NANASKARA Today, 4th February, we are observing world cancer day. You might have come across or read about cancer. But the intention of observing this world cancer day is to increase the awareness, take out the misunderstand misinformation, to reduce the skill gaps as well as to easy access to the healthcare. In the world, nearly 14 million, that means 1.4 crore people are diagnosed with cancer every year. 1 in 6 deaths are due to cancer. In a recent survey, nearly two-third of people either come across, suffered or come across with someone who is very close to them with cancer. So, it is our duty to know more about cancer, how we all getting together, uniting, we can beat this cancer, that is the reason we are here and observing World Cancer Day. Today, the cancer team of Kasturba Medical College KMC Hospital, Ambedkar Circle Mangalore are here to briefly talk about the different types of cancers, how we detect them, how can we prevent them and what are the principles of treatment. With us, Myself, I am Dr. Harshav Prasada, periodic hematologist and oncologist. On my left, I have Dr. Prashant, consultant hematologist and hematoconcologist. Dr. Sanyo Disoza, medical oncologist. Dr. Kartik, oncosurgeon. Dr. Harish, oncosurgeon are with us. So, to start, let me ask, in children, we see very rarely some children with cancer. Having said that, whereas in adults, it is much more common. I just want to know, I will ask Dr. Sanyo, what are the types of the cancers you come across in adults. So, commonly, we see in our daily practice, the common cancers, we can divide among most common cancers in males versus most common cancers in females. So, among the males, one of the common cancers is lung cancer and the oral cavity cancer. So, these two are the most common cancers, what we encounter in our place and for that matter in India. And then among ladies, we see one of the commonest cancers is breast cancer. And then there are genital cancers like cervical cancer and also this oral cancers and lung cancers are also one of the part. But commonly among ladies, breast and gynecological cancers are the common. So, that's how it is. Where do you place hematological cancers in a general population and how do they present? The hematological cancers are the blood cancers, we say. It's a group of cancers. When we tell about blood cancer, there are more than 150 subtypes of blood cancers that are described nowadays. They are fairly common. Depending on the type of the blood cancer that we talk about, the incidence varies. Like, you know, we are talking about cancer like multiple myeloma, which is extremely common in our country, especially in the rural areas. It's become very common. Whereas if we talk about some type of lymphomas, they are extremely rare. Sometimes there is something called here is leukemia. In our entire practice of 10 years, 15 years, we may come across one or two patients for that. So, it is difficult to exactly put a number that this many percentage of patients generally develop blood cancer. But rather than that, what I feel is that most important thing a person should do is get an early checkup. In my practice, what I see is there are two sets of people who generally come to us. One are the set of people who are overzealous of diagnosing and cancer. Doctor, I want to see whether there is a cancer in me. So, please do some tests.  Then there is another set of people where they are really suffering from cancer. They have symptoms. They have swellings in their particular parts of the body. Or they are having some gum bleeding, swelling of the gums, swelling in the neck. They are having recurrent fever. But then they are not ready to get examined because they won't want to get tested. Because doctor may tell that I have a cancer. Then what I will do? This is unique to our country. That's what I feel. That the two extremes are very common here. So, most important, as we talk about progress, we will tell the symptoms of the cancer. Somebody who has a symptom, one thing I want to stress upfront. There is no specific symptom or sign for any cancer as such. Just because somebody has a cough, it doesn't become lung cancer. Somebody has bleeding gums, doesn't become a blood cancer. There is nothing that tells that upfront the moment we see a patient, okay, this is cancer. So, people should not feel that, okay, I have this symptom, okay, I have a cancer. But it may be anything. But if you have a symptom, always get it checked with a specialist. Then you will come to know. So, I think with that we will proceed with the symptoms of the cancer. Thank you doctor Prashant. So, bleeding gums, any swelling part of the body. Not a particular symptom. Don't get disheartened or worried immediately. But go and get checked by the specialist doctor and then take it from there. So, that's about some of the hematological cancers per se. Can I ask, Harish is being oncosurgeon. Many of those where you do therapy treatment as a surgery. What are the types of cancers where you see as a first port of call, in the sense they present to you with what symptoms they present to you? Would you please enumerate that? Sir, the common symptoms, signs and symptoms they present a cancer patient is, if you ask me, if a sore which is not healing, like a wound anywhere in the body which is not healing. So, ulcer in oral cavity or ulcer over the skin which is, since long time patient is having that even after taking treatment it is not reducing or bleeding anywhere in the body. Just say if a patient comes with hemoptysis like sputum, cough sputum is there along with that there is some blood. So, that is a worrisome symptom which is there since long time and bleeding per rectum. So, many of the patients, I am not saying as Dr. Prashant told, all bleeding per rectums are not cancerous. But we do see in our practice that many of the patients are treated as piles or something else, hemorrhoids and they have missed the cancerous thing in that. So, what happens? It is better to check anywhere bleeding first to consult the relevant doctor and rule out cancer. Cancer is a small part compared to the non-cancerous things but it is always good to diagnose cancer in early stage. So, other than that bleeding per urethra, so that is also that is while passing urine if the patient is passing blood or unexplained loss of weight. So, somebody who has lost more than 10 kgs in last 6 months without doing anything like he is not doing regular exercise, not on diet, something but still he has lost weight which is not explained by anything. So, they should be worried and something like a patient who is altered bowel habits, somebody who is having diarrhea and somebody who is having constipation for long time which is not matched to his regular habits. So, these altered bowel habits should be aware. So, these are some of the lump in the body like any swelling in the neck or any swelling in the breast. So, if you ask me as Dr. Sanyo told in female the common cancers are breast cancers and common cancers are gynecological cancers. So, a patient who is breast cancer patient who can present with lump in the breast. So, if it is a gynecological patient they present with bleeding per vagina which is may be post specially all these cancers what we see in elderly population or in adults are in elderly population like more than 40 years or 50 years later. So, that is the common cancer. I think you know pediatric cancers are little different from adult cancers. So, these patients specially if the patient present with lump in the breast if the patient presents in the early stage you are asking about surgical aspect. So, if the patient comes in the early stage we first try to diagnose the cancer. So, there are few tests which we have to do on this patient like a mammogram for a breast cancer and a biopsy. If at all it is in the early stage like we call it stage one or stage two as early cancers. If it is in the later stage we will not do surgery immediately. If it is in the early stage we diagnose the cancer and then we will take the patient for surgery. So, there are so many patients like this who present in early stage whom we directly do surgery and there are patients who present in little later stage we may have to give chemotherapy first that is called neo-argument chemotherapy and then do surgery. So, that is how this patient present to us. Dr. Harish has enumerated few symptoms which are very pathognomonic of the features of cancers and he mentioned one thing cancer is one diagnosis whereas there are many differential diagnosis for the symptoms. So, and he as well as Karthik routinely come across patients who have been neglecting these symptoms for a long time and he said when you present early then the treatment will be different and they could do especially if there are lumps or bleeding only small part of the body then they are able to take it out by doing surgery. Going to Dr. Karthik with similar to the presentation the common surgical oncosurgical problems or diagnosis you come across in day to day practice and how do they present which not been enumerated by the Harish. Most of the things have been covered by our doctors now like one of the most common attitude of people about cancer is they think that cancer is painful. So, they do not want to come to the doctor unless there is pain. So, unlike the popular thought where people think that cancer is painful it is not so in the early disease. Let us take it whether oral malignancy of stage one or two or breast cancer of stage one or two even more I can say most of the cancers even liquid cancer like leukemia or lymphoma they are not painful. So, people have this attitude of staying away from the doctor and that is the kind of attitude they have because they do not want to come to hospital.  So, what they should understand is we have to diagnose more and more patients in stage one and two abroad like in European countries or American countries like all we know they are more focused on finding patients in stage one and two and so their prognosis is better the treatment cost is better the treatment duration is better and overall it is a happy attitude towards the disease. But here what is happening in India is people have very negative attitude about cancer and we find more and more patients presenting to us in stage three and stage four that is not good we have to find our ways to find more and more patients in early disease and early stages and we have to be able to treat the disease and one more important aspect or point what I want to put here is like about the nihilistic attitude of the people. They have a very negative attitude about cancer so they have that bad picture of cancer that it is very painful patients have to lose weight to have cancer and so many dark thoughts about cancer that should as a society we should alleviate those factors and we should encourage more and more people to come to us and so that we can treat the people better in stage one and two Thank you Dr. Karthik so once they present to you us with the symptoms what all the test you would do to diagnose this to have cancer so would you please enumerate Dr. Sanyam yeah so the tests which we conduct once we have a suspicion of a cancer in particular patient for whatever complaints they have come to us differs based on which site or organ is affected like for example if I start from above to below for example if someone comes with non-healing ulcer in mouth and there is a swelling or something like that or there is a swelling in the in our neck due to an ulcer inside the mouth then commonly what we do biopsy biopsy or FNA that is fine needle aspiration we call it so we either do a FNA or biopsy of that involved lesion or the abnormal area and then we do a CT scan or MRI scan to see has the disease spread beyond certain limits so that's how we stage that particular cancer for example if I go below still regarding the cancer of the lung so even there once we do a biopsy which is confirmatory of a particular cancer like I would like to say at this point that if someone comes with some X-ray finding of some abnormality in the lung that doesn't mean it is a cancer it may be many other things also so to confirm that it is a cancer we need to do something called as needle test just like what I said either biopsy or FNA to confirm that it is a cancer so once we confirm that it is a cancer for example in the lung and then we have to do something called as CT scan or full body scan is done called as PET scan sometimes in some cancers so these scans are done to know whether the disease has spread to some other parts of the body or whether disease has spread away from the main site of origin of the tumor so that we do the staging I mean stage 1 2 3 or 4 of that particular disease in the same way for example in our digestive system cancers like for example in the stomach or in the intestine cancers in those sites also if at all patient presents is some symptoms suggestive of cancer in either stomach or in the intestine then we do something called as endoscopy either passing a small tube through the mouth or passing a small tube through the anal side to see where is the location of the cancer and then once again like what I said just now to see whether the disease has spread to other parts we need to do a CT scan or a whole body PET scan to see whether the disease has spread to other parts of the body so basically speaking that cancer once we have a suspicion that someone is having a cancer we need to do 2 important things that one is the biopsy and one is the biopsy for the confirmation that it is a cancerous and scans whatever scans be as per the different sites to see whether it has spread to some distant parts of the body or away from the site of origin of the tube so that's how it is thank you Dr. Sanyo once we diagnose or suspect a cancer patients may feel that we are doing a battery of test but it's always important to have a right diagnosis and right staging because the treatment may differ so confirmation of the diagnosis and proper staging is must after diagnosing a cancer so once you break the news of a cancer to patients they will start to question us why did I get cancer did I do anything wrong should I have done anything differently so Dr. Prashant would you like to talk upon that yeah this is very interesting question every person who gets a disease he has a right to ask this question first number one everybody has a right to ask question and especially when a person is being diagnosed with a dreaded disease like cancer definitely he needs an answer why he developed it because if there is something that he can rectify you know to prevent future cancers either in him or in his family members near and dear ones then that becomes extremely crucial so if we see why the cancer comes there are answers for atleast 50 to 70% of the cancers we have an answer especially the modern lifestyle especially bad habits like smoking usage of drugs then alcohol excessive intake of alcohol excessive intake of carbohydrates fatty foods junk foods and especially the fast foods smoked foods you get these kebabs and this junk food where there is a suit on the surface of the food stuff now all these are getting highly carcinogenic chemicals in them and when we consume them just because I have gone and eaten one fish kebab I am not going to get any cancer there but then cancer is always a multifactorial one I am not doing regular exercises I am not doing any weight management I am putting on weight I am not following any healthy diet per se I am eating whatever comes in my way I have habit of smoking I may not be smoking but my friend who is always sitting next to me may be smoking and I am happily smoking whatever he is living that is also enough so the lifestyle everything matters over a period of time these carcinogens they go on attacking the body cells and body has threshold limit to which body can repair itself when the insults go beyond that threshold level body fails the immune system or the surveillance system in the body fails and the normal cells which were otherwise behaving normally turn into cancerous cells and then you know the entire process of cancer starts yes of course in around 20 to 30% of the cancer especially lot of this there is no exact reason it may be some underlying genetic problem which is not in the hands of either parents or in anybody's hands it is just by luck we can say or some of the blood cancer why do they get blood cancer nobody knows except for few of the cancers where pesticides are blamed for or smoking is blamed for otherwise we do not have a true answer for this so it is difficult to tell exactly particular patient you got this cancer because of this particular reason but then we can broadly guess what was the lifestyle of the patient which caused this cancer thank you Dr Prashant Dr Prashant just gave the details of why one would get a cancer especially in adult population during a periodic oncologist I do come across same question from every parents they themselves feel guilty did we do anything wrong for my son or child to get develop this cancer most of the times we do not have a answer as he said nearly one fourth of childhood cancers are known genetic problem but the question comes can we prevent this cancer in children there are various hypothesis why someone develops a cancer in a child but there are no hypothesis how can we prevent it there are quite significant differences between children and adult type of cancers as he mentioned the lifestyle related cancers we do not see in children children is mainly due to some to do the genetics the non-genetics only one fourth of them that when it diagnose cancer in children usually in advanced stage they would have spread by the time we diagnose whereas in adults you would if they come early they would diagnose in earlier stage in children the response to treatment is very good very intense treatment short treatment response is very good and overall survival is very good whereas in adults depending upon the types of cancers etc but overall the response is less than on the childhood cancers so with that note continuing from the lifestyle related issues now we will go to the basic principles of treatment in the early we will discuss about early detection screening and prevention so let me ask to Dr. Sanyu what are the principles of treatment in a diagnosed and confirmed cancer so once we diagnose the cancer and once we do the staging like what we discussed through the relevant scans once we diagnose the cancer at a particular stage then comes the treatment I will just give us overview of how the treatment is done in different cancers in general so there are three main treatments of cancer so one is surgery one is radiation therapy and one is chemotherapy so for any cancers at least one is definitely required we call it modalities of treatment surgery, radiation and chemotherapy so for any cancer at least one modality of the treatment is definitely required most of the cancers either two or three modalities are required like for example some cancers which originate from the blood like lymphomas blood cancers for that only chemotherapy is enough but most other tumors like common cancers like breast where all the three modalities may be required like surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy but this is I am saying is not in all the patients all treatments are required even in for example in breast cancer some patients we may need only surgery and chemotherapy some patients we may need only surgery so different cancers are managed in different ways by different combinations of surgery, chemotherapy radiation therapy but from last decade there has been something new modalities of treatment also with regard to systemic therapy we can say that is called targeted therapy and immunotherapy so this mostly is done for late stages of cancer especially stage 4 what happens is that the mutation in the cells is detected in two patients and we give treatment targeting to that particular mutation or change in the cell so that we call as targeted therapy so this is one new therapy which is a tablet treatment which is a new treatment which has come up in the last decade I would not say in all the cancers but in many cancers it has come up and one more new treatment which has come up in the last decade is immunotherapy which is it is an intravenous injection which is to be given over periodic intervals and these two is in the late stages stage 4 cancers we say what it does is it stimulates the immune system of your own body to act on the cancerous cells so that is how it acts and has been found to be beneficial in many tumor types so that is how we treat cancer and that is how we try to improve the survival of patients with cancer but one important thing during all these treatments is our aim is to give the patient a good quality of life during whatever treatments we choose because apart from increasing the life meaning to say apart from increasing the survival of the patient or one more aim is to improve the quality of life of the patient too because commonly there is a notion in general public that cancer treatments are painful and patient will his health condition will deteriorate his general condition will go down he will not be able to do day to day routines and all that I would like to differ and say that when cancer treatment is given in a proper way all these things do not occur of course sometimes some side effects of chemotherapy can occur but these are all for short duration immediately after surgery there may be some weakness but this is of short duration but overall the aim of first doctors is to give a good quality of life to the patient with whichever cancer treatments we plan for a particular patient thank you right treatment in right way you may get side effects for a short duration and for which you have got medicines for those side effects and as a doctor as a team led by the medical oncologist and surgical oncologist all putting together we all try to give a good quality of life to the patients Dr. Harish would you please tell me what can we screen or detect early detection of cancer in general public early detection is something where we detect cancer in a patient who is having symptom see somebody who is having already some ulcer or lump in the breast or somebody who is having bleeding or rectum or something so where you can present in different stages like stage one so we can treat better so that is how we can detect the patient in early stage depending on whether the patient is having symptom or not so that is called early detection that is done when the patient visits the hospital early or we can also do general population programs so that time we can detect the lesion and do a biopsy or imaging what we have already mentioned that is called early detection another thing called screening screening is something we do in general population like we are doing programs and in a population where they don't have any symptom they don't know there is something in their body but we are trying to detect it it may be cancer so that is how that is what is called screening so we can't screen all the cancers so there are so many cancers but that is because whatever we screen we have to detect early and we have to treat otherwise there is no point detecting something and without giving proper treatment for that so only some cancers are there like breast cancer where we can do a mammogram for screening so oral cavity cancers where we do screening there may be lesions like white lesions or reddish lesions like called leukoplechia erythroplechia or there may be an ulcer during our screening programs so we can take biopsy of those lesions which may be precancerous or under early stage of cancer and lung cancer that low dose CT scan that's what we say it is not practiced in many countries few countries and few areas it's been practiced where detection rate is also high we use low dose CT scan not an x-ray there other than that cervical cancer which is a very important cancer most of the cervical cancer is because of it's PV infection so human papilloma virus is more than 90% of the cause for this cervical cancer so in this situation we can do a simple test called pap smear so which can detect the cancer in the general population and with that we can actually treat the cancer better so all these cancers where a proper test is available to detect a cancer we can detect the cancers in general population and treat them better because of this we know that compared to the previous decade the cervical cancer incidence has come down with proper hygiene and also screening programs many of the centers in India are also doing so that's how we can detect about screenings thank you doctor Karthik would you please tell us what are the risk reduction things one has to do if he is well but he is worried about he may get cancer in the future what he can do to prevent the cancer and second question is what is the role of vaccines this is a very important question because this is also one of the gist of the world cancer day so to understand about how to prevent so prevention is even before the pathology has started doctor Prashant already told that the factor causing cancer is environmental and host factor so environmental factor is like pollution dust whatever the hazards of the present day life which requires the whole society to act and control which is little difficult because you need governance to control at that level to our level what we can do so that is on the host factor so host factor what is responsible from the host to cause cancer so one is these addictions tobacco or alcohol among the most common addictions then the whatever reduces the immunity of a body to fight the early cancer cells so this has to be improved to control cancer so about let me speak briefly about tobacco and alcohol so alcohol potentiates tobacco most commonly and that is how alcohol acts that is why we always tell to prevent alcohol but we always tell to stop smoking so that word we have to understand and after the decades of negligence or decades of denial towards tobacco then in the early 90s America started with the tobacco prevention act from there actually took 3 decades and now America US has reduced the tobacco causing malignancies by 50% so we are in the early phases of this and we have to take it as an individualistic attitude to stop smoking so that is one aspect and then about that aspect of the addictions then about improving the host immunity regular exercises to reduce to maintain a healthy BMI and to improve improve the quality of food items take more and more food which has more of antioxidants and avoid carcinogenic food like charred meat products or salted meat products so the basics of what then the most important aspect is like the second question what you mentioned is about vaccine preventable disease in malignancy also we have some vaccine preventable importantly what we already know and what is very popular is hepatitis B vaccine so hepatitis B is responsible for chronic cirrhosis which in turn causes malignancy of the liver in 2 or 3 decades of span so hepatitis B vaccine prevents malignancy of the liver and we should actively participate in the hepatitis B vaccination and now what we speak recently is like human papillomavirus we have already discussed papillomavirus causing carcinoma cervix and also nowadays oral malignancy is caused by human papillomavirus so popularly we have 2 kinds of vaccine they are quadrivalent or bivalent that is Gardasil or cervix which is the brand which costs around 3000 rupees per shot and when it has to be taken it has to be taken in early teens in 11 to 13 years of age 2 shots has to be taken so that is a good preventive modality in vaccine prevention so when it comes to cancer we have 2 broad vaccine preventable disease that is malignancy of the liver and malignancy caused by human papillomavirus so this is about prevention so we have to be aware we have to be aware and we should come out of the denial mode and get into get into a positive mode and treat the cancer effectively thank you doctor Karthik world cancer day is unique in the sense though it has been observed for the past 20 years since the year 2000 we have in the middle of pandemic you all know this pandemic made almost all citizens aware of their help and about the cleanness, infection control practices and everyone is worried about covid especially so those who are receiving treatment for cancer are their relatives so I just want to ask doctor Prashan how covid has affected the cancer care and what are the problems extra they will face because of the covid so it is very important nowadays because whatever we are seeing covid does not seem to be like disappearing very soon it is going to be with us for quite some time since last one year now we have a large body of data what happens for a cancer patient when he develops covid infection now we clearly know just like any other infection a cancer patient has a defective immunity that is why on the first place he has developed a cancer so with that defective immunity any infection will increase the chance of increased morbidity that is more sickness and also the chance of dying because of the infection same way covid also the data is around cancer patients are the risk is almost 2 to 2.5 times more in cancer patients the covid death rate rather than normal population now the other important aspect is you know because of this covid pandemic we were forced to modify all our chemotherapy you know lot of the patients received those reductions in the chemotherapy thereby there may be certain you know compromise on the overall survival of the patient because of the cancer but then you know if you had given the full dose there was a chance that patient would have died because of covid there was an immediate death so to prevent the immediate death there has been certain measures that are taken which may be troublesome for the long term the next thing that we are now in the future we are looking at is invariably just like any other normal population the patients who have been you know recovered of the covid just like patients who have otherwise you know recovered of malaria or typhoid or dengue fever over a period of time they can develop cancer not that covid is causing cancer invariably they would have even without developed cancer now the patient who had covid infection comes with the cancer now what happens is that with the covid they would have had end organ damages to the lungs to the liver or kidneys now it is going to be a big challenge for us to you know formulate the right treatment for these patients because we know that all our drugs we have some amount of side effects so there is a chance that this end organ damages may trouble the patient so that is why it is extremely crucial for any point of view we are not talking just about cancer prevention per se whether it is heart disease or lung disease or whatever disease that we talk of it is extremely important to prevent covid infection so whatever government is telling we just have to sincerely follow because the politicians are not telling it it is the scientific body analyzing the situation and giving guidelines to the government and government is a mouthpiece for the scientific body so we have to follow that other common question that is asked by lot of our patients is that you know can we receive a covid shot you know vaccine you know patients who have been treated of cancer earlier or those who are having active cancer also you know if they get an opportunity to get covid vaccine they should get it because there is no risk in taking covid vaccine because it is a killed vaccine it is not a live virus vaccine so there is no harm in the patient only thing is that effectiveness of the covid vaccine may be slightly on the lower side in patients who are having active cancer or those who have been treated for cancer but if given a chance everybody should get a covid vaccine that is what I would talk about covid thank you doctor prashant every year on the world cancer day the union of international cancer association they come up with a theme for the past 3 years the theme is I am I will the very purpose of today's discussions answering the questions is to make all of us united in fighting against a cancer remove all the miss and misinformation easy to get access and make it affordable as well today we touched upon the basics of common presentation of cancer early diagnosis detail of the basic of principles prevention screening and also on covid and cancer with that note I would like to conclude today's discussion thanks doctor prashant doctor sanjo disoja doctor harish doctor karthik thank you


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So right now we are on the Shopify website, we're at Shopify.com and all we're going to do here is we're going to click to get our free trial started. So we're going to click on start free trial and then Shopify is going to ask us a few questions. Honestly, you don't need to worry about this. You can easily just skip all. This doesn't matter. This part though does. So where are you going to be selling? In my case, I'm going to be selling in the US. So let's click on next and then it's asking me to create a Shopify ID. So here you can sign in with any method you prefer. All right. So I signed up using my email and now it's doing its thing and it's actually creating and building your own store. And there we go. All right. So this is the first thing that you're going to see once you create your store. As you can see, it's super easy to get started. Right now we're pretty much done. So here you can see that our free trial just started and our trial is going to end August 11th. Right now it's August 7th. So that gives us a four day free trial where we don't have to pay absolutely anything. Now as you can see up here, you have the extend your trial for just a dollar a month. This is what I was telling you earlier where once you select the plan, then you do have to pay one dollar each month for the next three months. My suggestion, don't do this until you have your store up and running or honestly until your free trial is up, try to extend this as much as possible so that way you can get the most time that you can without having to pay anything. So in this case, we're actually going to start a plan on August 11th. Now really quick, I do want to go over the prices. So that way you all have an idea of how much this is going to cost you after your three month plan. So let's just quickly go and select the plan. Again, we're not going to select it now. So these are the different tiers for the basic. It's $29 a month. Then for the Shopify level, it's going to be $79 a month. And then for the advanced, it's going to be $299 a month. Now of course these all say one dollar because you're going to have a $1 trial for the next three months. But then after those three months, these are the prices that are going to kick in. All right. So now back to the home. We have a little setup guide that Shopify provides for us in order to get our store up and running. Now, the first thing it's telling us to do is to add a product. But what exactly are we going to add? We don't have any products to add. We don't even know what our drop shipping store is going to be based on. Are we going to do a general store or are we going to do a niche store? What's the difference? Well, a general store, you're going to be selling a little bit of everything. So you can sell anything from phone chargers to the slushie cup. While with a niche store, you're going to focus on a particular niche or category. So skateboarding, anime, fitness, whatever category you decide on. General stores are awesome to be able to test out different products. Now between the two, my personal recommendation is start off with a general store. In a general store, you can really add anything that you want and not have to worry about anything being out of place. Since it is a general store, you're pretty much opening something like a target online. So you're going to be able to sell whatever you want. This is perfect. So that way you can start testing out different products and see what actually works and what actually sells. If you notice that a certain product is doing really well, then you can go ahead and take that product and you can open up when you store with it. You can open up either a one product store, which this store would focus directly on that product or you can open up a store that's dedicated to that product's particular niche. So my personal recommendation again is to start off with a general store. So what we're going to do now is we're actually going to start doing some product research. I'm going to show you a few different methods in order to find some best selling products. Some of these can start with a couple bucks while the others are completely free. So product research, how do we conduct proper product research and how do we find products that are actually trending and people are looking for? Well, one of the easiest and cheapest methods to do this is by using TikTok. Everyone is on TikTok and everyone is trying to sell on TikTok and it's working.  So the first thing that you need to do is head on over to tiktok.com and then in the search part, look up hashtag tiktok, maybe buy it. Once you do that, you're going to be prompted with tons of different videos all with pretty much drop shipped products. So here we did just that. And as you can see, pretty much everything that you scroll down are all going to be different people trying to sell their products. Now, the point of doing this is to find products that people are actually interested in. So look for videos that have high views. Look for videos that have high likes and high engagement. People commenting on them, making positive remarks. Also, another important thing is look for videos that are recent. Don't look for anything that's more than two months old, let's say. So as I'm scrolling through TikTok, I'm looking for videos that meet the requirements that I mentioned earlier. High engagement and recently posted. So as I'm scrolling, I find this one that was posted at the beginning of July, not that long ago, it's been about a month. This seems to be a jewelry cleaner. So this is exactly that it is a ultrasonic jewelry cleaner. It uses UV light and you really don't have to do anything in order to actually clean your jewelry. So right there, we have both our WAF factor, as well as the value it adds to the customer. The WAF factor is the fact that you don't really have to do much and it's actually going to clean your jewelry for you. Then the value is the fact that you don't really have to do much. You can literally just sit the piece of jewelry in there and it's going to get cleaned. Now, this seems like a pretty good product for us to sell. It has 11.6 million views, which is an insane amount. And it has over a thousand comments, which is not bad. Looks cool. I need this perfect gift. I have the machine. It works well. I use it to clean my rings, necklace, and eyeglasses. This to me is enough proof that it works. So now what we need to do is we need to find this actual product. Now this is actually fairly easy. It's pretty quick and pretty simple to be able to track down the suppliers from our competitors. Check this out. So the first thing we're going to do is we're going to click on the profile. So we're going to go to the Skyline brand TikTok page. Then, oh, there we have, well, actually, you know what? As you can see, that's pretty much all we focus on. So these people probably have a one product store. So then we have Skyline brand Co. This is their link in their bio. Let's go ahead and click on that. And sure enough, it takes us to the CleanPod 360, selling at $23.99 down from $33.99. And as you can see, yep, that's pretty much all it is. This is a one product store, and all they're selling is this ultrasonic cleaner. Now for the fun part, let's go ahead and track down their supplier. So for this, all we have to do is simply look at the image, hover over, right click, and search image with Google. Then it might ask us to highlight the image that we want. So then we're just going to click, drag and drop over here. And then this little panel on the side is going to open up with a bunch of different suggestions that are related to that same image. So all we have to do is scroll down. And sure enough, the first link here is on AliExpress. You can get it for $10.11. That's not US dollars. Let's go ahead and change that, Colombian pesos. There you go, $7.24, even better. All right, so here we have the ultrasonic cleaner. We can get it for $7.24 with free shipping. And it is delivered by August 25th. So it's about two weeks shipping. That's not bad. We always want to look for products that ship fairly quickly and get to your customers at least in two weeks. We want to try to avoid products that take over a month to ship. All right, so now we have one example of a product that we can sell. At this point, typically we would end up just going back over to our Shopify page, clicking at a product and filling all of this out manually. Now, here's a different way that we can do this. That's going to stick to our zero to $3 budget and is also going to give us a lot more options for products to sell. So for this, all we have to do is go ahead and click on the search bar and click on apps. Once we click on apps, we're going to look for auto DS. And then we're going to go ahead and install the auto DS dropshipping products application. So here all we have to do is click on install. And for this, you are going to have a trial and the trial is only going to cost you $1. Then we're going to choose the account that we want to do this with. I had two accounts, so I'm just going to choose the one that I just created. All right, so then it's going to ask us to actually install the app. All we have to do here is click on install once again and then it's going to take us to the auto DS marketplace. Once we're on here, we're pretty much done. The app has been installed and we're ready to use it. Now let me show you a couple of other ways that you can do product research that are going to blow all of the other ways out of the water. So for one, we have the winning product section. We can go ahead and click on this. And these are all proven winning products that have been trending and proven to sell in the past. Here we have the option to look through tons of different products that all for one, add value to a customer's life and two, have a well factor. Now the other option that we have over at auto DS is on the marketplace. So once you click into the marketplace, you can go ahead and select the supplier as auto DS suppliers. These are going to have some of the fastest shipping that you're going to find. So here we can scroll down. And as you can see, a lot of these actually have two to four business days for shipping. And that's for it to get to your customer, not for the supplier to actually send out the item. That's pretty quick. And trust me, your customers are going to love that. So looking through the marketplace, I found this particular product, a cute cartoon baby bath cap. So this has both a well factor as well as adding value to your customer's life as well. Here, the well factor is the ease of use when it comes to showering your child. Then the value is aside from the ease of use, the fact that you can control where the water is so you don't have to get soap and water in your kid's eyes. So let's go ahead and click into it. And once it opens up, we have a few different options. We have the different variations and how much the item costs. So here you can see it costs $11.36 and it has a $6 shipping fee. Shipping and processing times, six to nine business days, not bad. So these are a few different ways that you can conduct proper product research. These are also two different suppliers that you can use in your drop shopping journey to find some best selling products that are actually quality. So now we actually need to get this product to our store. So we can do it the manual way, which I showed you earlier where you need to copy everything over. Or in this case, since we're using auto DS, auto DS is going to streamline the entire process for you. Auto DS will streamline the entire importing process, the order fulfillment process, and as you can see, even the product research process. So here all we have to do is simply click on import draft. Now once we do that, it's gonna be automatically uploaded to our draft section. So let's go ahead and click on our draft section here. And you can see here our cute cartoon baby bath cap. Now here on this page, we can do everything that we need to do in order to update our listing and update our product page. So let's go ahead and click to edit. Now as far as the title, you can see we have the cute cartoon baby bath cap and it's super long and it's not very pleasurable to read. It's too long and it's horrible. So one of the best things that we can do here is actually update the title to something that's shorter and maybe a bit more descriptive, maybe even a little bit more fun. Now we have a couple of ways to do this. We can either do this ourselves or we can go to chat GBT and ask chat GBT to give us a better title. But instead of doing that, we're gonna do everything from this same screen. So let's go ahead and optimize title with AI. So once we're on here, we're gonna choose a tone. In this case, because of the type of product that it is, I wanna make it sound a bit more funny or a bit more fun and our temperature either creative or precise, I just like to leave it at balanced. Now at the same time, we are gonna need a description. So I'm gonna do both the title as well as the description. Now for the title, we already have it a bit more funny. For the description, we're gonna keep the same thing, keep it a bit funny. And for the temperature balanced. So this is gonna cost us a total of six credits. As you can see, we have 12 credits so we're good. Now let's AI right. So after a bit of thinking, it's putting everything together. And now we have our title, the magical unicorn shower gear, baby's bath time adventure kit. It's not that bad. Then it gives us the product title I believe this was the original one. And our description. So introducing adorable and hilarious cute cartoon baby bath caps. These caps are not your ordinary bath accessories. They are specially designed to make bath time a fun and entertaining experience for both babies and parents. All right, this sounds pretty good. Gives us the brand name, the origin. This is actually really good right here. Check this out. Brand name, he on near whatever. But then it even added, don't ask us how to pronounce it. We have no idea either. That's actually really good. We don't necessarily need that though. So we can go ahead and take that off. Then here, yes, it's made in China, but don't worry. It's not made from cheap plastic toys. It's not bad at all. That's actually pretty good. I like that. And then it gives us a bit more information down here. If you want to read all of this, all you have to do is click on pause and read it. But this is too much for me to read right now. But overall, it does sound pretty good. Any adjustments that we have to do, we can just make them through here directly. Now once we're ready, all we have to do is click on save. So once we save it, then we have here the option to add it to any collections if we want to. We also have some tags so we can keep track of the sales and some more information on the product itself through our Autodesh dashboard. Then we have the shipping methods. Typically here, the best option to keep it is at cheapest with tracking because it'll be the cheapest option to ship and you'll still be able to give your customers tracking information. If you choose fastest, it could be pretty expensive. And if you choose cheapest, more than likely you're not going to get tracking. So this option is the best one. Then you have the country where it's located and the brand which we edited using AI. And we have our variants. So we have the different kinds of colors. Here we can set our prices. So here all we have to do is select everything at once and then click on edit. Now here we have a few options. You can change the fee percentage, which is the amount that you're going to get charged in fees for selling these different products. That really varies depending on the platform that you're selling on. So we're not really going to go anywhere on that. The default quantity, we're not going to change that either because AutoDS is going to keep track of our quantity versus the quantity that our suppliers have. So when our suppliers are low in quantity, then that's also going to match ours. Our profit through a dollar amount. So if we want to make $25 on each product, here all we have to do is do 25 and $25 will be added to the price of each and every variant. Now that's not really beneficial because some variants can cost a bit more than others. So it's not really going to add up. Of course, depending on the product that you're selling, it could work. Now the profit percentage, this is what I like to do. Here I like to do a profit percentage. So here we can increase our profit through a certain percentage. So all of the different variants that we have will be increased by this percentage. Let's say for this case, we're doing 130% or you can set a sell price where everything is going to be the same price. But we did a profit percentage. So let's go ahead and update. And as you can see, our prices went up to $27 and 25 cents for these and $27 and three cents for these. Now, if you want to see the difference in price, all you have to do is click on edit and you see that we're purchasing it for $11 and 36 cents. And we're selling it for $27 and 25 cents. Here we can individually change the profit percentage as well. So maybe we want to lower it. Maybe we want to do 120%. It's going to bring down the price to $26 and seven cents with our total profit being $13 and 93 cents. Now I'm going to keep it the way it was before. Then we have the images tab where we also have an image editor and the item specifications. So I think so far it looks good. I think this is going to be pretty much ready to go live on our website. So all we have to do now is click on save and import. Then it's going to go live on our site within minutes. All right, so let's go ahead and check out the progress. Let's go ahead and click on back over to our Shopify store. And as you can see, it actually automatically updated. Now we have our magical unicorn shower gear. We have dirty in stock with four different variants. All right, so let's click into this and let's see actually what it looks like. So what's it going to look like in our store? So here all we have to do is click on more actions and click on preview. And this is what it looks like. So we have my store home catalog contact and we have the magical unicorn shower gear and we have our product name, the different variants, our images and our product description. It's not that bad. It actually does not look too bad. It's pretty basic right now because we haven't really done too much to it. So now let's go ahead and actually start changing a couple of things so that way it looks better. All right, so now we're back over to our Shopify dashboard and all we're going to do is click on our online store down here. Once we're on this page, we can see our theme. So currently we have the DOM theme and if you scroll down a bit more then you have a few free themes. Now these are all customizable and you can change the colors, items, the descriptions, whatever you need. On top of these, there are some other paid ones but you don't really need those. You can really get away with using the free ones because these are more than enough for what you need. And realistically speaking, they look pretty good. So my personal favorite is actually the refresh. So let's go ahead and add that. And then once it finishes installing we're going to be able to publish it or customize it. All right, so now it's finished installing. So I'm going to go ahead and click on customize. So right now our concern isn't necessarily the homepage. This is something that we will eventually have to actually update and make it look nice. But right now we're focusing particularly on our product page. So up here where it says homepage let's go ahead and change that over to where it says products and let's click on default product. So this is what every single one of our pages is going to look like on our store. So you're going to have the my store, the home, the catalog contact, your little announcement bar and all of the different details for the product. Now here we don't have to do too much. We can make it basic as long as everything looks clean and professional, we're good. So our title looks good already. Our description looks good. It is a big block of text. So we might want to break that up. But before we do that let's go ahead and actually make it look a bit more coherent and let's just make the product page look a little bit better. All we're going to do simply here is tweak the color scheme. Now if you're not very good at matching colors like me then Shopify actually makes it pretty easy for you to be able to change the different colors so that way everything matches. So here what we have to do is simply click on a section that we want. So I'm just going to click on the header over here and you're going to get this menu bar on the side. Scroll down a little bit and then you're going to see the color. You're going to see the color scheme and the menu color scheme. Here we can go ahead and change it to any one of these which makes it a bit easier or we can customize them. So here all I'm simply going to do is click on scheme number two because it kind of just makes everything a bit more bright. I'm going to do the same thing for the second option. Now where we have the actual product it's a little bit darker than the top part which is totally okay. I'm going to keep it that way. This announcement bar up here the color matches. It looks good. Now if we scroll down this right here doesn't really match. So let's go ahead and change this as well. I'm going to change this to color scheme number two along with the footer footer. I'm also going to change to the color scheme number two. So the only color that we're going to leave right here is going to be on our announcement bar the background of our product page and our buttons. Aside from that everything should be fairly straightforward and it looks pretty clean. Now we have an announcement bar and then we have a my store which we need to change. Obviously if somebody jumps into our product page and they see this they're not really going to feel too comfortable or too confident making a purchase because all they're going to see is welcome to our store and my store. So let's rename this. So in order to change my store we actually have to change the name of our store. Now I kind of like magical unicorn shower gear even though this is a hippo. So we might want to change this to magical hippo shower gear let's say or just magical shower gear as an overall store name. So let's go ahead and save this really fast. So what we're going to do right now is actually exit out of this. So let's get out of the editor and on the search bar let's look up store name. So you can see the store details over here and the store name right now is just basically my store. Let's go ahead and click on edit and we can go ahead and change this now. So we're going to change this to magical shower gear then click on save. Now if you go back to our product page which we have here already as a preview and refresh it. So let's go ahead and actually go back to our online store. Let's check out the theme again on the refresh and let's go back to customize. We're going to see magical shower gear change this back over to the products. So we have magical shower gear then we have our home, the catalog and the contact. These we can also get rid of because we don't really need any of these currently since we don't have more products and we don't really have a contact information button here. So in order to change this menu right here all we simply have to do is click on this and where it says main menu just click on change and change menu. Now I'm going to show you what that does but this isn't what we're going to do. I'm just going to give you an example so that way you know for your own reference. So you click on that and it's going to give you your footer menu which is typically what goes down here where we add our different types of pages. So we can have our return policy page or our shipping policy page down here which is typically what goes in a footer menu, right? But right now we're focusing on our main menu. So here we can go ahead and create a menu and it's actually going to take us to another page under the navigations tab under our online store where we're going to have the option to create a brand new menu. So here we can name our menu and add different menu items to it or different links that will point to different parts of our website. But we're not going to do that because I decided this is going to be a one product shop and we're going to specifically focus on this bath time adventure kit. So what we're going to do now is actually I made the decision as I was making the store to make this currently into a one product store. Of course, right now we're working with a draft. So we're going to build this up right now and then what we're going to do afterwards is we're going to fine tune it. So just keep sticking with me here. So right now this page is going to be specific to this bath time adventure kit. Now of course I'm pretty sure you've noticed by now this isn't a full on kit but again we're in the draft stage right now and we are going to be fine tuning it as we go. So the first thing that we're going to do is we're going to click up here and we're going to get rid of this menu because we don't really need our customers to go to the home, to the catalog or honestly even to contact us. If they want to contact us then they can easily just send us an email which for reference would also be part of the footer menu. So let's go ahead and get rid of this menu and all we have to do here is click on change and simply remove menu. As you can see now we just have the magical shower gear along with product page. That's it no more menu. Now as for the banner up here here we always want to have some sort of announcement or something that gives our customers a bit of confidence or even a bit of pressure in order to have them make a purchase. What do I mean by pressure? I mean tell them that we have a sale going on or everything is currently 10% off, 20% off for the next week. So that way they start to think that if they don't make the purchase now they can miss out on this and have to pay more later on down the line. So for the announcement bar if we click onto it you're not going to have any options to be able to change anything. You're going to have the actual options for the announcement bar. So all we have to do is click on back and then here under header you see the announcement bar and then it gives us the text. So all we have to do is click on here and write something along the lines of free shipping on all orders, products currently 10% off. That's it. That's all we have to do on there and just make a quick little announcement or even then you don't have to put that you can just put welcome to magical shower gear or whatever your store name is. All right, so once we have that we pretty much have everything ready. Now we just need to start fine tuning. So let's go ahead and click on save and I'm going to click on publish. So since we have the other theme installed the one that's by default the Dawn theme once we publish it'll replace the Dawn theme with the one that we edited which is the refresh. So let's click on publish on that and then now let's see what our store actually looks like. So let's click on these three dots and click on preview. As you can see, there's no menu bar down here but we're not going to be navigating people to this page. We're actually going to be navigating them directly to here. So we have a product, we have the different color scheme that we chose our announcement bar, no menu bar and that's pretty much it. It's pretty straightforward, straight to the point and it looks pretty clean. Of course, if you have more information if you have more images that you want to add you can always add everything here in the description. Now let's start a little bit of the fine tuning on here because right now it's not fully exactly the way that we need it to be or optimized. So magical unicorn shower gear. Let's go ahead and change this and just actually change this to hippo shower gear. Baby's bath time adventure kit. This isn't necessarily an adventure kit. So let's go ahead and change this right here and put shower cup. So now we're going to have to do the same thing on the description. So my suggestion is to just go ahead and read over your entire description and make any necessary changes. Now once your edits are done to the description as well as the title, then you need to save it and then we're going to go ahead and scroll down to our different variations. So now let's go ahead and select everything and let's click on bulk edit. Now once we click on bulk edit, what we're going to do here is we're going to set a compare to price. So it's going to look like everything is on sale. When realistically speaking, it's not. That was our original price. But again, this is consumer psychology. When a customer thinks that something is on sale they're going to feel a bit more pressured to make the purchase right now. So once we're in here you're going to see a few different options. None of these really have anything to do with prices. So let's click on columns. Let's take off this. Let's take off all the bulk and let's leave the price as well as the compare at price. So here we have our different prices, $27.03 and $27.25. Now to make things easier let's just go ahead and leave everything at $27.99. Now of course you can do all of this through the AutoDS app but I'm also showing you the option to doing it directly on the Shopify app because every once in a while you're going to have to switch and either make edits through the Shopify app or through the AutoDS app. And if you're not using AutoDS then that's not really going to be too relevant for you. So here we have everything at $27.99 and now let's find out what $27.99 is plus 10% which is what we're going to be discounting it from. So the compare price is going to be $30.78 which doesn't look too good so let's just go ahead and leave it at $30.99 do that all the way down and click on save. All right so let's run back over to our product page and now it should show that it looks like it's on sale. So it's on sale for $27.99 down from $30.99. Also we have everything updated the magical Hippo shower gear, baby's bath time shower cup, magical shower gear, free shipping on all orders. So there's one last thing that we need to do here to make this a bit more trustworthy and make it just pop out a little bit more and that's adding a logo. Now the easiest way that you can do this is by simply going over to Canva, click on create design and create a logo. Then you're going to come to this page and here just click on over where it says apps and we're going to look for this featured text to image. Click on open styles. Right now we're just going to leave this at none and we're going to make a description of what we want. So here all we have to do now is simply tell Canva what we want. So I want a line art logo of a Hippo in a bathtub with a shower cap. Let's see what it comes up with in this case. All right, so a few of these, maybe this one, this one looks all right. Definitely not that one and not that one. So I don't really like any of these. So let's go ahead and create again. All right, so once again, this one, this one looks all right, actually it's not too bad. So let's changes. Okay, so I actually ended up searching up magical Hippo line art and this is one that came out that I actually kind of like. So I'm going to go with this one. Now I'm not going to make it too big. So you have to make it a little bit smaller here and now I'm just going to add the text. So I want to add the name. So let's go with something like this and here I'm going to change this part to magical. Get rid of that part. Now I'm going to get rid of the top part, shower. Okay, so I'm going to keep it simple and I'm just going to name it magical Hippo shower. Now this is implying that it's a Hippo. So let's just go with this. Okay, so now we're back over to the editor on Shopify and we're going to add our logo. So simply click on our header and here you can see edit your logo in theme settings. So we're going to click on theme settings and then it's going to ask us to upload our logo. So I'm going to go ahead and select an image. Once it's uploaded, click done and now it should show up on the top. Magical Hippo shower. Let's go back to the product page and there we go, magical Hippo shower. So as you can see, it actually replaced the entire name with the logo. So now all we have to do is simply click on save. Let's refresh our product page and there we have it. There we have our magical Hippo shower logo. I really like that actually. I think that looks pretty good. So at this point, our store is pretty much ready to start making some sales and start making some money. Now, one thing we need to do is since we have our own store and our own website we need to create traffic. We need to bring in our own traffic and create some hyper on our product. There's a few different ways to do this and of course this is actually where a little bit of a budget can help you out. So if you have a few extra bucks you can always run something like Facebook ads or you can order the product itself and start making some videos to post on TikTok. Aside from that one free way that you're able to start marketing this product is by simply doing something like creating a blog. So create a blog, talk about some problems about showering your kids and how this particular product can be the solution to it. On your blog, simply just link this product and start driving traffic that way. Then after you start making some sales and start getting some money in then you can actually start increasing your budget for marketing and start running some actual ads on Facebook to be able to bring in more sales. Now once you do start to get your first sale or two then if you're sourcing your product from a supplier like let's say AliExpress then you can do everything manually and place your order directly with your supplier and have that item sent to your customer. Now that's perfectly fine but it can start to take some time if you're doing everything manually. If you start to get in more orders if you start to get in maybe 20, 30 different orders then at that point it's really gonna take a long time. So this is one out of the yes kicks in again and can automate the entire thing for you. It makes two or three hours of just straight work into maybe 10 minutes. So whenever you get your first order AutoDS is gonna automate it for you. You're gonna have two options for this. For one you can do automatic orders where AutoDS is gonna log in to your supplier's account and make the purchase on your behalf using your credit card details. But if you're using the AutoDS marketplace or the winning product section and you're importing your products from there then in this case what it's gonna do is use fulfilled by AutoDS where instead of using your account details and your banking details it's gonna make the purchase using the AutoDS account details and it's gonna use a balance that you top up. Once you get your first order all you have to do is simply click on orders over here and of course this isn't from the store this is from a few different stores that I have because we haven't gotten any orders yet on our magical hiphol store but here you can see all of the different options. So as you can see all these different products have already been delivered while this one is currently pending AutoDS is about to actually place the order for this. This one itself has been ordered and is currently waiting for the shipper to actually ship it and provide us with a tracking number. Once it does that this will automatically switch over to shipped and that's how you can get started drop shipping for $0 or at the very least $1 or $2.00. Now remember this video was the bare basics. This is everything that you need just to get started. If you want to keep scaling your business if you wanna keep growing if you wanna keep making more profits then make sure you hit that subscribe button so you don't miss out on some of the best tips and tricks to help you actually scale your business. If you made it this far I wanna give you a huge thank you. It truly means a lot that you watch the entire video and I really hope that I provided some value and some helpful information to you. If you wanna get started with Shopify and you want to trial for just $1 for the next three months just check out the description down below. I'm gonna have a link to it down there. Once again, huge thank you to everyone for watching. My name is Mario with AutoDS and catch you all next time.