Vinay Prasad on Cancer Drugs, Medical Ethics, and Malignant

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🗓️ 20 April 2020

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Oncologist, author, and podcaster Vinay Prasad talks about his book Malignant with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Prasad lays out the conflicts of interest and scientific challenges that make drugs that fight cancer so disappointing at times. The conversation looks at how policy changes might improve the incentives facing doctors, pharmaceutical companies, and patients.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
0:12.0	Our website is econtalk.org, where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast,
0:17.0	and find links and other information related to today's conversation.
0:21.0	We'll also find our archives where you can listen to every episode we've ever done going back to 2006.
0:27.0	Our email address is mailadycontalk.org. We'd love to hear from you.
0:33.0	Today is February 6, 2020, and I guess is hematologist, oncologist, and professor.
0:39.0	Vinai Prasad of Oregon Health and Science University.
0:42.0	He studies cancer drugs, health policy, and evidence-based medicine,
0:45.0	and hosts the oncology podcast Plenary Session.
0:48.0	It's the author of over 200 academic articles,
0:51.0	co-author of the book Ending Medical Reversal, which was the subject of an e-con talk
0:55.0	episode with co-author Adam Seafood.
0:58.0	His latest book and the subject of today's conversation is malignant,
1:02.0	how bad policy and bad evidence harm people with cancer, but I welcome to Econ Talk.
1:08.0	Thanks for having me so much, Russ.
1:10.0	We're going to be talking about cancer today, the system that tries to fight it,
1:14.0	the cost of that system, its effectiveness,
1:16.0	the listeners who went background on the issues were going to be discussing
1:19.0	and listening to past episodes with Vincent Rushkumar, Robin Feldman, Jacob Stagginger,
1:24.0	and Azra Raza will link to those episodes that I encourage you to check them out.
1:28.0	Vinai, in your book, Belignant, you write the following.
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