Another "experiment" in information delivery. Please let me know in replies what you think.
In this @Malecare presentation, Dr. Jeffrey Jones, a Navy Urologist and flight surgeon, dives deep into the link between military service and prostate cancer. With experience treating both veterans and astronauts, Dr. Jones explores how epigenetics, radiation, and chemical exposures unique to military life may increase cancer risk. He discusses the potential long-term effects of radiation from high-altitude flights, depleted uranium in ammunition, and burn pits. Dr. Jones also highlights racial disparities in prostate cancer outcomes and how the military healthcare system is closing the gap. Watch to learn more about the "cocktail effect" of environmental factors on health and the importance of early diagnosis.
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The video seems to be speculative. I have not read of any evidence that prostate cancer could be caused by environmental factors like high-altitude flights, depleted uranium in ammunition, and burn pits.
Indeed, which is why the podcasters state that they are recapping a talk by the Navy and NASA urologist, Dr. Jeffrey Jones, and not a peer reviewed paper.
BUT, what I am most interested in are your thoughts on the information delivery method I am trying. Was this five minute video easy to learn from?
" I am most interested in are your thoughts on the information delivery method I am trying. Was this five minute video easy to learn from?"
Not for me. I thought it was too time consuming for the information. I would have preferred to read a transcript or a summary, where I could skim, jump around, and re-read. I do that anyway with videos, and often miss critical spots. The video could have been summarized in one paragraph. Plus, when I went back to watch it again, it wanted me to log in to show I was not a bot, and I did not know what to do.
But this video did not exist in writing, so I understand that watching was the only way to get the information.
Darryl said "The video is both voice and transcript——were you unable to read the displayed text?? Also the video is on YouTube. YouTube doesn’t require login just to watch videos." I had just watched from our website. I read the text which appeared as subtitles as people spoke, not as a text article. I have now seen it on YouTube with no login.
I am a Viet Nam veteran. I had little to no exposure to Agent Orange or burn pits.
I think it's much more likely that my prostate cancer is associated with living downwind from a nuclear war for the first nine months and sixteen years of my life. Between 1945 and 1963 they set off somewhere around 160 to 200+ nukes in Nevada. The fallout from those was measurable everywhere in the eastern US. Many of us were exposed in utero and while we were growing up.
There was a documented spike in male cancers in the years after the nuclear war. Is there any better explanation for the high level of prostate cancer among my cohort? Most of that cohort did not go to Viet Nam.
First of all, thank you for your service. Agent orange has been linked to prostate cancer. My buddy has prostate cancer which was diagnosed about 8 years ago. He receives $2700 a month from a settlement with the chemical companies that manufactured it.
I thought it was interesting, but would have preferred to hear from Dr Jones directly.
Like him, I served in the Navy. I flew F-18s, and I suspect (without proof) that my excess radiation exposure probably caught me. I have no family or genetic backgrounds which would place me at risk.
The format has potential, but when you read the description of the video on YouTube, you don't get what's advertised when you watch the actual video.
"In this @Malecare presentation, Dr. Jeffrey Jones, a Navy Urologist and flight surgeon, dives deep into the link between military service and prostate cancer. "
Instead of Dr. Jones speaking (as promised in the description), it's your team members summarizing his talk. (I'll have to watch his video you posted to see if the summary aligns with his talk—seemed a bit scattered to me.)
I will admit that, as a Navy veteran myself, the topic did grab my attention, and it caused me to do a quick search to see whether there was a difference in the rate of prostate cancer in veterans versus the rate in the general population.
My search results showed that 1 in 5 veterans will be diagnosed with PCa, versus 1 in 9 men in the general population. I was unaware of those stats.
It may have been helpful to lead the video with those stats to provide context as to why discussing this topic is so important.
I worked on a project testing some of the dyes used by the military. Only one of the dyes turned out to be a long lasting carcinogen. Many years later I was horrified when I learned accidentally that this dye was used to call in the medivac helicopters. The veteran had wondered why the colors were changed.
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