Welcome to Plenary Session.

I'm Vinay Prasad. I'm an associate professor with University of California, San Francisco.

I'm a practicing he-mong doctor, and my interests are medicine, oncology, and health policy.

And that's what you're going to get on Plenary Session.

This is season four, hashtag zero COVID.

It's zero COVID because we're not going to talk about COVID.

We're back, oncology, medicine, health policy.

We've got a lot in store for you.

But first, a plug.

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I'm back in plenary session. I'm joined by Dr. George Sledge. George Sledge is professor of medicine at Stanford University. He's well known to many people, I think, who

listen to this podcast. He's a former past president of ASCO. He worked on the faculty of

Indiana University for 30 years. He's been section chief,

division chief here at Stanford University, and he is an extraordinary breast cancer trialist

and somebody who will be well known to the listeners of Planneries session. Dr. Sledge, thank you so much.

A real delight. It's a pleasure to be able to sit down and talk with you my pleasure as well okay good the audio

sounding good so dr sledge we were just talking um you know i i was um i'm really grateful to hear

that you you listen to plenary sessions so regularly regularly wow you know it's the sort of thing

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