November 20, 2024 • 7 mins
Seattle Kraken Team Physician, and team physician with the Seattle Mariners as well, Dr. Henry Pelto joins Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain on Hockey Fights Cancer Day to discuss the importance of cancer testing and screening and what people should do now.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Beat on your favorite items now with ninety three three
KJR dot com during Hockey Fights Cancer Day, all benefiting
Virginia Mason Franciscan. He now back to Safti and dig all.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Right, here we go Petros coming up at four o'clock
today on.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
The radio show Kevin Hard on at five.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
But Hockey Fights Cancer Month is in full effect in
sports radio ninety three to three KJRFM and The Cracking
teaming up to raise funds for Virginia Mason Franciscan Health.
We got some awesome auction items up on the website
including Tunnel Club. Take us to see John Legend, watch
the Kraken Right is Zmboni.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
We're gonna fight cancer together.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
So make a play for your health with Virginia Mason
Franciscan Health by getting screen joining us right now on
the radio show. He was so good last year we
invited him back again to join us on the air.
Our friend from the Crack and the Mariners, doctor Henry
Pelto Doctor Pelto.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
How are you, Saftie?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I'm tigulous are you?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
We're good man? Good to give it back on the show.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
And first of all, thanks for all you guys are
doing over there and let's just talk about this fight.
And every year I kind of ask you the same question.
How much closer are we today than we were at
this time a year ago to maybe kind of beating
this thing and getting out of cancer forever.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Yeah. I think, as we talked before, it's a continual
process of improvement for everybody from a screening perspective, which
is a lot we're talking about with the Virginias Franciscan
Health today, and then the treatments and the evaluation and
all this stuff just continues to grow and evolve and
get more specific to individual types of cancers and individual
(01:33):
people with cancers, family history, real specific cell based therapy,
things like that are It's just so exciting. It's just
a great area of medicine and something that we're just
going to keep kind of pushing forward as a community
to save lives and make this thing something that people
just don't have to deal with it, don't have to
worry about or able to really treat effectively as we
move forward.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Well, doctor, it's good to have you back on again.
And I guess for me, you know, I'm fifty years
old now, I kind of need like the rule of
thumb on when to get say how often to get screened?
What am I supposed to get screened for? I mean,
I want to get screened, it's just a matter of
knowing when and how often.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yeah, I think it's it's a really good point. I think,
you know, one of the most important pieces of this
relationship with the primary care doctor and having that annual visit,
especially as we get you know, not younger, as we
move forward and get into our forties, fifties and beyond,
that's really when we start to see the importance is
screening come up and your point is really well taken.
We want kind of the check mark or checkbox and
(02:33):
what do I get at this age and we have
some of that cancer if you don't have a history
of rust to cancer and your family, fifty is really
the year we start to encourage people to get a
PSA and get that checked. That said, if you have
family history or other risk factors and that you know,
moves a little bit younger and we want to get
to check sooner. You know a lot of people probably
know we used to say fifty to get a colonoscopy.
(02:56):
That's moved down to forty five now, and that can
go even lower if you have family history or other
risk factors that would have us move sooner. So you're
kind of in the forty to fifty ranges when you
really want to start thinking about these things unless you
have a history of people of cancer in your family
much younger, which like I said before, is and even
more even an ensue for even younger ages. But having
(03:18):
that conversation every year with your doctors just storry. Here's
where I am. Sometimes we learn new things about family
members year to year. Making sure we're checking in and
running that list with them every year is a really
important piece of cancer screening and you get the stuff
you need the eh that you need it and stay
as safe as possible.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Well Doctor Henry Pelto with Hockey Fights Cancer Month, and
we're teaming up today to raise money for Virginia Mason
Franciscan Health with some pretty awesome auction items on the website.
You can bet on a Zamboni ride, lower ball seats
to the January twenty third game against the Capitals, tickets
to go see John Legends Christmas at CPA. Tickets for
the Ottawa game coming up obviously on the seventeenth of
(03:55):
December of the February game against Toronto and doctor, I'm
just cure cious about signs. I mean, you mentioned conoscopy,
and I've had mine, Dix had his, obviously, I'm fifty
two years old almost. But are there signs for some
of the older people that we can look for. I
think I told you last time he around with us
that my dad passed away a couple of years ago
from lymphoma in his brain. And there was a day
where I went over there. He was just tired. He
(04:16):
just couldn't wake him up. I think it's just exhausted, whatever,
no big deal. Are there signs that people should be
looking for that says, hey, you got to go find
out right away if this is a cancer situation.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Yeah, it's I'm so sorry about your dad again. I
remember that really well. And a hard part about a
lot of cancers is there aren't at least early on,
but this is. But some there certainly are. So we
you know, we're talking a lot about prostate cancer this year,
with the PSA available even to the game tonight for
a Hockey Fights Cancer. You know, if you have noticed
(04:49):
that you'reine changing your year and blooding your yearine going
more frequently at night, changing the stream. This can all
be very normal anciently, the things that this can also
be signs of cancer, similar types of things with bow cancer,
colon cancer, blood in your stool, change in frequency, frequency consistency. Again,
these things can come with diet and just normal aging,
(05:11):
that kind of stuff. But again back to our conversation
about having a good relationship with your docs. Get those
things checked out. If there's a delta change from what
your normal is, have a conversation, see what they think
about that. Do we need to do some evaluation, lab
works imaging that kind of stuff to rule out cancer,
amongst other things. And it's important to check in when
(05:32):
things are shifting and changing from what your typical is.
And those are a few for prostate and colon certainly
self exams and checking for lumps and for breast cancer.
Things like that are really important to check. And then
you talk to your docs just the good rules thumbs.
Things are shifting, get a hold of them, have a
conversation and see what we need to do to keep
you healthy for a long time.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Finally, for me, I know there was a problem for
a long time. Maybe there still is. You can tell
me of especially men being like I don't need to
get checked out. I don't need to go to do
Are you seeing men these days more willing to go
to the doctor and get screened than they were when
you started your practice?
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Yeah? I think so. I think it's my experience has
been that way. I don't know that that's as widespread
as we would like it to be, but I think
things like hockey fights cancer and having our young athletes
out there saying hey, get this stuff checked and producing
some of the stigma around it, I think it's true.
And mental health, I think it's true. And more general
health too is when we struggle, we have issues, we
need to watch out for each other, and we got
(06:30):
to encourage each other to get to the doctor, get
checked regularly, or if anything moves or shifts. As we know,
sometimes things just get too far and it's too late.
And if we would have stepped in a little bit sooner,
said something to our brothers, said something to our best bud,
I think you can share that it's going to back
and forth and make sure taking care of each other
and encouraging those kind of interventions, we're all going to
(06:51):
be better for it. So talk to your friends, talk
to your family, let's take care of each other.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, don't be afraid to talk about it for sure,
Doctor Pelto. Hey, great stuff. Ben, keep up the good
work and we will talk down the road. Man, Thank
you for doing this. Appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Thanks guys, thanks for doing this all today. Really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
It's our pleasure. Hockey Fights Cancer Month again. Get to
the website ninety three three k j R F m
KJR dot com excuse me, and you can find some
pretty cool auction items on there as well to bid on,
all raising money for Virginia Mason Franciscan Health. We'll get
a break. Petro's gonna join us Kevin Hardin at five.
Petros coming next on ninety three three KJR FM
Beat on your favorite items now with ninety three three
KJR dot com during Hockey Fights Cancer Day, all benefiting
Virginia Mason Franciscan. He now back to Safti and dig all.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Right, here we go Petros coming up at four o'clock
today on.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
The radio show Kevin Hard on at five.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
But Hockey Fights Cancer Month is in full effect in
sports radio ninety three to three KJRFM and The Cracking
teaming up to raise funds for Virginia Mason Franciscan Health.
We got some awesome auction items up on the website
including Tunnel Club. Take us to see John Legend, watch
the Kraken Right is Zmboni.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
We're gonna fight cancer together.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
So make a play for your health with Virginia Mason
Franciscan Health by getting screen joining us right now on
the radio show. He was so good last year we
invited him back again to join us on the air.
Our friend from the Crack and the Mariners, doctor Henry
Pelto Doctor Pelto.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
How are you, Saftie?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I'm tigulous are you?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
We're good man? Good to give it back on the show.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
And first of all, thanks for all you guys are
doing over there and let's just talk about this fight.
And every year I kind of ask you the same question.
How much closer are we today than we were at
this time a year ago to maybe kind of beating
this thing and getting out of cancer forever.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Yeah. I think, as we talked before, it's a continual
process of improvement for everybody from a screening perspective, which
is a lot we're talking about with the Virginias Franciscan
Health today, and then the treatments and the evaluation and
all this stuff just continues to grow and evolve and
get more specific to individual types of cancers and individual
(01:33):
people with cancers, family history, real specific cell based therapy,
things like that are It's just so exciting. It's just
a great area of medicine and something that we're just
going to keep kind of pushing forward as a community
to save lives and make this thing something that people
just don't have to deal with it, don't have to
worry about or able to really treat effectively as we
move forward.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Well, doctor, it's good to have you back on again.
And I guess for me, you know, I'm fifty years
old now, I kind of need like the rule of
thumb on when to get say how often to get screened?
What am I supposed to get screened for? I mean,
I want to get screened, it's just a matter of
knowing when and how often.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yeah, I think it's it's a really good point. I think,
you know, one of the most important pieces of this
relationship with the primary care doctor and having that annual visit,
especially as we get you know, not younger, as we
move forward and get into our forties, fifties and beyond,
that's really when we start to see the importance is
screening come up and your point is really well taken.
We want kind of the check mark or checkbox and
(02:33):
what do I get at this age and we have
some of that cancer if you don't have a history
of rust to cancer and your family, fifty is really
the year we start to encourage people to get a
PSA and get that checked. That said, if you have
family history or other risk factors and that you know,
moves a little bit younger and we want to get
to check sooner. You know a lot of people probably
know we used to say fifty to get a colonoscopy.
(02:56):
That's moved down to forty five now, and that can
go even lower if you have family history or other
risk factors that would have us move sooner. So you're
kind of in the forty to fifty ranges when you
really want to start thinking about these things unless you
have a history of people of cancer in your family
much younger, which like I said before, is and even
more even an ensue for even younger ages. But having
(03:18):
that conversation every year with your doctors just storry. Here's
where I am. Sometimes we learn new things about family
members year to year. Making sure we're checking in and
running that list with them every year is a really
important piece of cancer screening and you get the stuff
you need the eh that you need it and stay
as safe as possible.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Well Doctor Henry Pelto with Hockey Fights Cancer Month, and
we're teaming up today to raise money for Virginia Mason
Franciscan Health with some pretty awesome auction items on the website.
You can bet on a Zamboni ride, lower ball seats
to the January twenty third game against the Capitals, tickets
to go see John Legends Christmas at CPA. Tickets for
the Ottawa game coming up obviously on the seventeenth of
(03:55):
December of the February game against Toronto and doctor, I'm
just cure cious about signs. I mean, you mentioned conoscopy,
and I've had mine, Dix had his, obviously, I'm fifty
two years old almost. But are there signs for some
of the older people that we can look for. I
think I told you last time he around with us
that my dad passed away a couple of years ago
from lymphoma in his brain. And there was a day
where I went over there. He was just tired. He
(04:16):
just couldn't wake him up. I think it's just exhausted, whatever,
no big deal. Are there signs that people should be
looking for that says, hey, you got to go find
out right away if this is a cancer situation.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Yeah, it's I'm so sorry about your dad again. I
remember that really well. And a hard part about a
lot of cancers is there aren't at least early on,
but this is. But some there certainly are. So we
you know, we're talking a lot about prostate cancer this year,
with the PSA available even to the game tonight for
a Hockey Fights Cancer. You know, if you have noticed
(04:49):
that you'reine changing your year and blooding your yearine going
more frequently at night, changing the stream. This can all
be very normal anciently, the things that this can also
be signs of cancer, similar types of things with bow cancer,
colon cancer, blood in your stool, change in frequency, frequency consistency. Again,
these things can come with diet and just normal aging,
(05:11):
that kind of stuff. But again back to our conversation
about having a good relationship with your docs. Get those
things checked out. If there's a delta change from what
your normal is, have a conversation, see what they think
about that. Do we need to do some evaluation, lab
works imaging that kind of stuff to rule out cancer,
amongst other things. And it's important to check in when
(05:32):
things are shifting and changing from what your typical is.
And those are a few for prostate and colon certainly
self exams and checking for lumps and for breast cancer.
Things like that are really important to check. And then
you talk to your docs just the good rules thumbs.
Things are shifting, get a hold of them, have a
conversation and see what we need to do to keep
you healthy for a long time.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Finally, for me, I know there was a problem for
a long time. Maybe there still is. You can tell
me of especially men being like I don't need to
get checked out. I don't need to go to do
Are you seeing men these days more willing to go
to the doctor and get screened than they were when
you started your practice?
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Yeah? I think so. I think it's my experience has
been that way. I don't know that that's as widespread
as we would like it to be, but I think
things like hockey fights cancer and having our young athletes
out there saying hey, get this stuff checked and producing
some of the stigma around it, I think it's true.
And mental health, I think it's true. And more general
health too is when we struggle, we have issues, we
need to watch out for each other, and we got
(06:30):
to encourage each other to get to the doctor, get
checked regularly, or if anything moves or shifts. As we know,
sometimes things just get too far and it's too late.
And if we would have stepped in a little bit sooner,
said something to our brothers, said something to our best bud,
I think you can share that it's going to back
and forth and make sure taking care of each other
and encouraging those kind of interventions, we're all going to
(06:51):
be better for it. So talk to your friends, talk
to your family, let's take care of each other.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, don't be afraid to talk about it for sure,
Doctor Pelto. Hey, great stuff. Ben, keep up the good
work and we will talk down the road. Man, Thank
you for doing this. Appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Thanks guys, thanks for doing this all today. Really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
It's our pleasure. Hockey Fights Cancer Month again. Get to
the website ninety three three k j R F m
KJR dot com excuse me, and you can find some
pretty cool auction items on there as well to bid on,
all raising money for Virginia Mason Franciscan Health. We'll get
a break. Petro's gonna join us Kevin Hardin at five.
Petros coming next on ninety three three KJR FM
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