dr. samadi, it is pretty shocking. how could it happen. >> lung cancer is a serious disease, because lung cancer by itself kills more americans than breast cancer, prostate cancer and colon cancer combined and this is a very serious segment, over 230,000 are being diagnosed and 150,000 die as a result of this. the recent study, actually, comes from europe is interesting. because, now, we are seeing an increase in the female nonsmokers. and, so, that is a big surprise. and, the question is, while we know smoking is number one cause of lung cancer, are there any other reasons why the incidence is happening and what they are looking into is perhaps second-hand smoking could be a main reason for that. or other things such as radon, odorless, colorless gas in your house, coming through the cracks of the walls or the drains and there are test kits you can have in your house, and, asbestos used to be a problem and we know

more about it and, if you want to get it inspected and, have your house looked into it, these are issues that can slow down lung cancer, genetics plays a big role and ultimately, the diesel fuels and fuels that are coming from cars, could be the reason for this. but, the recommendation to a lot of people out there is, if you are smoking, stop smoking, today. that is really the big message, and, it's the number of cigarettes and years you are on and the sooner you quit, the better you can control the disease. >> eric: and, dana reeve, christopher reeve's wife, never smoked. >> it is still smoking, one out of five americans are still smoking and increase your risk, 1,000 to 2,000 times as a smoker and that is the one thing, and the thing with lung cancer is, once you have it.

>> clayton: -- have it, survival is 15%, and thanks to doctors like dr. samadi, with prostate cancer, you can actually survive it and lung cancer spreads quickly and they looked at non smokers, 11% are presenting with lung cancer and you know what? they are even farther along with lung cancer when they are dying notified and more dna and genetic changes and it is harder to treat and david is right. second-hand smoke, even third-hand smoke, toxins that land on your furniture, 250 poisons in cigarette smoke, including cyanide and if you live in a house where a smoker is... >> eric: how do you defect it and stop it and -- >> jamie: i want to jump on that, great question. >> the big thing about this, chest x-ray used to be the standard of care and you would go to your doctor and they'd get a chest x-ray and now we are finding out, chest x-ray can miss a lot of the nodules. the new standard of care, i believe, based on the landmark

study that came out and presented it last year from, the journal of medicine shows cat scan is the way to go and finds a lot of small nodules that later on will become a serious problem and it -- >> eric: cat scans... >> it will reduce the rate of death 20% and it is important and the criticism is the cost and the amount of radiation but if you are high risk, go for it. >> i agree. one study showed 60% chance of cure if you get the lung cancer before it escapes the lung and the only way to do that is with a cat scan. >> eric: talk to your doctor about a potential cat scan. >> jamie: you have me bouncing out off of my seat, i just had a cat scan, because i live near an area -- where i should be tested. and, you should only get it where you need it, because there is a lot of radiation. >> are you okay. >> jamie: i'm perfect. you have to check those things out, muscle pain, news yeah,

anxiety and liver problems, if you are suffering from these. it might not be a problem, it might be the medication you are taking. a lot of popular prescription drugs are bringing side effect like this. what do you do, dr. siegel with every medicine has a little poison. but you have to take your medicines. >> 1 out of 3 people are taking at least one prescription drug. painkillers may affect your liver and the statin i give you for cholesterol may affect your muscles. i'll tell you a story, a retired cop came to me, he couldn't sleep and he was anxious and his blood pressure was high and cholesterol was too high and i lined up all of these medicines i was going to give him, high blood pressure medicine and, cholesterol and anti-anxiety medicine and he said, doc, i don't want any of this stuff, i'll start jogging and i'll relax and i'm going to eat better, all the stuff david and

i are talking about on the show and i bet it wouldn't work and he came back three months later, and he hadn't needed any of the medicines i would have given to him and, if he took them, he would have been stuck because i would have kept him on that and actually, the lifestyle change made the difference. >> i'm glad there is that communication going on, part of our fault as doctors, is a knee-jerk reaction going on, you have high blood pressure, equal to beta blockers and asthma, you need steroids and cold, flu efl nasal drip... zithromax and we have to be careful and the message i have for a lot of people, remember the pneumonic fast. the doctors are taking out the prescription pads too fast and writing and having the conversation like you had with your patient is critical. a, it is really, the attitude of the patient and we know a lot of people with positive attitudes

and don't start every sentence with what if, they usually do well, healthy mind, healthy body. try to control the stress that you have. we know that many sunday shows, about stress, how it affects your immune system and hormones and, finally, t, look at -- make the list of all of your therapies, that list is important, because, you go from doctor-to-doctor and they look at the list, and, talk about alternatives, and, exercise and fast -- stay away from fast-food. those are healthy points, for the patient. >> jamie: perfect, we love any natural way to get better. thank you, doctor. >> eric: and exercise. speaking of healthy natural ways, a lot of students around the country are beginning the first year of college. you know what that could mean? the dreaded freshman 15? you gain 15 pounds, do you see what they are serving the kids, mexican food stations and all the ice cream you can eat and desserts up the wazoo? coming up, the doctors will have advice for your young people and how to try and avoid to put on those freshman pounds.

>> jamie: i like that and a new effort is underway to spread awareness about sudden cardiac arrest in teens, especially those that are young athletes like the story we'll bring you. today, counting his blessings, the doctors will explain, how you can prevent that from happening, to your child. >> i really had no idea that i didn't -- i didn't know what was happening inside of me and i never learned it until class and -- never learned it in class, never learned it in school, i didn't know what was happening. [ male announcer ] this is rudy.

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to a teen and his mother who said the screening did save his life. >> i didn't know what it was, i thought it was just, you know, adrenaline or too much sugar or something. but, after one time, i just said, this is not normal and i need to tell someone about this. >> he could have been a young man that you hear about, who played basketball, dropped dead, with no existing health conditions, or problems they knew of. >> eric: dr. siegel you hear of these cases as the mother said on the basketball court or on the field and suddenly a young man or woman has a tragic ending. >> drew harrington had, an unusual heart rate and you heard him saying he was thinking it was adrenaline or cola or something, you could have shortness of breath and a rapid heart rate and faint, fatigued and you think it is from engaging in sports an pennsylvania is doing something about this and a representative

got a law passed there where coaches have to look on-line and take a course on this, speak to parents, and, get involved with the conversation, and, if kids are not feeling well, they have to get screened. we also need more defibrillators on the court. because, the studies that show if you use a defibrillator within the first minute you can save person's life. here's the biggest problem, eric. the problems, that of those 7,000, that have sudden cardiac arrest every year, the vast majority don't know they have a problem. but, they may have some of these symptoms, and we'll lose some but we have to zero in on the symptoms and get these kids screened, i want the law in pennsylvania around the country. >> eric: what would you tell parents watching, who have a young man, a young child, woman, you know, about to take the football field, this year or soccer, should every kid get screened. >> i personally believe that every kid should see their pediatrician before they get on the field. >> eric: what is that screening. >> that is the controversy, i'd do an ekg, it is cheap and easy and you can pick up a lot of things on that and an examination and a blood pressure and a full history.

most of these problems can be picked up by history, taken. >> i mean, marc did an amazing job with this and it is great we are bringing this as an awareness for a lot of parents, one day are child goes to school and will never come back and this is a real tragedy. and the truth is, exactly, the symptoms are masked, because, what are we talking about? shortness of breath, rapid heart rate, dizzy an fatigd fatigued guess what, after a football game you may have all the symptoms and how do you know you have the problem and i think given the ekg test, across the board if you are going to be a real athlete and play the sports is the way to go. you talk about a hundred dollars and a lot of this has to do with the sickness of the heart -- thickness of the heart, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. there is some issue with the electricity and the circuit, the pump that can be detected on the ekg and that is really important and having the defibrillator by the field is the way to go but i

think it is an important issue. >> jamie: how important is hydration for kids playing sports? you are talking about how to defect a plan and what do you hand your child before they play a sport that could be helpful. >> kids, especially in the heat and don't know the humidity, not just water but electrolytes, those solutions like gatorade and things like that are important and david's point, structural heart disease, that is where it is coming from and a lot of times you have a thickened heart and abnormal heart and it can be picked up by physicians who are looking for it and once they take you off though field, that you will not let you back on, until you show you are okay. like drew harrington. >> eric: parents, ekg, talk to your doctor. >> jamie: and that is painless, you can talk a kid into an ekg, vaccinations are tough! and a push is underway to increase the awareness of ovarian cancer and we want to tell you what you need know to protect those you love, coming

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>> jamie: i'm happy about this, a major push this month to bring attention to ovarian cancer. as millions of americans are affected by the deadly disease.

september is national ovarian cancer awareness month, and, dr. samadi wanted to tell us what we need to know. it is hard to detect, isn't it? >> yes. absolutely right. if you look at the statistics for ovarian cancer, it is really mind-boggling because you are talking about 22,000 new diagnosis and 15,000 deaths. and this is probably one of the worst cancers we are going to see. and, you think of breast cancer and you have a mammogram for screening and prostate cancer, you have psa and pap smear for cervical cancer, what do we have for ovarian cancer, not much. you can talk about the blood test, ca-125 which is specific for ovarian cancer, or, an ultrasound. but, how do you know that you have to get an ultrasound? that is the difficult part. because, the symptoms, as we mentioned, are very vague. bloating, abdominal pain, and, back pain, and urinary issues, and so many people have these kinds of symptoms so i think there should be a discussion with your gynecologist, when it comes to this.

the risk factor groups are the ones that they may have genetic family history of ovarian cancer and if you have one of these genes, brca-1 and brca-2, they are at high risk and if you have never been pregnant in the past, it is a risk, and, obesity is a risk and, the exciting thing about ovarian cancer, there is a group in yale, coming up with a genetic testing or screening and i'm excited about this, because they are looking at a few proteins that change in our dna when it comes to ovarian cancer, such as prolactin, or insulin growth factors, or lecthin and that is 20 to $30 for the test and that is in the pipe loan and bei -- pipeline and we are able to find them... >> jamie: survivable. >> once we can find it early on,

we will be able to but now we are in big trouble with ovarian cancer. >> jamie: what does it looks like, you may have an ovarian cyst and, a -- doc, i'm trying to get my residency completed. >> you'll be graduating soon! >> dr. colby, actually, it looks like a cyst and it may be a typical, the key to cancer, as david says, it is a typical, not just a round cyst but it has irregularity that makes you want to zero in with a cat scan and a biopsy to figure it out but by the time you get to the ultrasound, as david mentioned, ca-125 is not specific time and by the time you get the ultrasound it may be too late and you may not know who to screen since 90% of people with ovarian cancer don't have the genetic risks and just get it serendipitously and we are coming up with what is called

protonom ich protonomics and the group at yale and other places are looking at abnormal proteins you see when you have ovarian cancer and can you get them earlier in the game and that is called protonmonics, insulin growth factor and prolactin seem to be elevated with, ovarian cancer and we don't have a test to use in the doctor's office yet but in five or ten years, i hope we will. >> jamie: that is appreciated, because, that is a tough one. >> eric: college fresh men have more to do than settle into the dorm rooms, one of the new decisions, how do they not stuff their faces all the time? we'll have tips how to help your student avoid the freshmen 15. >> jamie: or 50! ♪ [ male announcer ] this is rudy. his morning starts with arthritis pain. and two pills. afternoon's overhaul starts with more pain. more pills.

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in maine. i know you will be checking your photographs to see if he has gained 15 pound it's your son. i am not going to make much headway on pizza, fried foods, portion control, on eating breakfast, on going to the salad bar, so i will advise one thing, switch to low-calorie beer, you will not gain as much weight. >> look, i think college is a new environment. you are walking in. you see all of these people you don't recognize. you ever hit with the strises. college. and between lack of sleep and everything else, it is tremendous pressure on the college student. so i think, you know, when you go to the cafeteria and they have the salad and then the chicken fingers and ice cream, it's hard to eat that salad. try to moderation is really the way to g. i think that's really -- look, when we were in college, you know, at 11:30 at night, domino's pizza brought buffalo wings and beer going

around. so i think as far as the main to the parents, i won't say don't have a good time issue but talk to the freshmen and make sure they eat healthy food and exercise. >> >> eric: it's easy to binge. >> stay in the library, they won't be noshing, so to speak. but i think you should talk to them long before they leave for college about making good choices. right? topics left over for next week. >> we have a lot left. >> jamie: prostate cancer. thank you very much. have a great day. well, fasten your seat belts because the presidential candidates on their big push on to november. the president about to take the stage in florida, a needed win. it's the first of two stops