Boogie is 100% lying about the cancer. There was no misunderstanding or miscommunication with the doctor. He is just a liar. We all know this.
During the livestream, Boogie claims he was diagnosed with Polycythemia Vera by a blood test. First his red blood cell count was high, so they did a follow up blood test to check for hormones.
Boogie claims that the doctors detected a hormone that should only be there if he has Polycythemia Vera cancer. At this point, Boogie claims that he definitively has cancer, although a follow up bone marrow biopsy could be done that would prove he has cancer (even though he claims it is already proven and he has undertaken 2 years of treatment). Boogie is now seeking this biopsy, even though he believes he 100% has cancer, on the "1 in 1000" chance that by some miracle he actually doesn't have cancer. Of course, Boogie also refuses to show any proof of these blood tests as well, so he is already certainly lying.
I thought it was strange that he kept brining up this blood test repeatedly as the proof, but never said what the hormone was. So I went looking for the diagnostic criteria for PV.
The current diagnostic standard for PV starts with detecting high levels of red blood cells in the patient (polycythemia).
The next step, is to do a DNA test on the blood. PV is caused by a specific mutation to the JAK2 gene which plays a role in the growth of blood cells. If this mutation is found, you are presumed to have PV.
It is recommended to follow up with a bone marrow biopsy to check for abnormalities in the stem cells that produce blood cells, but this is not a mandatory requirement for diagnosis.
Boogie claims to have elevated blood hormone levels that are only observed in PV, but these are not in any diagnostic criteria I could find.
But wait a minute, what's that minor criterion at the bottom? Low levels of erythropoietin could be a minor sign of PV? What is this molecule?
Oh, it's a signaling molecule/hormone. It's released by our bodies when our oxygen levels are too low. What does it do?
It increases red blood cell production. Aha! So this is what Boogie was talking about. He has high red blood cell counts, he has high erythropoietin levels, therefore he has PV and he doesn't need the biopsy (forget about the DNA testing. Boogie did).
But wait a minute, what did the diagnostic requirements say again?
Subnormal Serum Erythropoietin Levels. If you have PV, a minor sign that this could be the case is that you have high red blood cell count
DESPITE having low erythropoietin.
If you have high levels of this hormone and high red blood cell levels that means you are just hypoxic! You have secondary polycythemia. It means you are a fat fuck who has sleep apnea and is taking testosterone.
