Plenary Session

Latest Episodes:

5.03 - VPs Grand Rounds Lecture - Evidence Based Medicine - Will it Survive? Jul 13, 2022

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How to think about when and how to do RCTs? What are the limitations to observational studies? Smoking. Parachutes. Dostarlimab. Guarantee Time Bias. Confounding. Multiple Hypothesis testing and more

5.02 - Listener Questions - Cancer & Evidence Philosophy - What this Pod Offers Jul 11, 2022

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I make the case why this podcast should be your go to for Med, Onc & Policy. I describe my philosophy of Evidence, Empiricism, and show how this connects to many oncology studies. I answer a bunch of Listener Questions

5.01 - How To Read Randomized Trials In Cancer Jul 07, 2022

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How to read randomized trials in cancer medicine. Phase 2 vs 3, control arm, crossover, post protocol, censoring (the basics), and how law professors and medical professors are different and why it matters.

Lies and Exaggerations about Kids Vaccines < 5 years Old is Bad Public Health Jun 22, 2022

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Lies and Exaggerations about Kids Vaccine I give examples, and show why they are lies

Enact Trial - Enza vs Active Surveillance in Localized Prostate Cancer Jun 20, 2022

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What happens when you treat people with $168,000 a year medicine when most of them will never need treatment, and all of them don't need treatment now

Kids Vaccine For Under 5 years Old Jun 18, 2022

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I take a deep dive into the data for the mRNA vaccines for kids under 5 years olds

H. Jack West; Lung Cancer; Podcasting; TeleHealth: PACIFIC; ADAURA;CM816: KN189 Jun 18, 2022

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I sit down with H Jack West. City of Hope. Thoracic Oncology and we have a long discussion about trials; staging; PDL1 thresholds; Driver mutations and post protocol care; ADAURA; Adjuvant; & More

QuANTUM - Quizartinib Front Line - Ethics of Global Trials Jun 15, 2022

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I discuss the timeline of Ratify and Quantum. Was this an ethical trial? Is it sufficient to say a trial is ethical because 50% of participants get something?

4.67 Teclistimab for R/R Multiple Myeloma Jun 09, 2022

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The drug has a high response rate and lots of infections, is it active? Yes; Efficacious? ???? I review ASCO2022 updates

4.66 PD1 Ab for MSI H Stage II/ III Rectal Cancer; A 100% CR rate?? Jun 08, 2022

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Are the results from Luis Diaz as good as touted. What trial should they do going forward? A 100% CR rate in Stage II and III rectal cancer??