i am jaime colby and it is time for "sunday house call." >> joining us is dr. mark siegel and and author of "the inner pulse, unlocking the secret code of sickness and health." >> and good afternoon for the chairman of urology and chief of robotic surgery. doctors, good to see you. you know, sunday is our day forgetting healthy. whatever we did up until now doesn't count. from this point forward let's get better. we wanted to start with a disease that can strik

i am jaime colby and it is time for "sunday house call." >> joining us is dr. mark siegel and and author of "the inner pulse, unlocking the secret code of sickness and health." >> and good afternoon for the chairman of urology and chief of robotic surgery. doctors, good to see you. you know, sunday is our day forgetting healthy. whatever we did up until now doesn't count. from this point forward let's get better. we wanted to start with a disease that can strike suddenly and have deadly consequences. there is a possible breakthrough in the fight against pancreatic cancer. doctors have a new way to screen for the disease sooner. doctor, when you hear about pancreatic cancer you automatically think this is one that can't be treated. is that true or has it changed? >> first of all it can be treated. the problem is the treatment, jaime, is not effective. people are worried about pancreatic cancer because it is the number 4 killer in the country. 80% of the time it is found too late to treat it surgically. if you can't treat it surgically you can't cure the patient.

i'm jaime colby. in the memoir set to be released this tuesday, gates dropped several bombshells on washington, including claims that, quote, everyone from president obama on down took shots at president bush and his team. and that some in the administration showed nothing but disrespect to members of our military. molly hanenburg is live in washington right now. i don't like that last one. >> reporter: there's a lot in this book, jamie. good afternoon to you and to eric. secretary gates explained more today on is in insights into behind-the-scenes political infighting in the obama administration, about the surge of troops into afghanistan and about president obama's commitment to success in afghanistan. secretary gates doesn't think the president did enough to convince the servicemen and women that he believed in their mission and that their sacrifice was worth it. >> president bush did that with the troops when i was secretary. i did not see president obama do that, and i said as i write in the book