October 6, 2024 • 29 mins
How do you know if it's the cold, flu or ever worse, something else? How can you prevent it? Plus some good news when it comes manufacturing in Kentucky? Finally, why you should be paying attention to your prostate. It could save your life! All in this week's Kentucky Focus with Scott Fitzgerald!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm Scott Fitzgerald and coming up this week on Kentucky Focus.
Just because September is over, Prosting Cancer Awareness Month has
come to an end doesn't mean our efforts to recognize
its severity need to. We'll show you just how easy
it is possibly save your own life. Was it's the
age old question, isn't a cold or something more? We'll
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talk to one of the nation's leading doctors about how
you can save yourself A lot of grief this winner.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I'm Scott Fitzgerald. We've got that in Mark. Coming up
in this week's Kentucky Focus.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Welcome to Kentucky Focus on the Kentucky News Network, the
show that looks at issues affecting the Commonwealth and it's citizens.
We cover state politics, in history, human interest stories, sports,
and even entertainment. It's Kentucky Focus on kNN.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Every flu season, thousands of children younger than five are
hospitalized from flu complications. Each year, children die from flu.
You have the power to protect your loved ones this
blue season. CDC recommends everyone six months in older get
an annual flu vaccine. Some children will need two doses
to be fully protected, so don't wait, get yourself and
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your family vaccinated today. Learn more at CDC dot gov
slash fight flue.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
Have you noticed bad behavior has become normalized at interscholastic
athletic events. Some are fancyne angry, They lack civility toward
one another. Some even get aggressive and unruly. Time out.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
What is going on?
Speaker 6 (01:35):
This has to stop.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Let's not forget. School sports aren't just about winning, and
they're definitely not an excuse to take your frustrations out
on the official or the opponent. They are about teaching
lessons like perseverance, respect, and empathy so students can learn
and grow as people, not just as players. We all
have a role to play in setting a good example
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for our students and teaching them these important values. So fans,
it's time to step up your game and behave positively
at interscholastic athletic events in Kentucky.
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Brought to you by the Kentucky High School Athletic Association
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struck by vehicle. If you see flashing lights on the highway,
be sure to move over into the other lane.
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Help protect those who protect you.
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A message from the Kentucky State Police.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Months. Prostate cancer, of course,
the second most common cancer and men in the United
States one and eight men will be diagnosed in their lifetime.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Joining us is doctor Hinthan Fittel.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
He is with Northwestern Medicine and he's here to give
us a chat and a reminder.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Of why this is so important. Greetings, Doc, thanks for
taking time to join us.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
What is pronestate cancer and how are folks diagnosed?
Speaker 11 (03:11):
Yeah, so, the prostate cancer is the most common cancer
and men, and so I think it really goes back
to just kind of mental screening. Obviously, lots of cancers
can be screened for, and prostate cancer is one of
them that's highly diagnosable early and treatable. And so it's
something that, like you said, can be done very early
and easily. It's done by a PSA test, So prostate
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specific anddigen.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Obviously, I see a.
Speaker 11 (03:34):
Lot of patients that have high PSAs because I'm a
eurologic oncologist, but it's fairly common in general to be
screened for prostate cancer, and it's an easy blood test
that you start with.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Again, we're talking with doctor Hythan Bintell. He's with Northwestern
Medicine is we're wrapping up September Protestate Cancer Awareness Month,
and we're talking about ways you can help yourself and
make your life a little bit better, especially if you've
been recently die nosed with prostate cancer.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
So, Doc, what exactly is it in our folks diagnosed?
Speaker 11 (04:05):
When you have that blood test that's elevated the main
way we sample the prostate or look at the prostate,
its still from the same area. You still go in
the rectum with an ultrasound to look, but instead of
a pollop like you're looking for in the colon a rectum,
you're actually getting a biops so you're a needle sample
of the prostate. Now, most men don't need that. Most
men are just going to get a blood test and
then don't need anything else. But if that blood test
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goes up over time or passes a thresholder, we say, hey,
your risk maybe ten twenty percent for maybe having prostate cancer.
That's when I think about saying maybe it's worth doing
a biopsy. It is a little more invasive than just
a colonoscopy, but it's still pretty low invasiveness, and we
have better ways that are very safe of doing it,
and so we try not to biopsy men who don't
need it. But what we're going to see a lot
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of times now is a lesion on an MRI. So
we've gotten a lot better at biopsies by deciding who
needs one and doesn't by doing a prostate MRI with it,
which is less invasive and no real sampling or anything
going on. It's a scan, and if we do a scan,
we can say, hey, there's a lesion in the prostate
that really does need a biocy or there isn't one,
and a lot of men may not actually need anything more.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
At that point, he is doctor Hythan Ptelli's with Northwestern Medicine,
and we're talking prostate cancer in the September Prostate Cancer
Awareness Month, and Doc, what is driving this sudden awareness lately?
Speaker 11 (05:19):
Yeah, I think we have an easier time talking about it.
It's something that men didn't want to talk about or
something we screened for that you know, is associated with
just kind of privacy concerns and people feeling not as
open about it. But now we realize so because it's
so common and because it's highly curable, we can find
it early treat men that need it. I think a
lot of people now realize that there's a lot of
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prostate cancers that don't need treatment. So that's interesting to say, hey,
this is a low grade cancer that doesn't need treatment,
and we talk about it because a lot of men
are living with it, not needing treatment and not dying
from it. And so it's something we can monitor if
you have a low grade cancer. It's something we can
highly treat if you have an intermediate or high risk cancer,
and something we can manage. We can't cure if it's
spread out of the prostate, but something we can keep
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mentali a long time with therapies that we have. Ideally,
obviously we want to catch it before it spread and
manage it, but if it has, we still have very
good treatments.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Again, doctor hydem but tell us with us, he's with
Northwestern Medicine. We're talking September Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, and doc,
is there one driving factor or any certain person who's
at risk.
Speaker 12 (06:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (06:21):
I think for routine risk men, anyone in their age
of fifty to seventy is reasonable to do prostate cancer screening.
Some men that have either family history of prostate cancer
and a first degree relative, especially male relative, or if
they're African American, we tend to potentially buy screening earlier
because African American men have higher risk of prostate cancer,
and so even at age forty you might do a
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baseline PSA, but routine screening might start at forty five
for those at a little bit higher risk. If your
PSA is very low, then you might say, hey, you
don't need to be followed as closely. You know your
numbers are less than one, well, the old school number
of hate for PSAs over four, you should get a biopsy.
It's not one hundred percent the case anymore. That's still
an elevated number. But I think most men, you would say,
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if you get older, your PSA is always going to
go up, and it's just got to go up slowly.
And so that's why you need a physician to look
at the trend and say that, hey, is this an
appropriate and change for aging or is it a maybe
a suspicious rise that we should get a urologist to
look at you just to make sure that you're not
at higher risk of prostate cancer.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
So you're saying that as we age, it tends to
go up naturally, but not always cause for a major concern.
Speaker 11 (07:30):
Yeah, one hundred percent. So everyone who has a prostate
will always have PSA, which is the blood test that
we look at prostates pecific antigen and so as long
as you have a prostate, you're going to have some
PSA in the blood, and it's always going to go
up slowly over time. Prostates grow maybe a one gram
a year or so, and so it's going to get
a little bit higher, but it should be a nice
low trend. Some men it doesn't go higher at all,
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but a lot of men it's going to go higher
because a lot of men will get what we call
benign prostatic hyperplasia BPH or large prostate, So that usually
doesn't have any thing to do with cancer. That just
means your proces is getting bigger over time, and another
reason to potentially see urologists to help you with your
avoiding or peeing, you know, so you can urinate better.
But at the same time we can also evaluate, hey,
is that because of a benign issue where the procesely
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just getting bigger? Or should we look for cancer in
the prostate?
Speaker 1 (08:17):
And last question for you, doc, what do you say
to folks that are on the fence. They're just saying, Hey,
I'm real skittichh about getting this done.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
What do you tell them?
Speaker 11 (08:24):
You know, I tell them it starts with the conversation.
So there are some men who may not get screened
for prostate cancer. Maybe your risk is so low that
your primary doctor someone agrees that, hey, we don't need
to do it often, or maybe you're low enough that
we could stop. You know, it doesn't mean it's something
you have to do for the rest of your life.
But I think getting a baseline assessment just to see, hey,
where do you fall on the spectrum is important because
if we can find it early, it's highly curable. And
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I think that's just where it starts as a conversation.
And I would tell you that, you know, there are
some men that may feel that wall I just don't
want to diagnosis of it. Well, we're much better at
finding men who don't need treatment. So if you have
a lowrist prostate cancer then gets diagnosed you have. The
urologists are definitely not better now than twenty years ago,
saying we're comfortable watching it. So it's not like everyone
needs treatment. And if you need treatment, we can get
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it to you promptly, because I think that's important as
early diagnosis.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Again, thank you to doctor HYSM. Betel with Northwestern University.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Coming up?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Is it the cold or is it a flu?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
What you can be doing now to make sure you
don't experience any downtime this year or even worse hospitalization.
I'm Scott Fitzgerald and you're listening to Kentucky Focus.
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The age old question, is it the flu or just
a cold?
Speaker 1 (13:04):
As we start transitioning into the colder, whether more of
us are going to be inside more, increasing our chances
of catching a respiratory virus. This is why the Department
of Health and Human Services is encouraging us to risk
less and do more and visit vaccines.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Dot gov.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Joining us to talk about that is a doctor Nirab Shaw.
He is the Principal Deputy Director of the CDC. Doctor Shaw,
thanks for taking time to join us. So what is
our forecast for the flu this year?
Speaker 17 (13:32):
You know, flu season, respiratory virus season, it changes every year.
It's difficult to forecast. But what we do know is
that now that we're dealing out with us with two
viruses flu and RSV, but now with covid on board,
even a normal year is still a bad year. Here's
what I mean by that. If we have the same
respiratory season as we did last year, it will mean
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that eight hundred thousand people will have landed in the
hospital and seventy thousand people will have died. Those numbers
are unacceptable. Thankfully, we've got a great defense out there
and that those are the vaccines that I know we're
going to talk about. But getting vaccinated is your best
defense against flu, covid and RSP.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
We're talking with doctor Niravshaw, Principal Director, excuse me, Principal
Deputy Director of the CDC, encouraging us to risk lesson
do more and again. For more information on your vaccines,
please visit Vaccines dot gov. Doctor Shaw, what do we
know about this year's strain of the flu and covid
nineteen and how do the latest rounds of vaccine help us?
Speaker 17 (14:35):
Yep, Well, you know, viruses like flu and covid are
always changing, that's just what they do. And so what
we do on our end is try to update the
vaccines so that they've got the latest and greatest software
so that your body can be equipped to deal with
these viruses. It's kind of like an update that comes
over your phone. They make incremental improvements every couple of
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months to make sure, just like your phone, your body's
got the latest and greatest set of software available. And
that's what we do with the flu in covid vaccines.
We update them once a year so that you've got
the best available protection. And that's why when we say
you can risk less and do more, what we mean
is that you can reduce your risk of severe illness,
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which then enables you to do more of the things
that we all like doing this time of the year,
spending time with our family, going to events, being at church,
whatever the case may be. The vaccines reduce your risk
and they allow you to do more.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Doctor Darevshaw joining US Principal Deputy Director for this CDC.
As you heard doctor Shaw say there, we want to
risk less and do more. I personally have had both
the flu and the COVID nineteen vaccine.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
I hear you, Doc, I'm not taking a risk myself.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
But what do you say to those who continue to
be resistant to getting either the flu or the COVID vaccines?
Speaker 17 (15:53):
You know, Scott, there's two things I'll point to. One
is the number when you look at the number of
folks who got hospitalized because of COVID just last year,
just last year, ninety five percent of the people who
were hospitalized had not had their vaccine. So, right off
the bat, one of the ways that you can just
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look at the numbers and say, hey, are the vaccines
doing anything?
Speaker 18 (16:16):
Well?
Speaker 17 (16:16):
When you look at the people who got hospitalized and
you see that ninety five percent of them did not
have the vaccine, that's proof positive right there of the
value of the vaccine. But let's say that doesn't turn you.
Maybe that's not convincing, you know. The other thing I
would offer is that we trust doctors with everything in
our lives. We trust them to take care of our kids.
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Our parents when they get older, we trust them. When
we've got an emergency, we trust them if one of
our loved ones has cancer. And every single medical group
out there, the American Medical Association, the Academy of Pediatricians,
every single major medical group recommends the vaccines. And so
if we trust doctors for everything in our lives, why
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not also trust them when it comes to things like
the vaccines.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Absolutely, I have a great doctor and you're right on, doc,
that's for sure, Doctor nrav Shaw, he's the principal Deputy
director for the CDC, encouraging us to risk less and
do more and again for more information on these vaccines,
simply visit vaccines dot COVN Doctor Shaw, what we have
you spending some quality moments with you here, great conversation.
Could we ever see another pandemic on the levels we
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saw with COVID nineteen and do you think we're better
prepared now than we were in the wake of twenty twenty?
Speaker 17 (17:29):
Pandemics are a risk. In fact, one of the missions
of the CDC is to be on the lookout for
the next pandemic and make sure that we're prepared for it.
So if the question is could we see another pandemic.
The answer, sadly is yes. But that's what the CDC
is doing. We are the sort of lookout tower that's
out there scanning the globe for when and where the
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next pandemic might come from, and trying to extinguish it
at its source before it reaches pandemic levels. So the
answer is yes, another pandemic is possible. It's a risk,
but that's also what the CDC guards against every single day.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
I'm glad you mentioned that, doctor Shaw, because I don't
think a lot of people know that. They don't see
what happens behind the scenes. And again, doctor Nervshaw, Principal
Deputy Director of the CDC, joining us, just a couple
more quick questions for you, Doc. What we have is
just a fascinating conversation. Who is eligible for the vaccines
this year?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Doc, great question, Scott.
Speaker 17 (18:25):
So for the flu and covid shots, everyone six months
of age and up is eligible six months, so your
kids all the way up to your parents are eligible
for the flu and the covid shot. There's the third shot,
and there's a shot against a virus called RSV that
lands a lot of people in the hospital, particularly older folks.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
That shot.
Speaker 17 (18:47):
Anyone seventy five and over should definitely get that shot.
If you're between sixty and seventy four and you've got
other health conditions, maybe you've got asthma, things like that,
you should also get the shot. And if you're not sure,
it's a good idea check in with your healthcare provider
or your pharmacist. Our goal, Scott, is to try to
increase vaccination rates as much as possible. Last year in Kentucky,
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fourteen percent of adults got their COVID shot. Now, rates
of vaccination with the flu shot were a little bit higher,
only at fifty percent. But again, the risk of getting
hospitalized with these viruses is significant and the good news
is that the vaccines can cut that risk in half.
So we want that fourteen percent number to be as
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high as possible so we can drive down hospitalization rates.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Right on, and last question for again, great conversation, Doctor Nirvshaw,
Principal Deputy Director for the CDC encouraging us to risk
less and do more, and again want to remind you
if you have questions, go to vaccines dot gov and
doc last question for you, more on the medical side,
how can we effectively determine the difference, say between the.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Flu or a cold, and COVID.
Speaker 17 (19:55):
The best thing to do is to stock up on
tests because the COVID test, the rapid COVID tests, can
help you immediately tell what path you're going down. Here's
the good news there too, Scott. There are free COVID
tests available from the government. If you simply go to
COVID tests dot org, you can order up to four
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free COVID tests for your family Right now. I'm gonna
I did it this past weekend. The website is open,
and so that's one of the easiest ways where if
you're not feeling great, you can take a rapid test
and immediately get a read on whether you've got COVID
or something else.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Outstanding Doctor Niravshaw, Principal Deputy Director for the CDC, encouraging
us to risk less, do more and check out vaccines
dot gov. Doctor Shaw, this has been fascinating. Thank you
for taking time for us.
Speaker 17 (20:45):
Thanks Scott much appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Coming up manufacturing in Kentucky, the governor is taking notice.
I'm Scott vinzgeralding you're listening to Kentucky Focus.
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Speaker 19 (22:57):
From ABC News Tech Trends, blue chains are going to
start showing up on another app, and it's not a
social media platform this time. Uber is rolling out a
new verification system. CEO Dara Kosrashahi says it's meant to
work like TSA PreCheck does at airports.
Speaker 12 (23:14):
TSA PreCheck makes everyone on the plane feel safer.
Speaker 19 (23:17):
In particular, Uber verification is aimed at making drivers feel
safer when picking someone up, but riders could see a
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Late night et cetera.
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If you have a verified badge, you have an advantage
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Uber driver el Denise Jackson says she's more likely to
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It works by having users take a photo of their
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to the profile with tech trends, I'm Mike Debuski, ABC News.
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Welcome back, I'm Scott. That it's Joe. Then this is
Kentucky Focus.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Manufacturing is alive and well in the Commonwealth, according to
Governor Andy Bisheer. This week, the governor highlighted October as
manufacturing Month in Kentucky, as the industry continues to be
a key factor in Kentucky's record economic growth and job creation,
with more than six thousand facilities statewide employing over two
hundred and sixty thousand Kentuckians. Kentucky's best four years on
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record for private sector growth from twenty twenty to twenty
twenty three is being contributed to the growth of the
commonwealth's manufacturing presence and According to the governor, the industry
has spurred rising wages for families throughout the state. The
industry also contributes thirty eight billion dollars annually to the
state's gross domestic product. In twenty twenty three, manufacturing was
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responsible for three point seven billion dollars in new investment
and more than five eight hundred full time jobs for Kentuckians.
That's about eighty point four percent of all corporate investment
announced in the Commonwealth for the year and nearly sixty
eight percent job creation. The Governor's office is highlighting projects
lug Ford Motor Company and Skon's transformative five point eight
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billion dollar, five thousand job Blue Oval sk Battery Park
and Harding County, aesc's two billion dollar, two thousand job
gigafactory in Warren County, and of course, Toyota's one point
three billion dollar investment in Scott County. Not to be outdone,
mind you, by in fact, North America's fifty three million
dollar investment in Taylor County. Manufacturing certainly alive and well
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here in the Commonwealth. As the Governor appoints October again
Manufacturing Month in Kentucky, we're back to wrap things up
I'm Scott Fitzgerald and you're listening to Kentucky Focus.
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Just because September is over, Prosting Cancer Awareness Month has
come to an end doesn't mean our efforts to recognize
its severity need to. We'll show you just how easy
it is possibly save your own life. Was it's the
age old question, isn't a cold or something more? We'll
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talk to one of the nation's leading doctors about how
you can save yourself A lot of grief this winner.
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I'm Scott Fitzgerald. We've got that in Mark. Coming up
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Every flu season, thousands of children younger than five are
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You have the power to protect your loved ones this
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Have you noticed bad behavior has become normalized at interscholastic
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September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Months. Prostate cancer, of course,
the second most common cancer and men in the United
States one and eight men will be diagnosed in their lifetime.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Joining us is doctor Hinthan Fittel.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
He is with Northwestern Medicine and he's here to give
us a chat and a reminder.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Of why this is so important. Greetings, Doc, thanks for
taking time to join us.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
What is pronestate cancer and how are folks diagnosed?
Speaker 11 (03:11):
Yeah, so, the prostate cancer is the most common cancer
and men, and so I think it really goes back
to just kind of mental screening. Obviously, lots of cancers
can be screened for, and prostate cancer is one of
them that's highly diagnosable early and treatable. And so it's
something that, like you said, can be done very early
and easily. It's done by a PSA test, So prostate
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specific anddigen.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Obviously, I see a.
Speaker 11 (03:34):
Lot of patients that have high PSAs because I'm a
eurologic oncologist, but it's fairly common in general to be
screened for prostate cancer, and it's an easy blood test
that you start with.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Again, we're talking with doctor Hythan Bintell. He's with Northwestern
Medicine is we're wrapping up September Protestate Cancer Awareness Month,
and we're talking about ways you can help yourself and
make your life a little bit better, especially if you've
been recently die nosed with prostate cancer.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
So, Doc, what exactly is it in our folks diagnosed?
Speaker 11 (04:05):
When you have that blood test that's elevated the main
way we sample the prostate or look at the prostate,
its still from the same area. You still go in
the rectum with an ultrasound to look, but instead of
a pollop like you're looking for in the colon a rectum,
you're actually getting a biops so you're a needle sample
of the prostate. Now, most men don't need that. Most
men are just going to get a blood test and
then don't need anything else. But if that blood test
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goes up over time or passes a thresholder, we say, hey,
your risk maybe ten twenty percent for maybe having prostate cancer.
That's when I think about saying maybe it's worth doing
a biopsy. It is a little more invasive than just
a colonoscopy, but it's still pretty low invasiveness, and we
have better ways that are very safe of doing it,
and so we try not to biopsy men who don't
need it. But what we're going to see a lot
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of times now is a lesion on an MRI. So
we've gotten a lot better at biopsies by deciding who
needs one and doesn't by doing a prostate MRI with it,
which is less invasive and no real sampling or anything
going on. It's a scan, and if we do a scan,
we can say, hey, there's a lesion in the prostate
that really does need a biocy or there isn't one,
and a lot of men may not actually need anything more.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
At that point, he is doctor Hythan Ptelli's with Northwestern Medicine,
and we're talking prostate cancer in the September Prostate Cancer
Awareness Month, and Doc, what is driving this sudden awareness lately?
Speaker 11 (05:19):
Yeah, I think we have an easier time talking about it.
It's something that men didn't want to talk about or
something we screened for that you know, is associated with
just kind of privacy concerns and people feeling not as
open about it. But now we realize so because it's
so common and because it's highly curable, we can find
it early treat men that need it. I think a
lot of people now realize that there's a lot of
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prostate cancers that don't need treatment. So that's interesting to say, hey,
this is a low grade cancer that doesn't need treatment,
and we talk about it because a lot of men
are living with it, not needing treatment and not dying
from it. And so it's something we can monitor if
you have a low grade cancer. It's something we can
highly treat if you have an intermediate or high risk cancer,
and something we can manage. We can't cure if it's
spread out of the prostate, but something we can keep
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mentali a long time with therapies that we have. Ideally,
obviously we want to catch it before it spread and
manage it, but if it has, we still have very
good treatments.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Again, doctor hydem but tell us with us, he's with
Northwestern Medicine. We're talking September Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, and doc,
is there one driving factor or any certain person who's
at risk.
Speaker 12 (06:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (06:21):
I think for routine risk men, anyone in their age
of fifty to seventy is reasonable to do prostate cancer screening.
Some men that have either family history of prostate cancer
and a first degree relative, especially male relative, or if
they're African American, we tend to potentially buy screening earlier
because African American men have higher risk of prostate cancer,
and so even at age forty you might do a
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baseline PSA, but routine screening might start at forty five
for those at a little bit higher risk. If your
PSA is very low, then you might say, hey, you
don't need to be followed as closely. You know your
numbers are less than one, well, the old school number
of hate for PSAs over four, you should get a biopsy.
It's not one hundred percent the case anymore. That's still
an elevated number. But I think most men, you would say,
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if you get older, your PSA is always going to
go up, and it's just got to go up slowly.
And so that's why you need a physician to look
at the trend and say that, hey, is this an
appropriate and change for aging or is it a maybe
a suspicious rise that we should get a urologist to
look at you just to make sure that you're not
at higher risk of prostate cancer.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
So you're saying that as we age, it tends to
go up naturally, but not always cause for a major concern.
Speaker 11 (07:30):
Yeah, one hundred percent. So everyone who has a prostate
will always have PSA, which is the blood test that
we look at prostates pecific antigen and so as long
as you have a prostate, you're going to have some
PSA in the blood, and it's always going to go
up slowly over time. Prostates grow maybe a one gram
a year or so, and so it's going to get
a little bit higher, but it should be a nice
low trend. Some men it doesn't go higher at all,
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but a lot of men it's going to go higher
because a lot of men will get what we call
benign prostatic hyperplasia BPH or large prostate, So that usually
doesn't have any thing to do with cancer. That just
means your proces is getting bigger over time, and another
reason to potentially see urologists to help you with your
avoiding or peeing, you know, so you can urinate better.
But at the same time we can also evaluate, hey,
is that because of a benign issue where the procesely
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just getting bigger? Or should we look for cancer in
the prostate?
Speaker 1 (08:17):
And last question for you, doc, what do you say
to folks that are on the fence. They're just saying, Hey,
I'm real skittichh about getting this done.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
What do you tell them?
Speaker 11 (08:24):
You know, I tell them it starts with the conversation.
So there are some men who may not get screened
for prostate cancer. Maybe your risk is so low that
your primary doctor someone agrees that, hey, we don't need
to do it often, or maybe you're low enough that
we could stop. You know, it doesn't mean it's something
you have to do for the rest of your life.
But I think getting a baseline assessment just to see, hey,
where do you fall on the spectrum is important because
if we can find it early, it's highly curable. And
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I think that's just where it starts as a conversation.
And I would tell you that, you know, there are
some men that may feel that wall I just don't
want to diagnosis of it. Well, we're much better at
finding men who don't need treatment. So if you have
a lowrist prostate cancer then gets diagnosed you have. The
urologists are definitely not better now than twenty years ago,
saying we're comfortable watching it. So it's not like everyone
needs treatment. And if you need treatment, we can get
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it to you promptly, because I think that's important as
early diagnosis.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Again, thank you to doctor HYSM. Betel with Northwestern University.
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Coming up?
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Is it the cold or is it a flu?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
What you can be doing now to make sure you
don't experience any downtime this year or even worse hospitalization.
I'm Scott Fitzgerald and you're listening to Kentucky Focus.
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Speaker 2 (13:01):
The age old question, is it the flu or just
a cold?
Speaker 1 (13:04):
As we start transitioning into the colder, whether more of
us are going to be inside more, increasing our chances
of catching a respiratory virus. This is why the Department
of Health and Human Services is encouraging us to risk
less and do more and visit vaccines.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Dot gov.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Joining us to talk about that is a doctor Nirab Shaw.
He is the Principal Deputy Director of the CDC. Doctor Shaw,
thanks for taking time to join us. So what is
our forecast for the flu this year?
Speaker 17 (13:32):
You know, flu season, respiratory virus season, it changes every year.
It's difficult to forecast. But what we do know is
that now that we're dealing out with us with two
viruses flu and RSV, but now with covid on board,
even a normal year is still a bad year. Here's
what I mean by that. If we have the same
respiratory season as we did last year, it will mean
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that eight hundred thousand people will have landed in the
hospital and seventy thousand people will have died. Those numbers
are unacceptable. Thankfully, we've got a great defense out there
and that those are the vaccines that I know we're
going to talk about. But getting vaccinated is your best
defense against flu, covid and RSP.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
We're talking with doctor Niravshaw, Principal Director, excuse me, Principal
Deputy Director of the CDC, encouraging us to risk lesson
do more and again. For more information on your vaccines,
please visit Vaccines dot gov. Doctor Shaw, what do we
know about this year's strain of the flu and covid
nineteen and how do the latest rounds of vaccine help us?
Speaker 17 (14:35):
Yep, Well, you know, viruses like flu and covid are
always changing, that's just what they do. And so what
we do on our end is try to update the
vaccines so that they've got the latest and greatest software
so that your body can be equipped to deal with
these viruses. It's kind of like an update that comes
over your phone. They make incremental improvements every couple of
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months to make sure, just like your phone, your body's
got the latest and greatest set of software available. And
that's what we do with the flu in covid vaccines.
We update them once a year so that you've got
the best available protection. And that's why when we say
you can risk less and do more, what we mean
is that you can reduce your risk of severe illness,
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which then enables you to do more of the things
that we all like doing this time of the year,
spending time with our family, going to events, being at church,
whatever the case may be. The vaccines reduce your risk
and they allow you to do more.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Doctor Darevshaw joining US Principal Deputy Director for this CDC.
As you heard doctor Shaw say there, we want to
risk less and do more. I personally have had both
the flu and the COVID nineteen vaccine.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
I hear you, Doc, I'm not taking a risk myself.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
But what do you say to those who continue to
be resistant to getting either the flu or the COVID vaccines?
Speaker 17 (15:53):
You know, Scott, there's two things I'll point to. One
is the number when you look at the number of
folks who got hospitalized because of COVID just last year,
just last year, ninety five percent of the people who
were hospitalized had not had their vaccine. So, right off
the bat, one of the ways that you can just
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look at the numbers and say, hey, are the vaccines
doing anything?
Speaker 18 (16:16):
Well?
Speaker 17 (16:16):
When you look at the people who got hospitalized and
you see that ninety five percent of them did not
have the vaccine, that's proof positive right there of the
value of the vaccine. But let's say that doesn't turn you.
Maybe that's not convincing, you know. The other thing I
would offer is that we trust doctors with everything in
our lives. We trust them to take care of our kids.
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Our parents when they get older, we trust them. When
we've got an emergency, we trust them if one of
our loved ones has cancer. And every single medical group
out there, the American Medical Association, the Academy of Pediatricians,
every single major medical group recommends the vaccines. And so
if we trust doctors for everything in our lives, why
(16:59):
not also trust them when it comes to things like
the vaccines.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Absolutely, I have a great doctor and you're right on, doc,
that's for sure, Doctor nrav Shaw, he's the principal Deputy
director for the CDC, encouraging us to risk less and
do more and again for more information on these vaccines,
simply visit vaccines dot COVN Doctor Shaw, what we have
you spending some quality moments with you here, great conversation.
Could we ever see another pandemic on the levels we
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saw with COVID nineteen and do you think we're better
prepared now than we were in the wake of twenty twenty?
Speaker 17 (17:29):
Pandemics are a risk. In fact, one of the missions
of the CDC is to be on the lookout for
the next pandemic and make sure that we're prepared for it.
So if the question is could we see another pandemic.
The answer, sadly is yes. But that's what the CDC
is doing. We are the sort of lookout tower that's
out there scanning the globe for when and where the
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next pandemic might come from, and trying to extinguish it
at its source before it reaches pandemic levels. So the
answer is yes, another pandemic is possible. It's a risk,
but that's also what the CDC guards against every single day.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
I'm glad you mentioned that, doctor Shaw, because I don't
think a lot of people know that. They don't see
what happens behind the scenes. And again, doctor Nervshaw, Principal
Deputy Director of the CDC, joining us, just a couple
more quick questions for you, Doc. What we have is
just a fascinating conversation. Who is eligible for the vaccines
this year?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Doc, great question, Scott.
Speaker 17 (18:25):
So for the flu and covid shots, everyone six months
of age and up is eligible six months, so your
kids all the way up to your parents are eligible
for the flu and the covid shot. There's the third shot,
and there's a shot against a virus called RSV that
lands a lot of people in the hospital, particularly older folks.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
That shot.
Speaker 17 (18:47):
Anyone seventy five and over should definitely get that shot.
If you're between sixty and seventy four and you've got
other health conditions, maybe you've got asthma, things like that,
you should also get the shot. And if you're not sure,
it's a good idea check in with your healthcare provider
or your pharmacist. Our goal, Scott, is to try to
increase vaccination rates as much as possible. Last year in Kentucky,
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fourteen percent of adults got their COVID shot. Now, rates
of vaccination with the flu shot were a little bit higher,
only at fifty percent. But again, the risk of getting
hospitalized with these viruses is significant and the good news
is that the vaccines can cut that risk in half.
So we want that fourteen percent number to be as
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high as possible so we can drive down hospitalization rates.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Right on, and last question for again, great conversation, Doctor Nirvshaw,
Principal Deputy Director for the CDC encouraging us to risk
less and do more, and again want to remind you
if you have questions, go to vaccines dot gov and
doc last question for you, more on the medical side,
how can we effectively determine the difference, say between the.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Flu or a cold, and COVID.
Speaker 17 (19:55):
The best thing to do is to stock up on
tests because the COVID test, the rapid COVID tests, can
help you immediately tell what path you're going down. Here's
the good news there too, Scott. There are free COVID
tests available from the government. If you simply go to
COVID tests dot org, you can order up to four
(20:16):
free COVID tests for your family Right now. I'm gonna
I did it this past weekend. The website is open,
and so that's one of the easiest ways where if
you're not feeling great, you can take a rapid test
and immediately get a read on whether you've got COVID
or something else.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Outstanding Doctor Niravshaw, Principal Deputy Director for the CDC, encouraging
us to risk less, do more and check out vaccines
dot gov. Doctor Shaw, this has been fascinating. Thank you
for taking time for us.
Speaker 17 (20:45):
Thanks Scott much appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Coming up manufacturing in Kentucky, the governor is taking notice.
I'm Scott vinzgeralding you're listening to Kentucky Focus.
Speaker 10 (20:58):
Hey, wouldn't it be great if life came with remote control.
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You know, you could hit.
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Pause when you needed to or hit rewant like that
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Fantastic.
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Speaker 19 (22:57):
From ABC News Tech Trends, blue chains are going to
start showing up on another app, and it's not a
social media platform this time. Uber is rolling out a
new verification system. CEO Dara Kosrashahi says it's meant to
work like TSA PreCheck does at airports.
Speaker 12 (23:14):
TSA PreCheck makes everyone on the plane feel safer.
Speaker 19 (23:17):
In particular, Uber verification is aimed at making drivers feel
safer when picking someone up, but riders could see a
benefit too.
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Late night et cetera.
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If you have a verified badge, you have an advantage
over someone who might not be verified.
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Uber driver el Denise Jackson says she's more likely to
pick up verified riders for peace of mind.
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If you're verified, it just helps us say, yep, we'll
get that ride.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
You'll get a ride quicker.
Speaker 20 (23:43):
It just makes life easier for everybody.
Speaker 19 (23:44):
It works by having users take a photo of their
ID and then a selfie, after which the app will
match the two pictures and assign a blue check mark
to the profile with tech trends, I'm Mike Debuski, ABC News.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Welcome back, I'm Scott. That it's Joe. Then this is
Kentucky Focus.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Manufacturing is alive and well in the Commonwealth, according to
Governor Andy Bisheer. This week, the governor highlighted October as
manufacturing Month in Kentucky, as the industry continues to be
a key factor in Kentucky's record economic growth and job creation,
with more than six thousand facilities statewide employing over two
hundred and sixty thousand Kentuckians. Kentucky's best four years on
(24:23):
record for private sector growth from twenty twenty to twenty
twenty three is being contributed to the growth of the
commonwealth's manufacturing presence and According to the governor, the industry
has spurred rising wages for families throughout the state. The
industry also contributes thirty eight billion dollars annually to the
state's gross domestic product. In twenty twenty three, manufacturing was
(24:44):
responsible for three point seven billion dollars in new investment
and more than five eight hundred full time jobs for Kentuckians.
That's about eighty point four percent of all corporate investment
announced in the Commonwealth for the year and nearly sixty
eight percent job creation. The Governor's office is highlighting projects
lug Ford Motor Company and Skon's transformative five point eight
(25:06):
billion dollar, five thousand job Blue Oval sk Battery Park
and Harding County, aesc's two billion dollar, two thousand job
gigafactory in Warren County, and of course, Toyota's one point
three billion dollar investment in Scott County. Not to be outdone,
mind you, by in fact, North America's fifty three million
dollar investment in Taylor County. Manufacturing certainly alive and well
(25:29):
here in the Commonwealth. As the Governor appoints October again
Manufacturing Month in Kentucky, we're back to wrap things up
I'm Scott Fitzgerald and you're listening to Kentucky Focus.
Speaker 6 (25:44):
Oh Bra, that's buzzed. Oh yeah yeah, he's starting with
the woots.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
And now a speech.
Speaker 19 (25:51):
I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
art and brain.
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Who's with me?
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Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed.
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My brain is saying, when it's time to go home,
Somebody call me a ride.
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Love that guy, me too, know your buzzed warning signs,
call for a ride when it's time to go home.
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Buzz driving is drunk driving.
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A message FROMITZA and the AD Council that's gonna.
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Put a round.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
And this week Shell thank you again to doctor Hythan
Patel with Northwestern University for reminding us how important it.
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Is to keep your eyes with that must state health
cut again save your life.
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Also thank you to doctor Neershaw, Principal Deputy Director of
the CDC. And if you want more information, or maybe
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Forward slash risk Glass do more for all of us
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Scott Fitzgerald saying, make it a safe and happy week.
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We'll talk to you next time on Kentucky Focus.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Kentucky Focus on the Kentucky News Network, the show that
looks at issues affecting theealth and it's citizens. We cover
state politics, in history, human interest stories, sports, and even entertainment.
It's Kentucky Focus on kNN.
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You know, I grew up hearing that women are bad
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