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Plenary Session

2.52 Malignant Audiobook, PROfound trial, & Literature and Medicine with Dr. Adam Cifu

Plenary Session

Vinay Prasad, MD MPH

Health, Medicine, Policy, Oncology, Science & Medicine

4.7789 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2020

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

This week we have an announcement -- the audiobook of "Malignant: How Bad Policy and Bad Evidence Harm People with Cancer", written and narrated by our host Vinay Prasad, is available now on Amazon, iTunes, and Audible! We also have an in-depth journal club for you on the findings of the PROfound trial as published in a new paper out in the New England Journal of Medicine titled "Olaparib for Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer". Finally, we end the episode with an interview with Dr. Adam Cifu of the University of Chicago on literature, medicine, maintaining a feeling of normalcy and self during COVID-19, and more! Listen to Malignant with a free 30-day trial of Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/B08864KFHW/?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-195112&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_195112_rh_us PROfound: doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa1911440 Crossover: doi.org/10.1093/annonc/mdy116 Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession

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0:00.0

Welcome to Plenary Session.

0:07.0

I'm your host, Dr. Vinay Prasad.

0:10.0

I'm a practicing hematologist, oncologist, and I'm associate professor of medicine.

0:14.0

I'm interested in issues at the intersection of medicine, oncology, and health policy, and that's what you're going to get on this podcast.

0:22.2

Welcome to Season 2.

0:25.3

This week on Plenary Session, I'm back from Mobile Command Unit, and I got a few things for you.

0:30.1

First, the malignant audiobook is out.

0:32.4

It's what you've been asking for.

0:33.6

It's on Audible.

0:34.3

It's on iTunes.

0:35.1

It's on Audible. It's on iTunes. It's on Amazon. It's read by me for a long period of time and edited by

0:39.7

Kiana Klausner, who produces this podcast. You won't want to miss it. Next, I have a COVID Journal

0:45.9

Club, and this is on the profound randomized controlled trial of Olaparib versus Enza or Abbey

0:51.4

investigator's choice that appear in the New England Journal of Medicine. You won't

0:54.4

want to miss this discussion. This takes Journal Club to the next level. And then, I'm joined via Skype

0:59.6

with Dr. Adam Sifu, and we're going to be talking about literature and medicine and COVID and

1:05.8

everything in between. You won't want to miss this. So, stay tuned. But first, a thanks. I want to thank those of you

1:14.7

who've gone online and support this podcast on patreon.com. Patreon subscribers get access to the

1:20.3

slides from lectures I give on plenary session. I also want to thank the hundreds of you who've

1:25.2

gone to the iTunes store and reviewed this podcast. We appreciate that feedback. I also want to thank the hundreds of you who've gone to the iTunes store and reviewed this podcast.

1:28.1

We appreciate that feedback.

1:30.0

I also want to thank the dozens of you who've written reviews.

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