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carol sikora, consultant, oncologisttc ,the united kingdom. dr. sikora, thank you for joinin fg us. what what have you heard about her diagnosis that leads you to be either very concerned or cautiously optimist? >> i'm very optimistic. and she said her statement, beautiful statement on the bench that the daffodil s in thes in the background, that it was prevention, chemotherapy, which in medical journalh s madechemoe adjuvant chemotherapy, probably colon cancer colon standard reg, 4 to 6 months of chemotherapy. o and you know, what we do in oncology today is to tailorid the treatment to the patient. personalized medicine is here to stay pioneered here in the united states. we work ou t the risk of someone developing a recurrence of the disease and if the risk is significant beyond 5 to 10%, it's different in the states. it's slightly lower there than here we're c more conservative. weon give adjuvant chemotherapoy that seems to be more options. i'm not involved treatment, so i'm not betraying any co since she's being treated well by my colleagues. and sure, she'll get through this.
carol sikora, consultant, oncologisttc ,the united kingdom. dr. sikora, thank you for joinin fg us. what what have you heard about her diagnosis that leads you to be either very concerned or cautiously optimist? >> i'm very optimistic. and she said her statement, beautiful statement on the bench that the daffodil s in thes in the background, that it was prevention, chemotherapy, which in medical journalh s madechemoe adjuvant chemotherapy, probably colon cancer colon standard reg, 4 to 6...
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good to see you this sikora.ee you this morning, first and foremost, what is preventative chemotherapy ? chemotherapy? >> we call it adjuvant chemotherapy in in medical terms, adjuvant just means to help, she's had surgery . and now help, she's had surgery. and now what we do we try and personalise treatment when i began nearly 50 years ago in cancer , everybody got the same cancer, everybody got the same thing. now it's very personal. we look at all the data, the pathology , the imaging, the pathology, the imaging, the biopsies from the operation and then even more now, a molecular analysis looking at genes, gene, proteins and other factors in the tumour in a very sophisticated way to predict the risk of it coming back if the risk of it coming back if the risk is very low, someone may just have surgery. >> if the risk is higher, we recommend chemotherapy. adjuvant chemotherapy. and that's probably what's happening. you know, we don't want to speculate where it's coming from or anything, but you know for many dif
good to see you this sikora.ee you this morning, first and foremost, what is preventative chemotherapy ? chemotherapy? >> we call it adjuvant chemotherapy in in medical terms, adjuvant just means to help, she's had surgery . and now help, she's had surgery. and now what we do we try and personalise treatment when i began nearly 50 years ago in cancer , everybody got the same cancer, everybody got the same thing. now it's very personal. we look at all the data, the pathology , the imaging,...
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now i'm joined by a consultant oncologist, karol sikora. now good evening to you, carol. news. so many people now are affected by cancer. it's just i mean , it is so i mean, carol, mean, it is so i mean, carol, i'm just sharing. i'm i'm, you know, inundated with imagery of loved ones that have survived cancen loved ones that have survived cancer. sadly, some of them haven't , but the cancer, you haven't, but the cancer, you know, diagnoses now science and medicine etc. has evolved so much more now, hasn't it ? much more now, hasn't it? >> it has. and it's partly we're all living longer and cancer is predominantly a disease of older people. but as you can see with kate, she's not an old woman. she's 42. so it does affect young people , cancer research uk young people, cancer research uk calculated it affects 1 in 2 of us now. and, you know, i've been a consultant for over 40 years and i've never seen so many people get cancer as now it's just part of the ageing process and part of the fact that our, our lifestyle is not the greatest, i guess. >> indeed. and it's really tou
now i'm joined by a consultant oncologist, karol sikora. now good evening to you, carol. news. so many people now are affected by cancer. it's just i mean , it is so i mean, carol, mean, it is so i mean, carol, i'm just sharing. i'm i'm, you know, inundated with imagery of loved ones that have survived cancen loved ones that have survived cancer. sadly, some of them haven't , but the cancer, you haven't, but the cancer, you know, diagnoses now science and medicine etc. has evolved so much more...
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now i'm joined by a consultant oncologist, karol sikora. now good evening to you, carol.ews. so many people now are affected by cancer. it's just i mean , it is so i mean, carol, mean, it is so i mean, carol, i'm just sharing. i'm i'm, you know, inundated with imagery of loved ones that have survived cancen loved ones that have survived cancer. sadly, some of them haven't , but the cancer, you haven't, but the cancer, you know, diagnoses now science and medicine etc. has evolved so much more now, hasn't it ? much more now, hasn't it? >> it has. and it's partly we're all living longer and cancer is predominantly a disease of older people. but as you can see with kate, she's not an old woman. she's 42. so it does affect young people , cancer research uk young people, cancer research uk calculated it affects 1 in 2 of us now. and, you know, i've been a consultant for over 40 years and i've never seen so many people get cancer as now it's just part of the ageing process and part of the fact that our, our lifestyle is not the greatest, i guess. >> indeed. and it's really tough
now i'm joined by a consultant oncologist, karol sikora. now good evening to you, carol.ews. so many people now are affected by cancer. it's just i mean , it is so i mean, carol, mean, it is so i mean, carol, i'm just sharing. i'm i'm, you know, inundated with imagery of loved ones that have survived cancen loved ones that have survived cancer. sadly, some of them haven't , but the cancer, you haven't, but the cancer, you know, diagnoses now science and medicine etc. has evolved so much more...
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professor karol sikora, great to get your view on all of this.m next month, every nhs suppuen tom, from next month, every nhs supplier. so any company or whatever that sells a product, a medicine, a machine will have to draw up a carbon reduction plan . draw up a carbon reduction plan. i mean, seriously, so this isn't just seriously ass dragging itself down and building its costs up because of its own regulation. >> this is now the nhs exporting its regulation to the private sector. if you want to do business with the nhs, you have to lumber your business with as much bureaucracy as they have. >> so if i want to sell a particular medicine to the nhs or an asthma inhaler or a particular type of pen to the nhs, because it could be down to the pens they use, i have to fill in a carbon reduction plan. >> and do you what that >> and do you know what that means? it won't be the cheapest pens the value for money pens or the best value for money pens or the best value for money pens being sold and therefore saving the money and saving the nhs money and t
professor karol sikora, great to get your view on all of this.m next month, every nhs suppuen tom, from next month, every nhs supplier. so any company or whatever that sells a product, a medicine, a machine will have to draw up a carbon reduction plan . draw up a carbon reduction plan. i mean, seriously, so this isn't just seriously ass dragging itself down and building its costs up because of its own regulation. >> this is now the nhs exporting its regulation to the private sector. if...
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sikora, no one can speculate, we don't know what kind of cancer it is. did make a few comments about abdominal surgery. one of my very close friends who i got to know during my own issue with cancer said who knows what this is but if i had to guess, i would guess it was ovarian cancer, early stages, and i bet she is on ajanuvia vent regiment. tar bow plat tent taxal for three to six months. people tend to deal with that, you know, pretty well considering what some of the old chemos were like. >> it's not fun having chemotherapy. >> laura: no. >> i have been an attending physician for over 40 years. it's really improved dramatically on both sides of the atlantic. we look after patients better, nurses are doing the chemotherapy, not doctors. and it really -- we have better drugs to control the side effects, especially the sickness and the other side effects of chemotherapy. one of the problems we haven't been able to defeat is the tiredness that comes with it. you just get tired. just going to hospitals so regularly, having blood tests. having scans. havin
sikora, no one can speculate, we don't know what kind of cancer it is. did make a few comments about abdominal surgery. one of my very close friends who i got to know during my own issue with cancer said who knows what this is but if i had to guess, i would guess it was ovarian cancer, early stages, and i bet she is on ajanuvia vent regiment. tar bow plat tent taxal for three to six months. people tend to deal with that, you know, pretty well considering what some of the old chemos were like....
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i and my very good colleague karol sikora, we both shouted from the rooftops, do not do this for ouras there a fundamental philosophical error about the argument you had protect argument that you had to protect the actually the nhs? because actually the nhs protect us, not nhs is there to protect us, not the way round. it's not the other way round. it's not there to their there for people to lead their lives, to stop putting a burden on it's there look on the nhs. it's there to look after people have fallen ill. >> of course it should be. and one of the big problems that this this is shown and what the inquiry should really unveil. why was there no debate? why were myself were people like myself dismissed being dismissed possibly as being a maverick people call me. maverick of some people call me. but i found that there are dozens of people who gave the same advice to the government, and we were completely ignored. there was debate this, there was no debate about this, and i a great admirer of the and i was a great admirer of the swedish angus who swedish angus tegnell, who basically
i and my very good colleague karol sikora, we both shouted from the rooftops, do not do this for ouras there a fundamental philosophical error about the argument you had protect argument that you had to protect the actually the nhs? because actually the nhs protect us, not nhs is there to protect us, not the way round. it's not the other way round. it's not there to their there for people to lead their lives, to stop putting a burden on it's there look on the nhs. it's there to look after...
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what does that mean, who better to answer the question than consultant oncologist karol sikora, the formerhealth organisation's cancer program? good evening. carol thanks for joining us. what does that mean? preventative chemotherapy . preventative chemotherapy. >> well, modern oncology is just tremendous. what we try to do is to assess the risk of a tumour coming back and then tailor the treatment to the patient. so what's happened here? one assumes it's probably a colon cancer because that was the operation she had. it's in pubuc operation she had. it's in public knowledge and it's been decided that there was a cancer. there and it may be a slightly risky cancer and therefore chemotherapy is being given modern cancer treatment involves trying to personalise the treatment to the risk of recurrence. so it's not bad news. it's not it's not a disaster. it's a bit of a shock for the family and for kate and for the family and for kate and for all of us. but there's no doubt the chances of success are great with modern treatment, and the chemotherapy is there to prevent it coming back. we call
what does that mean, who better to answer the question than consultant oncologist karol sikora, the formerhealth organisation's cancer program? good evening. carol thanks for joining us. what does that mean? preventative chemotherapy . preventative chemotherapy. >> well, modern oncology is just tremendous. what we try to do is to assess the risk of a tumour coming back and then tailor the treatment to the patient. so what's happened here? one assumes it's probably a colon cancer because...