Plenary Session

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2.35 BONUS! How to Keep Up with the New Information in Medicine Jan 31, 2020

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This BONUS episode is the recording of a lecture given to medical students titled "How to Keep Up with the New Information in Medicine." It's a primer on the steps healthcare professionals need to take in order to keep abreast of the latest medical findings. Vinay's new book, Malignant: www.amazon.com/Malignant-Policy-…cer/dp/1421437635 Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession

2.34 Red Light, Pola for DLBCL, Hem/Onc Question of the Week, & TAILORx with Dr. Ali Khaki Jan 24, 2020

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We have a variety of topics for you this week! We tackle red light therapy, polatuzumab olatuzumab vedotin in relapsed or refractory diffuse large b-cell lymphoma; we have a hematology/oncology question of the week from Dr. Emerson Chen of OHSU; and we sit down with Dr. Ali Khaki of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center to discuss his recent paper critiquing TAILORx. Pola for DLBCL: doi.org/10.1200/JCO.19.00172 Financial COI on Twitter: doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2016.8467 Ignoring Valuable Data: doi.org/10.6004/jnccn.2019.7363 Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession

2.33 Olaparib and POLO & the Classical Fallacies of Cancer Screening with Dr. H Gilbert Welch Jan 15, 2020

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This week we're treating you to a recording of the Grand Rounds lecture on overdiagnosis and cancer screening that Dr. H Gilbert Welch gave at Oregon Health & Science University on October 30, 2019. Before the lecture, we take a moment to reiterate with renewed vigor our distaste for the POLO trial (first discussed in episode 1.64). POLO: doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa1903387 Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession

2.32 BONUS! Clinical Trials Part 1: Thinking Better About Cancer Medicine Jan 10, 2020

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This BONUS lecture was a talk given to the Hematology/Oncology fellows here at Oregon Health & Science University. It's part one of a three-part series on clinical trials, titled "Thinking Better About Cancer Medicine". Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession

2.31 Listener Questions, Responsibility of Reviewers, & Duration of Response with Dr. Bishal Gyawali Jan 07, 2020

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This week we answer a few questions: the first is from Patreon backer, Harry Hong, on Kaplan-Meier curves. The second is from a student at Mount Sinai Medical School who reached out with some ethical questions they had after the ASH annual meeting on the obligations and responsibilities of peer reviewers. Finally, we end the episode with an interview with Dr. Bishal Gyawali of Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada on his new paper out today in the Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network titled "Response Rates and Durations of Response for Biomarker-Based Cancer Drugs in Nonrandomized Versus Randomized Trials". Durations of Response: doi.org/10.6004/jnccn.2019.7345 Vinay's new book, Malignant: www.amazon.com/Malignant-Policy-…cer/dp/1421437635 Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession

2.30 Questions from a Medical Student & Epidemiology with Dr. Ellie Murray Jan 03, 2020

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This week we return to our discussion of going after soft targets vs hard targets, but this time with a focus on how it applies to building a burgeoning career in medicine, in our segment Questions from a Medical Student with Audrey Tran. We end this week's episode with a far-reaching interview with Dr. Ellie Murray (most people know her as Epi Ellie on Twitter and as the co-host of the podcast Casual Inference) on all things epidemiology. Check out Dr. Murray's excellent podcast here: https://casualinfer.libsyn.com/ Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession

2.29 Time from Diagnosis to Treatment in AML and Real-World Data with Dr. Sherrie Aspinall Dec 27, 2019

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This week we wonder incredulously how this abstract from ASH titled "Time from diagnosis to treatment does not affect outcome in intensively treated patients with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia" was selected as one of the top abstracts from the conference. In the second half of the episode we interview Dr. Sherrie Aspinall of the Veterans Administration on how to use real-world data. Her new paper is titled "Use of targeted therapies for advanced renal cell carcinoma in the Veterans Health Administration". Time from diagnosis to treatment in AML: https://ashpublications.org/blood/article-lookup/doi/10.1182/blood-2019-123717 Targeted therapies for advanced RCC: doi.org/10.1002/cam4.2531 Vinay's new book, Malignant: www.amazon.com/Malignant-Policy-…cer/dp/1421437635 Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession

2.28 Trastuzumab in Later Lines of Therapy for HER2+ Breast Cancer, Kaplan-Meier Curves, & Patreon Dec 20, 2019

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We're back in Plenary Session HQ! We have multiple topics for you this week. We cover the use of trastuzumab in later lines of therapy for HER2+ metastatic breast cancer, we take a listener question on Kaplan-Meier curves, and we talk a little about Patreon. Malignant: www.amazon.com/Malignant-Policy-Evidence-People-Cancer/dp/1421437635 Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession

2.27 BONUS! Use of Bone-Modifying Agents Among Medicare Beneficiaries with MM with Dr. Arjun Gupta Dec 12, 2019

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This BONUS episode is an interview with Dr. Arjun Gupta, a second-year hem/onc fellow at Johns Hopkins University, on his new paper out TODAY in JAMA Oncology titled ''Use of Bone-modifying Agents among Medicare Beneficiaries with Multiple Myeloma''. Use of bone-modifying agents: doi.org/10.1001/jamaoncol.2019.5426 Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession

2.26 Questions of the Week: Hematology/Oncology, USMLE Step 2 CK, & a bonus Hematology/Oncology Dec 09, 2019

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This is the last week of pre-recorded episodes -- we'll be back next week with a fresh, hard-hitting monologue. In the meantime, we have three questions of the week for you. Two are inspired by the hematology/oncology boards and are presented by Dr. Sven Olson. Between the two, we have one from Ian Straehely that's inspired by the USMLE Step 2 CK. Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession

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