Vinay Prasad on Cancer Screening

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🗓️ 28 August 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Early detection of cancer seems like a very good idea. But it's a lot more complicated than it seems. Oncologist and epidemiologist Vinay Prasad of the University of California, San Francisco talks to EconTalk's Russ Roberts about why many tests to detect cancer do little or nothing to extend lifespan.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics
0:07.0	and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover
0:13.0	Institution.
0:14.0	Go to econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode, and find links down
0:18.6	the information related to today's conversation.
0:21.4	You'll also find our archives, but every episode we've done going back to 2006.
0:26.8	Our email address is mail at econtalk.org.
0:29.8	We'd love to hear from you.
0:37.8	Today is August 2nd, 2023, and my guest is oncologist and professor of epidemiology,
0:43.2	Vanille Prasad of the University of California, San Francisco.
0:47.4	This has been I's fourth appearance on econ talk.
0:49.5	He was last year in January of 2023 talking about the FDA and the death of duty.
0:57.0	Russ, such a pleasure to be here.
0:59.0	Our topic for today is screening for cancer.
1:03.0	Screening seems like an unambiguously wonderful idea.
1:07.0	The idea is to catch the cancer before it's manifested when it's too late.
1:12.0	When you happen to notice it in a very unpleasant way.
1:15.0	And it seems like a great idea to catch it early, but it's complicated.
1:19.0	Why?
1:20.0	Why is it complicated?
1:23.0	It's something that everyone's interested in, and we've got a number of blood-based companies in this space.
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