bombardment than baghdad has been known for, but more billboards like this will go up promising procedures that will erase the scars of iraqis standing in contrast to a city pock marked by years of war. >> and that's it for us. thanks for joining us. "larry king live" starts right now. >> larry: special edition of "larry king live." they are hanging to a shred of hope in west virginia as workers continue to vent the deadly gases. a press conference is underway. let's get the latest from cnn's brooke baldwin on the scene. >> reporter: larry, huge announcement as we were just listening to the news conference. it was kevin strickland with msha. it's the first time we heard anyone talk about the next phase of this rescue mission which is when they would send in these 30

guys. he mentioned six teams going in under the mine and try to get to the rescue chamber. this massive, long, pain staking process has taken what seems like an eternity for all these families in west virginia waiting for news. what's taken so long essentially is they've got these five holes they're planning on drilling, one of which, just one has made it all the way down to the mine, that 1100 feet down. they've been testing the air quality. we just heard, msha was saying it's finally improved, so he's saying hopefully soon they will be able to send the rescuers in and hopefully find these missing miners in this rescue chamber. larry? >> larry: brooke, we understand that president obama reached out to some of the families who lost loved ones, is that true? >> reporter: that is true. i've seen the picture of the president on the phone from the oval office reaching out to some of these miners' families, offering condolences.

a bit of news for folks in west virginia. the west virginia basketball coach, they call him bob huggins visited here, that according to one of the congressmen was a huge deal for the folks out here. these families, as you can imagine, are waiting. they're furious with massey energy. they feel like the truth hasn't been given to them as fast as they would like. they have yet to hear the words i'm sorry, according to some i've talked to. >> larry: what about the families of the four missing miners? have you been in touch? how are they holding up? >> reporter: i have not been in touch. this has been so challenging covering this story. i was covering sago four years ago and it was easy to be in touch with those families because they were holed up in a church behind the row of media. those families are a couple miles away deep in this mining property. it's almost impossible for us

here to talk to the families, but from what i've been told, they have been told to go home, get sleep, take a shower. most of them have stayed put right up the road, holding out all hope. >> larry: we're talking about brooke baldwin. let's carry a little bit of the press conference now in progress. >> pegged our instruments, high methane, low oxygen. i would expect the air to be not as good as what we would like to see it be. >> do you believe there is a pocket of worse air? in regards to drilling of the hole? >> could you repeat that? >> earlier today, you talked about putting cameras down in the holes. if you are able to get in the mine tonight, the other things you were talking about at 3:30, is that suspended right now and focus mainly on -- >> it's not suspended. we're doing both operations at

the same time. our preference would be to rescue teams to go in and almost physically touch those refuge chambers. if the air is too bad or it's too unsafe, our plan b is to drill from the surface and use cameras. >> what's the estimated time it will take once they enter the mine to reach the chambers? >> i don't know exactly. as quickly as possible. >> however far do they have to travel? >> it's about five miles total to get into where the chambers are, i believe. >> would it be foot? >> no. we'll ride in as far as we can until we can't travel any further by ride and they'll walk the rest of the way. >> just to be absolutely clear, how many rescue chambers are we talking about that you need to check? >> two. >> has there been a break in the drilling at all since you started which would allow you to listen to the sounds that you hope to hear?

>> we have not had a break in the drilling. we think it's important to keep going right now with the drilling operation to get the bore holes in. it's important to get that in right now for us. >> their only mission would be to go see those -- >> larry: imagine surviving an explosion that killed at least 25 people. stanley stewart did just that. he was inside the mine monday when the blast sent him scrambling to survive. he joins us from west virginia. how are you doing physically and emotionally? how are you doing stanley? >> i'm doing okay, larry. >> larry: take us back. where were you -- >> i'm coping. >> larry: where were you when the blast occurred? >> i was approximately 300 feet inside the portal, sitting in the man trip. we were about to leave to head

to our section, and the air hit us. started out as a small breeze, it felt like. then it got hard, very hard. so i got out of the man trip quickly. i knew something was wrong. and i knew i needed to get outside. the wind intensified to what i felt like was gale force, hurricane like wind. my eyes were filling with dirt. i had to put my head down. i couldn't see. i felt panic setting in, although i knew i didn't have far to go, but still, i was scared. and i told the guys that was coming with me to take their time, be careful. we didn't need to fall down. we knew something big had happened. we didn't know what, but we needed to get out and luckily we did. >> larry: how many were with you? >> there were probably

approximately 15 getting ready to go inside to our sections at the time. >> larry: do you feel -- >> i don't have an exact number, but i feel very lucky and fortunate, larry, so much. >> larry: so how long between the first wind hitting and gets out did it take, do you think? ray matter of minutes? >> yeah, it just took a couple minutes. it didn't take very long. like i just stated, we were very fortunate that we were that close to the outside, and were lucky enough to get out to safety. >> larry: we'll be right back withsta with stanley.

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. >> larry: we were withstandly stewart who survived the upper big branch mine explosion. stanley, after you got out, you helped get others out or were you bringing out bodies? what were you doing after you got out? okay. do we have the governor? we apologize. stanley stewart, we couldn't make a connection. we're expecting to talk to the democratic governor of west virginia, governor joe manchin. governor manchin is in charleston, west virginia. what's the latest you can tell us about the four missing men, governor. >> we're working feverishly. i just returned from the mine. i came up to do the member or y yum for the davis family. we lost the oldest brother, two grandsons and nephews, good, strong people, we just attended

that. i'll be heading back down to the mine. before i left, as you know, they bored the holes down. you were probably watching the press conference. they're making decisions right now and trying to make sure that the air is safe enough for the rescue teams to go in. we spoke to the families earlier, larry, and every family to a t does not want to put these rescue workers in any more harm's way than what they will be. we're still in a rescue operation, and after we determine the fate of our four missing miners, then we'll return to a recovery. >> larry: is it true that our friend bob huggins, the west virginia basketball coach called you and offered to do what he could? >> coach called last night, coach called and said joe, i want to do whatever i can. i said coach, please -- he

didn't want to take away. he wanted to contribute. i said why don't you come on down. he brought west virginia shirts down. he's a wonderful person, and he's loved by all of us. he's our friend. he did a great job. everybody has been so good. the president has called. i spoke to the president. he wanted to speak to some of the families. he made those calls today. vice president biden has spoken. though both have been so appreciative and respectful, offering to come. they said they didn't want to take away from the tremendous effort. we appreciate that so much. maybe at a later time they'll come and be able to visit with these great people. >> larry: does this come in the category, governor, of a national tragedy where you ask for governmental help? >> no, you know, the government -- msha is doing their thing. we are okay. we understand. it's a terrible situation here,

but we're going to take care of our people and they're just wonderful, wonderful human beings. they're the salt of the earth, hard-working people. we're all together. we're a large family in west virginia. if you see the families together, larry, at first, you would see the different family sections. then after the first day, you can't tell because they all become one large family, helping each other, whoever is having the most difficult time. they know what we're facing. we know we have 14 unidentified miners in the mine. we have four that are still in the mine that haven't been identified for 18 and we have four that were missing. we have a total of 22 brave miners there that we're doing everything in our power as quickly as possible. we're doing everything to make sure that we can get in and hopefully have a miracle. it's a shred of hope we still have, but we do have hope. i think everyone knows that if they could have made it to the

rescue chamber, we have a sliver of a chance. if not, we know odds are against us. >> larry: governor, we salute you. we'll stay in constant touch. we extend our best to all those great people in west virginia. >> larry, we appreciate america's prierayers. these are wonderful people. we appreciate all of you. >> larry: governor joe manchin. martina navratilova reveals her next opponent. it's her toughest yet, right after the break.

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>> larry: martina navratilova, if i have to tell you who she is, you're on another planet. the winner of 50 grand slam tennis titles. she's aarp's fitness title. we received honorary degrees 15 years ago from george washington university. okay. let's get right to it. you're facing a big health challenge, breast cancer. how did you get the diagnosis? >> well, i had a mammogram in january, and they said i need to come back for a closer look. i went to the australian open, so i waited about a month. in february, i went back. they magnified it. we'll probably do a biopsy.

so i went to denver. this was done in aspen. i went to denver. they said it looks pretty good. wednesday, my doctor, calls me and said are you sitting down and i'm like why. she said it came back positive. i'm like positive? that's not good. normally positive is a good thing but not in this case. i was pretty shocked. i said okay. what does this mean? she said we don't know yet. maybe lumpectomy, radiation, probably, chemotherapy maybe. so i had to sit down and i was needles to say pretty shocked because i was so sure it was going to be nothing. even when they were doing the biopsy, i was joking around with them. >> larry: why were you so sure? >> because i'm so healthy and young. i'm an aarp member, but i feel in my head, i feel about 12. i feel like most of the time, i feel like i'm in my 30s or 40s.

i thought it was too soon for this. i have no breast cancer history in my family. my grandmothers died from cancer, but they were 86, 87 years old. i thought this was a bit too soon for that. >> larry: martina, did you get regular mammograms? >> i have been getting regular mammograms, and then i didn't. 2006, i think was my last one, at the end of 2005. i was still playing on the tour. i thought i'll get it later. after i finished my career, i had knee surgery. i'm like i'll do it later. i moved back to colorado. i'll get it done. it just kept missing. i didn't take it seriously. finally in january, i said, you know what, another year is going to go by. i had not realized it was four years. i thought it was two years. i thought it's time to get my yearly checkup. i went and there it is. i was lucky this calcification

happened at the tail end rather than at the beginning of it. >> larry: are you scared? >> no, no. as far as cancers go, this is the good one. it's like an oxymoron. >> larry: what do you mean? >> after the lumpectomy, the cancer is out of my brevity so i don't have it in my body anymore. i'm doing radiation which will hopefully get rid of the cells and help keep it from coming back. after that, i have maybe 10% chance of it coming back. so the odds are very good for me. but, you know, scared. i was scared when i first got the news, but immediately, i got into the solutions. i thought what do we have to do to get out of this. it's a bit of a shock to the system. it's unexpected because i'm so healthy. i eat well, i exercise, of course. i just didn't think -- i didn't feel anything. and you couldn't feel it in a breast exam, because they were so small.

now the digital mammography is so good, they can find a pin head in there and they did. initially when i got the diagnosis, i thought i'm going to keep it quiet, i'm not going to tell the world because i've been keeping my private life much more private the last ten years or so. when i found out why -- what i have and i was so lucky that we found it early because of the mammogram, i thought i really owe this to the women out there that are putting it off to speak out and say get that mammogram every year, because you never know and it's going to save your life. that's why i went public with it. that's why i'm here to give women encouragement to do this. as the aarp ambassador, i've been advocating good exercise and good eating. what do i have to do to get on your show? get breast cancer. thanks, larry.

>> larry: i needed to hear that, martina, thanks. let me get a break. martina navratilova, one of the best. we'll be right back. don't go away. . ♪ you're right. i'm getting more air. -oh, yeah. -oh, wow! [ female announcer ] for two free samples, go to breatheright.com. there are engines... and then there's the twin-turbocharging, 365-horsepower-generating, ecoboost engine in the taurus sho from ford. that has the thirst of a v6 with the thrust of a v8. the most innovative full- size sedan in america: the taurus sho, from ford. drive one.

>> larry: we're back with martina navratilova, her purpose urging every woman to get a regular mammogram. she'll be doing a web chat about breast cancer tomorrow at 1:00 eastern. you can register into the web chat at aarp.org/martina chat. one word. by the way in a little while, we'll have dr. oz come on with martina to discuss breast cancer and her particular case. by the way, what was having that lumpectomy like? >> it was a piece of cake, really. the biopsy was actually more uncomfortable because you're laying on the table upside down with the breast sticking out. they numb it. that was uncomfortable being on the table, but the lumpectomy is much easier, because you're a

normal patient, they put you to sleep in this twilight zone and you wake up and it's over. you don't know it actually happened already. there was no pain whatsoever afterwards. when the breast came to life. i also had a lymph node taken out to make sure the cancer hadn't spread. it's still in the one boob. >> larry: before dr. oz joins us, what do you make of the whole tiger woods story, one great athlete about another? >> i think it's great that he's playing again. i think he will find the golf course his oasis, because that's what he does best. i found for myself, whenever things were not going quite right for me, i felt that the tennis court was my safe haven. i think he will do just fine. he'll be happy to be doing what he does best. >> larry: i remember when you came out. now we have the controversy over don't ask don't tell.

ricky martin has just come out. as you encourage women to get their mammograms, do you encourage gay people to come out of the closet? >> that's a personal choice, you know. it's difficult. i mean, it's easier i think for private people to do that than for famous people to do that, because you're coming out to the whole world. it's a personal choice. when people are ready, they do come out. when they do come out, i've not heard of one case where somebody wants to go back into the closet, they made a mistake. i would encourage people to come out because they will feel so much better about being free and don't have to pretend anymore. it has to be an individual choice. >> larry: was it hard for you to come out? >> well, no. i couldn't come out until i became a citizen because it was actually a disqualifier at the time. >> larry: really? >> i may not have gotten my u.s. citizenship if i had spoken out publicly before so i waited

until i got the passport, but i don't think it's the case anymore, but it was that case 30 years ago, yeah. >> larry: don't forget, martina is doing a web chat, tomorrow 1:00 eastern, aarp.org/martinachat of th aarp.org/martinachat, one word. dr. oz next. if perfection is what you pursue, this just might change your course. meet the new class of world class. the twenty-ten lacrosse, from buick. may the best car win. high arches. (announcer) people everywhere are discovering what's going on with their feet. dr. scholl's custom fit orthotic center. backed by foot care scientists, its foot mapping technology

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>> larry: martina navratilova remains with us, the tennis legend, the winner of 50 grand slams and we're joined by dr. oz. dr. oz, what are your thoughts on martina's situation? >> martina has a tumor that is very common. it's about one in four of all the breast cancers in the country. it's not a cancer we knew much about until we started doing dodge tal mammography. it's an early tumor. it's one of those cases where the mammography was life changing. by getting the mammography, she

was able to get a diagnosis. the real dilemma is what age do you start. martina is 53. once you get past 50, momography becomes a much better test. it's still the best test we have younger than 50, but for a lot of people in the crucial decade between 40 and 50, the dilemma is do i tolerate a mediocre test, or do i wait it out until at age 50, the test becomes much more effective because my breasts become more thin? >> larry: what do we mean by ductile carcinoma? >> imagine you have a series of tunnels going from the milk to the breast. inside of those tunnels you have delicate cells that in some women begin to turn carcinogenic. they begin to fight and argue with the cells around them. at the very earliest stages, sometimes those cells will

develop a bit of calcium in them. clues to us that something is going on. the real dilemma is we don't know if all these are going to become aggressive cancers. it puts the patient and the doctor in an awkward position. we've got to guess if this is a life threatening cancer. the standard is to do exactly what martina is having done which is to take a scooper and scoop out part of the breast and irraid yat around that area to make sure you got it all. my vision for the future and i think a lot of my colleagues believe this to be the case is we will be able to take little scopes, go in through the nipple, see the early tumors, kill them by freezing them or lasering them. i think over the next few years we'll see more of these innovative approaches to make the art of breast surgery a bit more new tech. >> sounds good to me in case it comes back. >> larry: martina, is there anything you would want to ask dr. oz. >> i think i know the numbers

pretty well. again, with time, hopefully, these cures will be even less invasive than they are now. again, for me the lump.ectomy was pretty easy, but i guess now, my unknown is the radiation. i'm having a six week course of radiation. what do i expect in that? >> that's low impact. they're going to aim it at the tissue around the tumor that was taken out. the reason we do the radiation is because we recognize that in order to get all the tissue with a good margin around this very early tumor, you would disfigure the breast. in order to preserve the contour of the breast and maintain a cosmetically acceptable appearance, we make a smaller excision of tissue and raid yat around it to make sure we have no cells that escaped into the tissue around the area we attacked. >> actually i'm told i'll be having the whole breast irradiated. >> in the old days, the

radiation would go into the heart area. it would devastate the heart tissue. we can avoid that now. it allows you to be back at full speed quickly. >> larry: you'll be happy to know we tweeted on king's things that you were going to be on the show talking about this diagnosis. we've got tons of tweets back wishing you the best. we have a facebook question for you. >> okay. >> larry: you said your diagnosis was your 9/11. do you think about life in a different way now? >> well, you just sort of take pause and sort of reboot. are you doing the things that you want to be doing? if i had a year to live, i probably would change things. i don't. i hopefully have a lot longer. it gives you pause to make sure you want to be doing. i am. i'm working for the tennis channel. i love working for aarp and empowering people there. i still have plenty of time for my friends and family and travel

and see the world. i have a great life and hopefully i'll be here for a long time to annoy you all. >> larry: any thoughts on who's going to win in france? >> that's still two months away. if nidal is healthy. he's my pick on the men's side. on the women's side, i hope to see serena williams. i'm going to enjoy that match. >> larry: are these players today as good as you, better than you? could you have taken them on? do they improve as other athletes do? >> of course they improve because they're bigger, stronger, they're hitting the ball harder. the equipment makes it easier to do that. people ask me do you think you cou could beat serena williams. >> of course not. i think we would have great matches and i would who will my own okay. it would have been fun. i would have loved to have

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>> larry: we're back with dr. mehmet oz, "the new york times" best selling author. i'll ask you about secret signs in a minute, but we have a twitter question that relates to the last guest. the question is can a sonogram tell for sure that you don't have breast cancer? >> no test with actually guarantee you don't have cancer. larry, frankly, most of us watching the show right now have cancer cells in our body. the question is how does our immune system track those cancer cells, identify them and knock them off. that's one of the beauties of the immune system, that we're continually looking for cells that don't behave themselves. it's a useful tool, but

mammography remains the gold standard. it's not the perfect test. i'm looking forward to better tests coming along to help us in the management of breast disease. >> larry: ovarian cancer, often called the silent killer, you say there are symptoms women should know, like? >> when i went through my training, if you had ovarian cancer, we were taught you were going to die. by the time we identified it, it was too late. there are three pairs of symptoms that are essential. the first is around food, if you lose your appetite quickly and don't tolerate the foods you used to have, if you have discomfort in your belly, and thirdly, if you're noticing that you're bloated in your waist, that's because you may have early signs of ovarian cancer. the survival rating are 85% or better if women can track those three basic pairs of symptoms and bring it to the attention of their doctor. a sonogram can be life saving.

>> larry: your show tomorrow is on secret signs, people's bodies may be giving them about their health. give us a couple secret signs. >> the preamable, your body is like an alarm clock. too many of us are hitting the snooz button and not paying attention to it. if you lose your sense of smell, that's one of the earlier signs that you may have parkinson's disease. it will predate the diagnosis by about seven years. that's one of the tips you can look for. women who have calves that are large, a lot of times women get upset about that, the circumference of your calf, if it's more than 13 inches, you have a lower chance of having a stroke. we believe that's the case because big calves will suck up some of the fat that was in your blood, less of that fat is in your blood vessels, less of the

disease affecting your brain vessels occurs. and less strokes. simple tips like that are what we are going to highlight. the more you recognize the clues your body is yelling out to you, the more you can pay attention to them. >> larry: i know summer is coming and there's a big thing now that we need more vitamin d. everyone should take more vitamin d. take it in pill form. get -- should we get more sun? >> i think we ought to get more sun, but i think there's a smart way of doing it. if you live north of atlanta, you can draw a line from atlanta to los angeles, if you live north of that, in the winter months, you're not getting those rich sun rays that give us vitamin d, so i can almost guarantee, unless you get sun exposure, you don't have enough vitamin d. if you want your facial skin to

look like your buttocks skin, you put sun block on your face, on the back of your hands but leave your torso, your legs exposed to the sun for about 15 minutes. if you're light skinned, in 15 minutes, you'll generate 10,000 units of vitamin d. if you're darker skinned, you need more like an hour. we know it helps reduce cancer rates and immune system plus the benefits it gives us for your heart and osteoporosis and the like. >> larry: what if i take 10,000 milligrams of vitamin d. >> it's called international units. you could take 10,000, most people don't need to do that. if you take 1,000 or 2,000 ub unitses a day, that's fine. a lot of folks say they get it in their milk. milk has vitamin d, but it's

made from vegetable sources. it's not what the human body normally uses. it's not all that efficient. there's not a lot of great sources of vitamin d in our diet. you have to get it from cod liver oil, it makes sense because it had vitamin d, or you can get it from the sun. in the winter time, your cholesterol levels go up, the reason for that, the way the sun changes the body, it converts cholesterol to vitamin d, but it makes perfect sense that our cholesterol levels fluctuate with the weather, because it's trying to regulate our vitamin d levels. >> larry: the amazing dr. oz. more after these words. don't go away. high blood pressure or diabetes, you may also have very high triglycerides -- too much fat in the blood. it's a serious medical condition. lovaza, along with diet, effectively lowers

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from a plok la mags claiming april is american history month. and the tea party is growing and steaming. sarah palin's words at a campaign rally for republican congresswoman michele bachmann. we'll have politics ahead. tiger woods back on the golf cores and a compelling new nike ad featuring his late father's voice. it's the first commercial tiger has shot since the scandal broke out. those stories and more at the top of the hour. >> larry: thanks, anderson. we'll preview tiger's play tomorrow in the masters. plays tomorrow afternoon, a little after 1:00 eastern time. a tweet question for you. when looking at nutrition facts, which is more important, sodium or sugar levels? >> i worry more about sugar levels. not everybody has a problem with sodium. we take in about 3500 milligrams

of sodium a day in this country. if we can take 50% off of that and take it down to 2300 milligrams, it's a big save 100 lives. it's big deal. not everybody has blood pressure problem, primarily where sodium plays a big role. sugar is an issue for all americans. the reason you have an obesity epidemic is not because of fat, sugar. we convert it to fat and store it on in waist lines and in our food supply, probably driving the obesity epidemic. we were talking to martina about obesity and breast cancer. s she's muscular and doesn't have much weight. which is good news for her. we believe 20% of all breast cancer is caused by obesity and one of the reasons it's important to address that. lots of ways to do it. getting physical activity is one way but you have to address the sugar in your diet to be impactful. >> larry: don't forget, dr. oz

on his show tomorrow gives you the secret signs. allison, hello. >> caller: hi, dr. oz and larry. i want to ask dr. oz about his take on lime disease. i have been misdiagnosed for six years and just got diagnosed last october and just wondering why do you feel like the medical community is not acknowledging this epidemic? it's huge. >> larry: is it, doctor? >> it is a huge question. i'm glad you're asking it now, the beginning of the spring season, we're starting to see more ticks come out as urban areas crowd rural, we're starting to see the lime disease impacting people. chronic lime disease happens when you don't treat the initial presentation of the problem, get the classic bullseye rash initially and folks miss it. when you don't treat it, it can cause headaches and arthritis. >> larry: you sleep a lot,

right? >> you sleep a ton. the real question, is it the bacteria that causes lime disease or some other virus in these ticks. we tried to study that a lot on my show. the jury is still out. it's a complex topic the medical community fights a lot over. not everybody you treat aggressively with long term antibiotics gets better and not sure they had chronic lime. you had lime disease but another disease that's causing your issue. that balancing act many doctors a have with patients with chronic li lime. >> larry: is there any danger of consuming artificial sweetners. >> i'm not a big fan of artificial sweeteners. i have no information that they cause cancer in the dose humans take but that imbibed by americans are sold by big

companies who have marketing budgets. if they truly helped you diet, don't you think they'd show you that data. but you don't lose weight. if you sat and had a cup of iced tea and a tablespoon of sugar, you know how many calories you'd get, give me an idea? >> larry: 100? >> 12 calories? i'd rather you put real sugar in a the tea. you're going to get your 12 calories anyway. don't get fooled. when you have aren't fishal sweetener, your brain is smart enough to realize you're giving itself something sweet but no calories in it. it's reminding you, you cheated me, give me back the calories. people who have artificial sweetener in their diet tend to get obesity. >> larry: we will try to be equal to that task. we'll be right back. introducing quattron quad pixel technology.

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scott mcintyre, "american idol"'s first visually impaired idol list and talks about why it won't be the same. dr. oz, caller from dearborn, michigan. are you there? >> caller: hello.

>> larry: what's the question? >> caller: i was diagnosed with leukemia in may of 2009 and the doctor put me a diet of all natural food and high omega-3s. i want to ask you and dr. oz what do you think howard stern's [ bleep ] -- >> larry: he mentioned something important, a little wacko but that's okay. i read something in the american journal that omega-3 fish oil is the only proven successful additive kind of thing you can buy in a health food store. all the rest made claims. the only proven benefit is omega-3. is that true? >> i would argue the best proven is omega-3 but vitamin d is clearly associated with reduction of some cancers. omega-3 is my favorite. it seems to maintain a higher cognitive function. you think more clearly if you take omega-3s as you grow older.

children who don't take omega-3s are not as sharp and by law we have to supplement infant formula if you're unable to breast-feed because it has omega-3s in it. if you have leukemia or any other cancer, do not give up the reality when you walk into a grocery store you're walking into a pharmacy. they are whole foods and we need to take them. omega-3 is unfortunately not always present. cain offer one other thing. we tweeted out and put on our facebook site i would be on tonight and one important thing we god asked about breast cancer, if you don't have a family history, not that much chance you will get it. i want to emphasize, only 20% of women that have breast cancer have a family history. do not think you're safe just because you don't have a loved one who has the disease also. >> larry: what's the percentage of people who get breast cancer

will die? >> it's going down. one of the problems with answering that question, we have done a great job of keeping people with breast cancer alive. it is one of those sneaky illnesses that keep coming back over and over again. you can't talk about a five year survival rate but a 20 year survival rate because the cells hideout and come back later. martina, the kind she has, her curate is over 90%, a wonderful tribute to the researchers in that area. >> larry: men can get it, too, right? >> they can. it's much less common because guys have less breast tissue. self exams is the way to find because they don't have fibrous tissue like women do, exam your breast by working your nipple. for women, many women diagnose breast cancer in themselves through breast exams through m mammography when you're young. the point of tomorrow's