Transcript excerpt from a video discussing world-leading medical experts on mast cell activation syndromes (MCAS). Speaker A names Dr. Afrin and Dr. Theorides as clinicians who recognized non-cancerous mast cell disorders and influenced clinical understanding and practice.
There are a few. It's not a lot of people but a handful of people in the world who are expert in this area. One of them is Dr. Afrin. Yes, the same name as the over the counter drug, but it's not his drug. Dr. Afrin is a oncologist. He's a hematologist, oncologist. And so they were often people who would be sent patients with the obviously cancerous type of mastocytosis. Now what he and a lot of the rest of us started to see was he would work these people up for the cancer type of mastocytosis and notice it wasn't that and they really didn't have the laboratory characteristics of mastocytosis that was non cancerous. So he started to write about this. Now there's also another doctor named Dr. Theorides who is the first expert that I came into contact with a long time ago when I was trying to sort out patients who didn't have cancer but had all these mast cell problems that they were going on. And he was the first expert I started reading and it help illuminate my practice than Dr. Afrin and there's many other folks.
