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Dr. Gil Lederman, Host of Radiosurgery New York on WOR midnights and weekends Interview · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Well, as soon as we heard that Pope Leo had
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  Speaker 1: to undergo surgery because of possible lung cancer, we knew
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  Speaker 1: who to go to, the expert, the best in the country, Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Gil Lederman, host of the Radio Surgery New York at
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  Speaker 1: midnight and also on the weekends. Dr. Lederman, what do
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  Speaker 1: we know about the procedure he went through and what
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  Speaker 1: can we all learn from it?
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Larry. Thank you for having me on the show.
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  Speaker 2: So on the weekend, we heard that he had a
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  Speaker 2: small nodule in the lung. No other news. We weren't
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  Speaker 2: told if he had a biopsy, if he had a
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  Speaker 2: PET scan, if he had bronchoscopy. Only there was a
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  Speaker 2: small nodule in the lung. So we know that it's
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  Speaker 2: a small nodule in the lung, supposedly. And then yesterday
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  Speaker 2: at Camelli Hospital, which is one of the leading hospitals
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  Speaker 2: in Rome, he had his entire right lower lobe of
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  Speaker 2: his lung removed for adenocarcinoma. So that's what we know
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  Speaker 2: right now. At least that's what the public knows. That's
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  Speaker 2: what I know and you know now. So there's lots
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  Speaker 2: of remaining issues. Number one, did they do a biopsy?
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  Speaker 2: Did they do a PET scan? Is this a cancer
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  Speaker 2: that's traveled? Has it gone to the lymph nodes? Has
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  Speaker 2: it gone to the bone or the lung? Or is
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  Speaker 2: it only just this tiny little cancer that was removed
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  Speaker 2: by removing the entire right lower lobe? So that's what
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  Speaker 2: we know.
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  Speaker 3: Dr. Lederman, this is Curtis. You had mentioned when you
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  Speaker 3: were kind enough to join us Monday when the news
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  Speaker 3: broke that the typical procedure might cause them to have
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  Speaker 3: to deflate the lung for upwards of a week before
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  Speaker 3: there can be recovery. Is that your concept right now
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  Speaker 3: based on more of the information that you have available?
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, because the lung is like a balloon. If
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  Speaker 2: you go up and cut out a quarter of the
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  Speaker 2: balloon or a third of the balloon... The balloon's no
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  Speaker 2: longer the balloon. And so, yes, he's probably in the
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  Speaker 2: ICU at Gamelli Hospital with a chest tube in, and
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  Speaker 2: that chest tube is hooked up to a gizmo to
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  Speaker 2: suck out all that air that got into the right
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  Speaker 2: lung cavity. So presumably his lung was sewed up, and
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  Speaker 2: they're going to suck out all the extra air to
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  Speaker 2: reinflate the right lung. It's kind of a painful procedure
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  Speaker 2: to be a normal person all of a sudden being
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  Speaker 2: stuck in a on a ventilator or on a chest
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  Speaker 2: tube in the ICU and usually takes about a week
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  Speaker 2: to reinflate the lung and then the chest tube is
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  Speaker 2: removed and hopefully the lung stays up and he goes
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  Speaker 2: home and then he goes on the next step, which
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  Speaker 2: is to see if the cancer's traveled. If it was
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  Speaker 2: in my practice, things would have been different. At least
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  Speaker 2: we would have spoken to him about the possibility of
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  Speaker 2: a biopsy without removing the right lower lobe. His entire
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  Speaker 2: right lower lobe was removed. which means he'll have less
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  Speaker 2: exercise capacity. I think he's a very active pope. He's
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  Speaker 2: very physically active, and he'll probably notice a diminishment in
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  Speaker 2: his ability to breathe and exercise normally. There were options
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  Speaker 2: for him. In my view, on the little knowledge I know,
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  Speaker 2: if there was a small tumor, and it's only a
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  Speaker 2: small tumor, he could have had noninvasive treatment, and noninvasive
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  Speaker 2: treatments such as radiosurgery. We treat thousands. I've, in fact,
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  Speaker 2: treated 40,000 patients with non-invasive treatment, specifically for this syndication.
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  Speaker 2: Adenocarcinoma of the lung, small nodule, in a person who
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  Speaker 2: just does not want to go through surgery, does not
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  Speaker 2: want to be in the hospital, does not want a
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  Speaker 2: chest tube, doesn't want to lose a third of his
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  Speaker 2: right lung.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Pope Leo's older brother, we're now learning, also has cancer.
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  Speaker 1: He's been getting treatment for a type of blood cancer,
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  Speaker 1: multiple myeloma. Is that just a coincidence or is it
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  Speaker 1: common that if one member of a family has cancer,
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  Speaker 1: other members might be susceptible or may also have cancer?
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  Speaker 2: I can tell you that in my practice, I always
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  Speaker 2: ask people if they smoke and then I always ask
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  Speaker 2: them if they had secondhand smoke. And in my experience,
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  Speaker 2: which is shocking, but I'm actually going and producing a
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  Speaker 2: study now, many people will tell me, no, they don't smoke.
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  Speaker 2: And actually, they were ex-smokers. Many people tell me they
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  Speaker 2: had no secondhand smoke. Then I'll ask them, but did
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  Speaker 2: your parents smoke at home? And at that point, most
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  Speaker 2: people right now are telling me their parents smoked at
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  Speaker 2: home when they were children, which is a very vulnerable
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  Speaker 2: stage for us. And to have two cancers, it may
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  Speaker 2: well be that his parents smoked at home. And smoking
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  Speaker 2: can increase cancers, so many cancers, smoking, even secondhand smoke,
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  Speaker 2: lung cancers, esophageal cancer. prostate cancers, bladder cancers, kidney cancers,
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  Speaker 2: and heart disease. So much could be done. So it's
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  Speaker 2: certainly possible. And I've actually tried to do a search
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  Speaker 2: about the beloved Pope, but they don't talk anything about
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  Speaker 2: smoking history. So we don't know really about that, and
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  Speaker 2: we don't know about his parents.
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  Speaker 3: Dr. Lederman, I can't recommend your services more highly. You
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  Speaker 3: cared for my dad, my mom, me, and I've just
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  Speaker 3: known you for so many years. So for people out
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  Speaker 3: there who want to learn more and find out all
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  Speaker 3: these alternatives that Dr. Gil Lederman has become an expert
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  Speaker 3: in the field of, you can hear Dr. Gil Lederman
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  Speaker 3: at midnight right here on 710WOR and on the weekends.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks again for this great update, Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Lederman.
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  Speaker 3: The health of the Pope.
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  Speaker 2: God bless you, and God bless the Pope, and I
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  Speaker 2: hope he lives to be 120. And a better phone number,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, is 212-CHOICES. 212-CHOICES comes right to our office,
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  Speaker 2: and it's easy to remember. 212-CHOICES.
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  Speaker 3: We appreciate that.