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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: Ah, the news. The Pope is going to go under
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  Speaker 1: the knife for surgery. He's got a nodule, I guess,
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  Speaker 1: on his lung. But to discuss that, it's Dr. Gil Lederman,
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  Speaker 1: host of Radio Surgery New York on WOR at midnight
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  Speaker 1: and on the weekends, and who wrote me a prescription
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday that got my voice back or I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be here this morning. Thank you. Thank you, Doc.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: All right. So what do you know about the Pope's
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  Speaker 1: condition that has caused him to go under the knife?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so I know what you know, what you denounce,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm trying to get behind the headlines and say
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  Speaker 2: why the heck are they saying this and why the
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  Speaker 2: heck would they put a man, the Pope, or anybody
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  Speaker 2: through surgery for a nodule in the lung? There are
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  Speaker 2: certainly options and many, many people, hundreds of thousands of
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  Speaker 2: people have lung cancers and lung nodules. And in this
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  Speaker 2: day and age, people that come to me generally don't
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  Speaker 2: want to go through surgery. They don't want to have
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  Speaker 2: their lung opened up. They don't want to have part
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  Speaker 2: of their lung removed. And that's what they're talking about
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  Speaker 2: for Pope Leo. So there are options for someone who's
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  Speaker 2: got lung cancer or lung nodule. They didn't talk about that.
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  Speaker 2: And obviously it's beyond the scope of their announcement. But
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  Speaker 2: usually when a person comes here with a lung nodule
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  Speaker 2: planning to have surgery, the first thing a surgeon wants
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  Speaker 2: to do most commonly, not always, but most commonly is
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  Speaker 2: to go in and cut out part of the lung
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  Speaker 2: and put it in a box and check it pathologically.
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  Speaker 2: But there's ways to see if it's cancer, first of all,
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  Speaker 2: with a little needle. So most people I see would
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  Speaker 2: rather have a little needle put in their lung and
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  Speaker 2: know whether it's cancer or not before they have surgery.
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  Speaker 2: We don't know if he had that. So he may
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  Speaker 2: have already had a biopsy. Who knows? There's two ways
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  Speaker 2: to get a biopsy. One is put the needle through
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  Speaker 2: the skin. Another way is bronchoscopy through the airway. There's
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  Speaker 2: another way for people who don't want to even do biopsies,
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  Speaker 2: and there's many, many people who don't want to do
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  Speaker 2: biopsies because if you do a biopsy, Like for the
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  Speaker 2: Pope to do surgery, he's going to end up in
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  Speaker 2: the ICU for a week. His lung will be totally collapsed.
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  Speaker 2: He'll have a chest tube. It will be painful. And
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  Speaker 2: he has to reinflate the lung and get the lung
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  Speaker 2: back and then see what this is, unless there's been
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  Speaker 2: a biopsy, unless he already knows. So there are options
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  Speaker 2: for him, and we certainly hope that he would have
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  Speaker 2: chosen surgery and not known about other things like radiosurgery
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  Speaker 2: where you don't need cutting, you don't need bleeding. You
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  Speaker 2: don't need hospitals. You don't need anesthesia. And you'd think
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  Speaker 2: that someone like him would want to have an equally
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  Speaker 2: effective treatment that's non-invasive, that doesn't remove part of his lung.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's really fascinating. That's great information. I was, while
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  Speaker 3: you were talking, I looked it up too, and they
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  Speaker 3: said that over half of all adults who get a
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  Speaker 3: chest CT scan or x-ray, they find nodules in but
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  Speaker 3: most of them don't need any operations. So from what
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  Speaker 3: you just said a moment ago and that fact there,
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  Speaker 3: do you believe there must be something else going on
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  Speaker 3: for them to go in?
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  Speaker 2: Well, look, you never know. I see so many patients,
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  Speaker 2: and if a surgeon gets their hands on a patient,
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  Speaker 2: and surgeons would probably love to have a high-profile patient
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  Speaker 2: like the Pope on their resume, So it can elevate them.
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  Speaker 2: On the other hand, it can go bad. He can
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  Speaker 2: end up with a complication or shortness of breath or
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  Speaker 2: not be able to breathe well for the rest of
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  Speaker 2: his life or even worse. So sometimes cowboys are surgeons
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  Speaker 2: and surgeons are cowboys and they want to get a
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  Speaker 2: high-profile case. If the Pope Leo or anybody, a listener,
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  Speaker 2: came here, we would get testing. We'd get cancer marker,
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  Speaker 2: blood test. We'd get a PET scan. A PET scan
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  Speaker 2: is a non-invasive way to see if a nodule is
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  Speaker 2: suspicious for cancer. So in this day and age, there's many,
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  Speaker 2: many non-invasive testing that can be done to evaluate whether
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  Speaker 2: it's a cancer or not. And you're right, there's many
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  Speaker 2: nodules in the lung, but most of them are not cancers.
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  Speaker 2: He may have had a CT scan, let's say, six
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  Speaker 2: months ago or a year ago, and it wasn't there.
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  Speaker 2: So if it's a new nodule, that's different than if
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  Speaker 2: it's a nodule that's been there for a long period
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  Speaker 2: of time.
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  Speaker 1: Dr. Lederman, if any of our listeners are interested in
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  Speaker 1: coming to see you for a consultation, How can they
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  Speaker 1: get in touch with you? Because obviously they can hear
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  Speaker 1: your radio surgery program at nights here at WOR 710
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  Speaker 1: at midnight and on the weekends. But if they'd like
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  Speaker 1: to come in, how do they reach out to you?
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  Speaker 2: Well, number one, they can do what you did, which
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  Speaker 2: is send me an email. You can send me an
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  Speaker 2: email at gil, G-I-L, at rsny.org. You did it yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: As you said, I wouldn't have said anything, but you
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  Speaker 2: kind of preempted me. So, Patients and listeners can do
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  Speaker 2: the same thing Curtis Lewa does, gil at rsny.org. If
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  Speaker 2: they don't want to do that, they can call us
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  Speaker 2: at 212-CHOICES, 212-CHOICES.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Dr.
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  Speaker 3: Lederman, host of the Radio Surgery New York at midnight
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  Speaker 3: and on the weekends and the best in the country
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  Speaker 3: at it. Thank you so much, Dr. Lederman. Good to
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  Speaker 3: talk to you.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. We wish the Pope a speedy recovery and
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  Speaker 2: all your listeners much good health.