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Plenary Session

3.42 Overdiagnosis and Cutaneous Melanoma Diagnoses with Dr. Adewole Adamson and Dr. Benjamin Mazer

Plenary Session

Vinay Prasad, MD MPH

Health, Medicine, Policy, Oncology, Science & Medicine

4.7789 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

For today's episode, we sit down with Drs. Ade Adamson of the University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School and Ben Mazer of Johns Hopkins Hospital to discuss their new paper out now in the New England Journal of Medicine titled "The Rapid Rise in Cutaneous Melanoma Diagnoses". It's one of the best papers you'll read all year. Melanoma Diagnoses: doi.org/10.1056/NEJMsb2019760 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.

0:22.9

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

0:27.6

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 back joined by Aday, Adamson, and Ben Mazur.

0:37.3

They're the authors of a new New England journal paper about melanoma,

0:39.8

and you won't want to miss this discussion.

0:43.2

If you like this podcast and want more content, follow me on Twitter at Viprasad MDMPH.

0:49.6

Check out the YouTube channel, Vinayprasad, MDMPH.

0:53.8

Patreon backers will get access to the slides for lectures I give on plenary session.

0:58.4

Want to hear from us?

0:59.6

Email us your question at plenary session podcast at gmail.com.

1:06.5

I'm back in plenary session HQ, joined via Zoom by two all-stars of Twitter and academic medicine and beyond.

1:14.9

I'm joined by Dr. Aday Adamson.

1:17.6

Dr. Adamson is an assistant professor at the Dell Medical School in Austin, Texas.

1:22.3

He's a practicing dermatologist.

1:23.5

I'm joined by friend of the show, Ben Mazur.

1:26.1

You know him well.

1:27.1

He describes himself as a surgical

1:29.1

pathology. What was it? Assistant. What did you call yourself? But he really is a, I'll say,

1:37.0

quasi-faculty member. I'm going to call him a quasi-faculty member because you should be faculty member. That's what I am.

1:40.7

That's what you are. That's what you are. Okay, it's a pleasure to have you both. It's very nice to meet you.

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