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Plenary Session

5.01 - How To Read Randomized Trials In Cancer

Plenary Session

Vinay Prasad, MD MPH

Health, Medicine, Policy, Oncology, Science & Medicine

4.7789 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

How to read randomized trials in cancer medicine. Phase 2 vs 3, control arm, crossover, post protocol, censoring (the basics), and how law professors and medical professors are different and why it matters.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to Plenary Session Podcast.

0:02.3

And if you're watching on YouTube, welcome back to the channel.

0:04.8

I'm back here to do another video.

0:07.5

And this is about interpreting studies

0:09.3

because I think this is an important topic

0:11.2

that we don't talk enough about.

0:13.2

But first, I have to admit,

0:15.3

I, like many other people, have been enjoying this summer.

0:18.1

And I have been listening to a lot of podcasts.

0:20.7

And I really got turned on to some legal

0:22.8

podcasts.

0:23.6

And if you check out the show VPZD with my co-host, Zubimaniya, we talked a little bit about

0:27.7

these legal podcasts in the last episode, which came out, I think, just this morning.

0:32.6

And, you know, I'm kind of fascinated by law, and I have a bunch of questions about the law.

0:37.2

But one of the

0:38.1

things that struck me on this podcast was I feel like there's a difference in the culture

0:43.5

between academic law and academic medicine. An academic law, I think, incentivizes people and values

0:52.0

clever ideas, clever people.

0:54.9

I think that's the currency of the law.

0:56.9

And when I listen to these podcasts, thinking about how to interpret the Constitution

1:00.8

and how to talk about the Supreme Court and their legislation, you know, it's really about

1:04.9

coming up with sort of a clever way to harmonize the law, to build upon existing arguments,

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