac cards.
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If it was that situation,
but it's not that situation.
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I mean, genetics is
not a guarantee that you're
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going to get this
problem... No, it's not,
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but you know what, if
they find a precancerous
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polyp in your colon at an
early age, they can remove it,
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and the cancer is
gone! All right, okay
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They'll screen for it
again in another 5 years.
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Here's another question
from heartwiseministries. org
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"My mammogram was abnormal
and a biopsy was recommended,
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is this standard procedure?"
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If a mammogram is
abnormal, biopsy automatically?
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Yeah, again we're talking
about the risk of breast cancer.
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And some of the
greatest improvements
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in breast cancer
is early detection.
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Absolutely! If
you feel a funny mass,
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if you have a mammogram
that doesn't pick up something,
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I would have a biopsy -
get a definitive diagnosis.
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It might be
negative, but this is one
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you do not want to miss
because if cancer spreads,
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it's much harder to deal with
it as if it's just in one site.
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So cancer is
something that's very serious,
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yet we're so afraid of it, when
we shouldn't be afraid of it.
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How do we know when we
should be afraid of it?
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I like the word "concerned"
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We want to detect
it early if we can,
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but then it - also in our
lives, we want to do things
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that lower our risk
of getting cancer too.
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We want to lower our risk of
all of these health problems.
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You know, whether it be
eating a fiber-filled diet,
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not staying out in
the sun for skin cancer,
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not carrying extra weight.
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That's that prescreening
you were talking about. Yes
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That's not carrying
extra weight for breast cancer.
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All those things that
will lower our risk...
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Not smoking cigarettes
for certain types of cancer.
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We want to do that,
as well as to screen
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and to see if we've got
some bad genetics as well.
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So a good
screening program does both.
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It prevents - as
well as it detects early.
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Okay, another question
from heartwiseministries. org
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"Skin cancer is
a concern for me;
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Oh boy... are tanning
beds dangerous to your skin?"
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I've heard people talk
about this... tanning beds.
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You've heard people talk about
TALK about this? Yes, I have.
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Can I ask you who
you've heard talk about this?
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Friends and neighbors -
people that look very, NOT me
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Do they have nice
tans? No... YEAH they do!
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They look good... it was not me!
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It was not me, I've never
been in one, so I wouldn't know.
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Tanning beds is a
NO, is a no... Really?
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Yeah, it' just a no - it damages
your skin. You LOOK good!
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You look good, but
it damages your skin;
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it raises the chance
of you having cancers.
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We can't recommend tanning
beds, they are dangerous.
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In fact, even being out in the
sun, where you burn too much,
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that's going to raise
your chance, over a lifetime,
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of skin cancer.
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And notice, most
of these exposures,
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for long periods of time,
exposures to extra weight,
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exposure to cigarettes,
exposure to bad diets...
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It doesn't happen
usually right away,
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over years and years and
years, and then eventually
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the malignant cells start
to show up and start to divide.
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In other words, if
somebody wanted to look good
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on their wedding
day, and they went into a
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tanning bed so they'd
look really good marching
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down the aisle and they looked
all tanned and everything.
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They did that one time -
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that's not
going to be a concern?
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Is that what you did,
Charles? NO! This is not ME
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we're talking
about... Okay, not you
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No, it probably in the
great scheme of things,
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it probably wouldn't
make THAT big of a deal,
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but it's still
better if you didn't do it.
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It would be better if you
just get a little sun everyday,
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get outside, be the
healthy, that kind of things,
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but I think in talking
about screenings today,
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we want to let people
know 2 things, Charles...
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#1... is that
screening doesn't fit all.
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#2... Try not to be
scared of screenings;
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detect things early
on, and then make sure
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in the addition
to the screenings,
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you're doing things so you
prevent the things that the
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screenings might be used
for, does that make sense?
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It does, it certainly does...
Now that was not very well
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articulated... That was fine
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I'm still wondering
whether you're hiding a
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tanning bed from me. I
am NOT hiding anything...
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A tanning bed at your house!
Oh no, now I got so embarrassed.
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Now I'm all red, as
said... You're tanned!
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There you go! If
you want to look good,
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just talk to him for a while.
Well, we're almost out of time.
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Just talk to him for a
while and you'll have a
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nice, rosy, glow.
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When we come back,
Dr. Marcum has some
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final words for us and we'll
also go to the Master Physician,
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the Ultimate Physician
and we'll talk to Him about
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your needs, our needs
and the needs of this world,
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so stay right where you are.
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There are 2 things that I would
want to leave with you today
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regarding screenings.
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#1... Think about it,
think about what in my life
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should I have screened.
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Of course, we
talked about cancer,
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but think about all
of those other things
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that you need to have screening.
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And #2, if you have a
loved one or a friend,
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talk to them about how they
can have better health as well.
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Let me pray with you...
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Father God, I just want
to thank each person here
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and invite them to have
the best health, Father,
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and please go with
them and be a part of their
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treatment plan...
is our prayer, Amen
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I'm glad each one of
you join us each week
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on the Ultimate Prescription,
where we try to reach
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your needs, give one or
two things that you can take
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and remember - this is a
program that you can take
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to your friends and neighbors
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and help THEM come
into a relationship with the
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Ultimate Prescription
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