Lance Armstrong's doc will have none of it!!
Yeah, Dr. Craig Nichols is not a fan of all this hype surrounding the so-called "Lance Armstrong effect". Why he agreed to interview with me I don't know.. but it makes me very very very happy.
Here is the full interview which explains the one benefit Dr. Nichols sees in all of this. The weird times you see in there are my timecode. It's basically information embedded into the tape that tells me where that snippet of sound actually lives on the tape. We have special machines that can read it ((similar to the counter on your DVD or VHS player)). PS. I don't have spellcheck. ;-)
1:24 "I've read it fairly carefully and discussed it with a number of colleagues of mine and 1:31 I think my initial impression remains unchanged that this is very highly speculative. 1:39 There really isn't a thread of connection presented nor that I'm aware of that heat sensitivity of germ cells has anything to do with the efficacy of treatments." 1:56
1:56 "And I'm concerned that these investigators basically coopted Lance's brand to try and identify this effect when there is no evidence for this effect to be able to spin thier theory." 2:16
2:16 "There is some science behind it but in the article nor in the literature is there any scientific connection between the heat sensitivity of germ cells and the efficasy of therapy." 2:30
2:33 "I think they used the name to attract interest and provide a forum for thier ideas." 2:40
3:00 "You can certainly imagine a benefit. It does highlight the importance of basic science understanding of germ cell tumors and other cancers and the fundamental question is why are germ cells so sensitive to this drug called Cicplatin-- not only sensitive but durably sensitive in that it eliminates the disease whereas other cancers do not repsond to [the drug] or respond to [the drug] but not in a durable fashion." 3:42
3:45 "So it highlights the need to have molecular, genetic and biological understanding of these cancer processes if we are going to have steps forward." 3:55
3:55 "And that is a buried theme in there which I think is important but in the press that hasn't come out that this is really a discussion of understanding biology of germ cell tumors rather than focusing on this heat and hyperthermia which really I think is tangential to the issue." 4:25
4:40 "I think it is important to recognize this is not a clinical study and there is no clinical evidence whatsoever that hyperthermia has a role in germ cell tumors and frankly little clinical evidence that it has a role in very many tumors at all... 5:00 that this is a biological discussion, a commentary. This is not a scientific paper. It's not a clinical scientific paper. And it doesn't suggest that we have found a new approach to testes cancer or other cancers for that matter." 5:20
((I asked for clarification on the Lance angle))
5:38 "That's one of the things that dissapoints me the most is that they've taken advantage of his celebrity to hype this discussion and attribute his successful outcome to their their theory or effect." 6:00
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Still to come: I snapped a picture of Cosmo Kramer which I will share.. YOU sounded off about the "Knock knock can I draw your blood story?"... and find out how my latest attempt to cook turned into THIS:
How embarrasing. Definitely worse than what happened to me today. I could SWEAR I saw Lance riding up Terwilliger on my way back from the interview. I asked phojo Kurt to double back because I wasn't sure. It was sooo not him. And I think the poor guy on the bike thought I was crazy. By the way, even if it was I would have totally left him alone... I hear Lance dislikes the media stuff and besides, he'd be out riding!! Who wants to be pestered then?? I just wanted to know if it was him.
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