4.37 MEMOIR & The Emperor Has No Clothes (a Critique of Cancer Care) with Dr. Christopher Booth

Plenary Session

Vinay Prasad, MD MPH

Health, Medicine, Policy, Oncology, Science & Medicine

4.7 • 789 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Today we have a short discussion for you of the MEMOIR study, published in The Lancet Oncology: "Effect of immunotherapy time-of-day infusion on overall survival among patients with advanced melanoma in the USA (MEMOIR): a propensity score-matched analysis of a single-centre, longitudinal study". We also have a special treat for you: a lecture Dr. Chris Booth of Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada recently gave titled "The Emperor Has No Clothes", a critique of the current state of cancer care. MEMOIR: doi.org/10.1016/S1470-2045(21)00546-5 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 to Season 4 of Plenary Session.
0:09.1	I'm Dr. Vinay Prasad. I'm an associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics, and I'm a practicing he-monged doc here at UCSF.
0:15.6	If you like this podcast, follow us on Twitter.
0:18.8	Email us at plenary session podcast at gmail.com, and you can back us
0:23.5	at patreon.com.
0:28.1	And with that, let's start the show.
0:31.9	On this week's episode, we have a real treat. I have exclusive content. It's a lecture by Dr. Christopher Booth,
0:38.6	professor of oncology, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. This is a lecture
0:43.8	that Booth is given. It's gotten rave reviews. And he, through an exclusive licensing
0:48.8	agreement with plenary session, has made this content available to the plenary session audience.
0:53.1	You know you're going to love this.
0:55.9	Stay tuned for that lecture.
1:00.8	But first, I'm going to talk a few minutes about a little paper that came out of Lancet Oncology.
1:01.2	You've been bugging me to talk about this.
1:02.8	I haven't had a chance to get into my stock and trade oncology in a while.
1:06.3	It's called the Memoir Study, a propensity score match analysis of a single longitudinal study looking at whether
1:11.7	or not immunotherapy works better if you give it bright and early in the morning.
1:16.2	You won't want to miss this discussion.
1:17.5	Stay tuned.
1:23.0	All right, I don't know how much I'm going to want to talk about this.
1:26.6	I was supposed to do it in an episode with Bishal Gaywally,
1:29.3	but we had some technical difficulties we're trying to piece together that episode.
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