Taylor Dukes discusses her brain tumor with Robert Whitfield MD, who explains that natural killer cells normally catch cancer early. Whitfield notes NK cell suppression may be linked to breast implants, though other causes exist, and Taylor's tumor likely grew undetected for seven to ten years.
"Maybe seven to eight years, maybe 10 years".
Natural killer (NK) cells.
So. And also I think it really freaks people out when they hear, like, Taylor Dukes, the healthy person, had a brain tumor. But what I always like to remind people is in my neurosurgeon, neuro, oncologist, everyone have said this has been growing for years, so it didn't happen overnight. But it was the perfect storm with my immune system that was suppressed. You know, it had been growing for maybe seven to eight years, maybe 10 years, they said.
All right. So what Taylor's pointing out is our body has its own surveillance system and natural killer cells are what surveil cancer typically in your body. And when you have NK cell suppression, and I can go out on a limb and say this, I see a lot of patients with breast implants who have NK cell suppression in my practice. So that's the correlation. And so you can have a tumor and people can obviously have NK cell suppression without implants. So there's gonna be other reasons for that. So don't everybody freak out and text me about.
