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Oct. 18, 2024

Leaders as Servants: Embracing Service, Knowledge, and Action to Change the World with Dr. William T. Choctaw, MD, JD

Leaders as Servants: Embracing Service, Knowledge, and Action to Change the World with Dr. William T. Choctaw, MD, JD

Dr. Choctaw delves into the concept of leadership as service, highlighting the importance of serving others and taking proactive steps to create positive change. He challenges listeners to embrace their leadership potential and make a meaningful impact in their communities.

Transcript
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Coming up on this episode of the
Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise podcast.

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Within your body, numerous
things are occurring.

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Number one, cells are rushing to
that cut on your, let's say on your

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hand, and cells are immediately
cleaning up the debris in that area.

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If there's bacteria there, cells
are getting rid of the bacteria,

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cells of platelets are going in
and stopping the bleeding and

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clogging up the area that's been.

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Injured, uh, other, other cells,
macrophages and others are rushing in

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to start healing that area immediately.

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Um, and then a process

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occurs.

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Welcome to the healthy, wealthy,
and wise podcast with Dr.

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William T.

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Choctaw, MD, JD.

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This podcast will provide you with
tools and actionable information

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you can use to help live a more
healthy, wealthy, and wise life.

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It's powered by the over 50
years of medical experience

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of this Yale University.

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University Medical school trained
surgeon, who is also a Western state

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law school trained attorney with
executive experience being a former

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mayor of Walnut, California, as well as
the current chairman of the nonprofit

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Servants Arms, and as president of
Choctaw Medical Group Incorporated.

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This is the leadership masterclass
edition already in progress.

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Good morning, everyone.

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What I want to do is give you a scripture
and then a prayer, and then we will go

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right into our session this morning.

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So, I'm going to be reading
to you, uh, from 2 Corinthians

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chapter 4, verses 15 through 18.

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And it reads thus, For all things
are for your sakes, that the abundant

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grace might through the thanksgiving
of many be downed to the glory of God.

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For which cause will you fall not?

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But though our outward man perished, yet
the inward man is renewed day by day.

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For our light afflictions, which is but
for a moment, worketh for us a far more

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exceeding and eternal weight of glory.

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While we look not at the things
which are seen, but at the things

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which are not seen, for the things
which are seen are temporal.

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But the things which are
not seen are eternal.

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May God have a blessing on hearing,
reading, and doing His holy words.

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Let us go to the Lord in prayer.

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Father God, Almighty, as we approach
your throne this morning, first of

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all, I just want to thank you, my
Father, because you've given us the

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opportunity to be in the land of the
living once more and again, my Father.

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And Father God, Almighty, we know that
you didn't have to do so, but Father,

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we know it's because of your love,
grace, and mercy you saw fit to touch

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us with the thing I love this morning
and wake us up to see another day.

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A day not for us, but a day for you.

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Go out and let us know that you are
the way, the truth, and the light.

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We pray, my father, that each and
every one of us would extract from

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this particular message today, my
father, the things that you have for

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us to extract from so we can use them,
my father, and all to help us in our

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life as we travel down life's highway.

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Pray to bless each and every one
as we listen to this, my father.

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Now I present to you now, Dr.

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Chalk Toff.

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Good morning again.

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Um, happy Saturday.

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Uh, this is our 22nd consecutive,
uh, Leadership Masterclass.

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And yes, and we're absolutely delighted
to have you with us this morning.

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Um, and, um, uh, these Masterclass
Series are designed for leaders.

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Those of you who are here presently
and those of you who are online.

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Um, and I define, I define
a leader as a servant.

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Those who serve others in the
different ways that God has

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allowed you to be able to do that.

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Today we're going to talk about
another very important topic.

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Um, we're going to talk
about breast cancer.

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And there are a couple
of reasons for that.

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One is that this is breast cancer month,
acknowledging those who have experienced

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it and those who participate in the care
of individuals who've had breast cancer.

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Um, and also, um, A large part of
my practice, my surgical practice

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when I was in practice, I had to
do with breast cancer patients.

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And so toward the latter part
of this presentation, I'll share

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some of my personal thoughts
in terms of lessons learned.

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And what I mean by lessons learned is
I mean lessons my patients taught me.

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We tend to think of doctors and
nurses as individuals who teach

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patients and help patients.

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Uh, but I can tell you, uh, as
someone who's, who's done this

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for a while, uh, patients really
help us a lot as physicians.

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And I will share some of those
things with you, uh, toward the

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latter part of our presentation.

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So we're going to talk about, um, an
overview of breast cancer, um, and give

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you some of the latest updates too about
things that are happening in the field.

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As always, I believe life is
about being of service to others.

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I believe knowledge is power.

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I believe leaders can change the world.

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And one of the things that I make
in one of my missions, particularly

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in talking to leaders, is get the
leaders motivated to do something.

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Not just sit, not just wait,
but to actually be proactive.

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Because in my mind,
that's what leadership is.

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Somebody once said, leaders are
individuals who Purposely interfere

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with your life to make things better.

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Um, they, they, sometimes they make
you uncomfortable because she said, you

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know, I just don't want to do X in there.

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I just want to do nothing.

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But, uh, time is of the essence.

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Um, and God has blessed
us with the ability.

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What is masterclass medicine?

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This is a term that I put together, quite
honestly, uh, masterclass, as you know, is

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the top of the top, the best of the best,
uh, medicine, you know, uh, and basically

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masterclass, uh, is based on three things.

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Uh, we want to inform you.

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We want to give you information.

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Uh, we want that information
to be a source of education.

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My operational definition
of education is receiving

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information that changes behavior.

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Receiving information
that changes behavior.

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That's what I call education.

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Uh, and thirdly, uh, we
want to motivate you.

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But once you get that information and
once your behavior has been significantly

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influenced, we then want you to go out
and do something with that information.

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And again, this is educational, it's not
intended to be personal medical advice.

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Your personal medical advice should
come from your individual physician.

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And as we mentioned, this is Breast Cancer
Awareness Month, which I think is good.

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And we'll talk about the importance
of breast cancer awareness.

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In terms of having you to go out and
basically get a screening mammogram.

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In my opinion, that is the
single most important aspect of

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Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

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As we said before, everybody is a
little different healthcare wise.

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And one of the more frustrating things,
certainly for patients and doctors

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also, is that we want to have knowledge
that we can apply to everything all the

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time, but it just doesn't work that way.

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Uh, if you have gallbladder disease,
uh, and your brother gets gallbladder

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disease, they are going to be the
same because you and your brother are

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two different people or your sister
or uncle or aunt or mother or father.

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Um, and that's just the way it's set up.

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And so we have to learn then the detail.

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We have to learn the detail.

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And so some of what we're going to go
over today has to do with the detail.

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I'm always a believer of thriving.

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I think one of the organizations, I
think it's Kaiser, has that as one of

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their mottos, live long and thrive.

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I like that.

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And I think it's a good thing to keep
in mind, that life is a blessing.

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And indeed, if you are listening to my
voice, or you are, as they say, above

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ground, Um, that, that is a blessing
and you should, um, embellish that.

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Well what is breast cancer?

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What is breast cancer?

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So one of the ways to think about it
is that breast cancer is a process

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in the body that where the cells
of the body won't stop growing.

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Let me say that again.

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Breast cancer is sort of a process
in the body where the cells in

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the body won't stop growing.

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If you imagine, uh, Uh, a cellular
structure with very large cells, uh,

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and in the middle of that cellular
structure may be a lot of cells,

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maybe 10 or 20 40 or 50, um, uh,
that's sort of what cancer is.

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Let, let, let me, uh,
use a different example.

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If you were to cut yourself and,
um, say doing housework or whatever,

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and you start to bleed, you would
immediately put your hand over it.

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Um, uh, and that would
sort of stop the bleeding.

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You may put a dressing on it, um,
um, and then decide whether that,

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uh, uh, cut in these stitches or
not in these stitches or whatever.

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Within your body, numerous
things are occurring.

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Number one, cells are rushing to that
cut on your, let's say on your hand

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and cells are immediately cleaning
up the debris, uh, in that area.

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If there's bacteria there, cells
are getting rid of the bacteria.

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Cells of platelets are going in and
stopping the bleeding and clogging

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up the area that's been injured.

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Uh, others, other cells, macrophages
and others are rushing in to start

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healing that area immediately.

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Um, and then a process occurs where
all those cells rusted into that area

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stop, they just stop, because the
healing has taken place, the area has

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been taken care of, the area has been
cleaned up, and you no longer need

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any additional cells in that area.

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What would happen if
the process didn't stop?

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What would happen if you cut
yourself, uh, and cells rushed into

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the area, but they just kept coming?

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They just kept coming.

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That was no cut off valve.

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Uh, theoretically, you can consider
that a type of cancer without the

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cut, because you don't need the cut.

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So cancer is the unrestricted growth
of cells in a certain area of the body.

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Unrestricted growth.

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Unrestricted growth.

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of cells in a certain area of the body.

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Okay?

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So, it's, it's, it's, it's a little more,
it's even more complicated than that,

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but we'll, we'll sort of get into it.

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Uh, but, but just think about it.

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The body is so complex, it tells
every single cell what to do.

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But all you need is one glitch
where that doesn't work and you

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can end up getting what, what we
may euphemistically call cancer.

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It's when cell growth does not stop.

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Uh, another example, if I use the
same, uh, laceration, a cut on your

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hand, um, and let's say the cells
stop, but not after a certain period

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of time, and you have a scar that
ends up being a very, very thick scar.

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We call that a hypertrophic scar.

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That's not a cancer, but it's an
example of what happens if more

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cells end up in the coming into
that area than should, okay?

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So my point is that the body
has a cut off time where it

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tells everything to shut down.

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It stops the cells from rushing
into an area because the

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problem has been taken care of.

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If the body does not shut those
cells down, they keep coming.

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And as they keep coming, the area
begins to grow, we call it growth,

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uh, and that then becomes cancer.

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So, how, how is cancer diagnosed?

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And we're talking about breast
cancer now, let me be specific.

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How is breast cancer diagnosed?

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The two early ways of potentially
diagnosing breast cancer is

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one, breast self examination.

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What does that mean?

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It means when you examine your breast
yourself, uh, either in the shower

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or just standing in front of the
mirror, uh, where as a patient, you

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just run your hand over your breast.

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Uh, both breasts, um, uh, and become
familiar with the, uh, uh, topography of

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your breasts so that if you, if you, when
you do that, if you feel something that

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was not there the last time, then you
know that that may be something abnormal.

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So that's called breast
self examination, BSE, okay?

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Um, the other way breast cancer is
diagnosed is usually by mammogram

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and why is mammogram so important?

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Mavigram is important
because it can pick up lumps.

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that are too small for us to feel.

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Okay?

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Mammogram is important.

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It's an x ray type
procedure of the breast.

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It's a picture of the breast.

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It is too, it can pick up lumps
that are very, very small, uh,

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or too small for you to feel.

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So, as you run your hand over
your breast, uh, in a breast self

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examination, you may not be able
to pick up a one sonometer mass.

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or lumped or a 0.

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5 centimeter mass or lump.

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The mammogram can pick
up that mass or lump.

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So breast cancer is the
unrestrained growth of cells

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in the body in a certain area.

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Um, it can be diagnosed by initially
by you feeling it in your breast.

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Uh, and by examining your breast
regularly, you feel a lump

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that you did not feel before.

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You notice I use the term lump.

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I don't say tumor.

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I don't really say mass, um, we
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a lot of times because it tends to
scare people, you know, if you say

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tumor, oh my God, I've got a tumor.

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And if you say tumor, people think cancer.

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All tumors are not cancers, but if
you say tumor, people think cancer.

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So usually I use the term lump, and
that's, that's like the most benign

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term that I can think of, because
anything can be a lump, right?

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Okay, so just, just keep that in mind.

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So one of the ways to diagnose a lump.

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Uh, or a cancer is to diagnose the
lump first, or the presence or the

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existence of a lump, and you can do
that by one, breast self examination,

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or you can do it by getting a mammogram.

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Most lumps in the breast that may be
cancerous are too small for you to feel.

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Hi, welcome.

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Uh, most lumps in the breast that may be
cancerous are too small for you to feel.

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And that's a good thing, that's a good
thing, because if they're too small

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to feel, then that means that that,
and it's cancer, that means it's very,

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very early, in terms of diagnosis.

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How do you reduce the
risk of breast cancer?

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Um, some have suggested
decreasing smoking.

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controlling your weight, limiting
alcohol, being physically active,

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avoiding radiation exposure.

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I'm sure that those probably
are beneficial things to do.

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But probably one of the main
things that have been shown to

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directly be related to decrease
in breast cancer is breastfeeding.

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If you have children, Or you become
pregnant, um, and have a child,

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breastfeeding has been found, uh, to
decrease your risk of breast cancer.

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It's not a guarantee that you won't get
breast cancer, but it is felt by studies

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that have been done that it does decrease
the risk of you getting breast cancer.

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