Welcome. I'm Dr. Vinay Prasad. I'm a hematologist, oncologist, and I'm associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. In my professional life, I see patients, I teach trainees, and I do research in health care policy. This is Plenary Session.

Plenary Session is a podcast at the intersection of medicine, oncology, and health policy.

And you're listening to Season 3.

On this week's episode.

I'm joined by Aaron Goodman.

Aaron Goodman is an assistant professor at the University of California, San Diego,

and he's here to talk about hematologic malignancies and transplantation, his specialty.

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I'm back in plenary session, joined via Zoom by Dr. Aaron Goodman.

Aaron Goodman is an assistant professor at the University of California, San Diego.

He's a practicing bone marrow transplant doctor and expert in hematologic malignancies.

Aaron, it's a pleasure to have you on the podcast.

Thanks.

I've been listening for a long time, and it's a pleasure to be on your podcast.

Ah, well, we have teamed up on some stuff recently. We took a close look at this interest in treating

multiple myeloma early. As you know, if treating a cancer is good, treating a pre-cancer

that often doesn't progress to the cancer is even better.

Got to be even better.

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