3.38 Oncology During COVID-19 & RCTs from Low- vs High-Income Countries with Dr. Christopher Booth

Plenary Session

Vinay Prasad, MD MPH

Health, Medicine, Policy, Oncology, Science & Medicine

4.7 • 789 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

On today's episode we sit down with Dr. Chris Booth of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada to discuss his new paper out now in JAMA Oncology titled "An Analysis of Contemporary Oncology Randomized Clinical Trials From Low/Middle-Income vs High-Income Countries". We also talk about how COVID-19 has affected oncology research. We touch, too, on the topic of evaluating how you spend your time and prioritizing your research. Contemporary Oncology RCTs: doi.org/10.1001/jamaoncol.2020.7478 Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew

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0:00.0	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.
0:23.2	Plenary Session is a podcast at the intersection of medicine, oncology, and health policy.
0:27.5	And you're listening to Season 3.
0:30.7	On this week's episode.
0:33.0	This week on Plenary Session, I'm joined by Dr. Chris Booth.
0:35.9	Chris Booth is friend of the show.
0:37.4	He's one of the few people who's actually hosted this show.
0:39.4	He knows what it's like to be in the hot seat.
0:41.1	And he's joining us from Canada via Zoom.
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1:01.1	Want to hear from us?
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1:08.3	All right, I'm back in plenary session with Dr. Chris Booth, Professor of Medicine at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
1:15.1	Dr. Booth is a card-carrying GI and GU Oncologist, a global health authority, and a friend of the show.
1:21.6	He's done seminal work, of course, on many topics, but those include progression-free survival and the end points of randomized
1:28.5	control trials. Dr. Booth, it's a pleasure to have you back.
1:32.1	Good afternoon, Benai. Thanks for having me. It's wonderful to be back.
1:35.5	Do you have COVID up there in Canada? A little bit of it. A little bit of it. Not as much as you
1:39.7	guys do. It's a cold weather variant, though, but we do have some of it.
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