Cancer Doctors: The New Science That Can Reverse Cancer

Everyone knows someone who has been touched by cancer — a parent, a friend, a colleague. Maybe it's even you. And for most of us, the story we've inherited about cancer is this: it's an older person's disease, something that happens to people who didn't take care of themselves, something that — if you do the right things — you can largely avoid. But that story is fracturing. In November 2024, James Van Der Beek announced that he had been privately battling stage III colorectal cancer. He was forty-six when he was diagnosed. He'd been eating organic, doing cold plunges, exercising — and had no idea anything was wrong until a change in his bowel habits made him finally ask for a colonoscopy. He fought for over two years. In December 2025, he appeared on the Today show and said he felt good. Six weeks later, he was gone. And his story is not the exception. Chadwick Boseman passed away at forty-three. Kate Middleton was diagnosed at forty-two. Just a couple of months ago, Tatiana Schlossberg — JFK's granddaughter — died at thirty-five. The numbers behind these stories are staggering. From 1990 to 2019, early-onset cancer rates rose nearly eighty percent globally. One in two people will receive a cancer diagnosis in their lifetime. This isn't a distant threat — it's the most personal health reality of our time. So what is actually happening? How much of this is lifestyle, and how much is just bad luck? In this episode, we go all the way into it with two of the most respected doctors you'll find anywhere on this topic. Dr. William Li is one of the world's leading cancer researchers. He helped develop over forty treatments that are actively changing outcomes for patients right now. He has also watched someone he loves face a stage IV diagnosis and be told by her doctor there was nothing left to do. He didn't accept that. She is alive today because of it. Dr. Dawn Mussallem spent over two decades as an integrative oncologist at Mayo Clinic. She has sat with hundreds of people at every stage of this disease. She has also been one of them. In her mid-twenties, three months into medical school, she was diagnosed with stage IV cancer and given months to live. That was twenty-five years ago, and she is still here, healed. If there are two people on earth who can tell you what you actually need to know about cancer, it's the two people in this conversation. Chapters: 0:00 - Intro 2:17 - The Nine 3:35 - Why Young People Are Getting Cancer 11:30 - Cancer is Mostly Lifestyle (Not Genes) 1:08:01 - Stage Four Cancer Can Be Reversed 1:40:38 - Screening for Cancer Is Critical Join Our Newsletter (The Nine): https://mightypursuit.com/thenine Mighty Pursuit Links: Website: https://www.mightypursuit.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mightypursuit/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mightypursuit/ X: https://x.com/MightyPursuit Dr. William Li Links: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drwilliamli/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/drwilliamli Dr. Dawn Mussallem Links: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drdawnmussallem/ For business inquiries: hello@mightypursuit.com