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Vinay Prasad, MD MPH

Professor, University of California San Francisco
Verified email at ucsf.edu
Cited by 13565

[HTML][HTML] Perspective: the precision-oncology illusion

V Prasad - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Vinay Prasad … Precision oncology has not been shown to work, and perhaps it never
will, says Vinay Prasad. … Vinay Prasad

A decade of reversal: an analysis of 146 contradicted medical practices

V Prasad, A Vandross, C Toomey, M Cheung… - Mayo Clinic …, 2013 - Elsevier
… Author links open overlay panel Vinay Prasad MD a , Andrae Vandross MD b , Caitlin …
The views and opinions of Dr Prasad do not necessarily reflect those of the National Cancer …

Five years of cancer drug approvals: innovation, efficacy, and costs

S Mailankody, V Prasad - JAMA oncology, 2015 - jamanetwork.com
… Mailankody S, Prasad V. Five Years of Cancer Drug Approvals: Innovation, Efficacy, and
Costs. JAMA Oncol. … Sham Mailankody, MB BS 1 ; Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH 1 …

Estimation of the percentage of US patients with cancer who are eligible for and respond to checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy drugs

A Haslam, V Prasad - JAMA network open, 2019 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Immunotherapy checkpoint inhibitors have generated considerable interest
because of durable responses in a number of hitherto intractable tumor types. Objective To …

The strength of association between surrogate end points and survival in oncology: a systematic review of trial-level meta-analyses

V Prasad, C Kim, M Burotto… - JAMA internal medicine, 2015 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The strength of association between surrogate end points and survival in oncology
is important to understand because surrogate end points are frequently used in oncology …

Reversals of established medical practices: evidence to abandon ship

V Prasad, A Cifu, JPA Ioannidis - Jama, 2012 - jamanetwork.com
IDEALLY, GOOD MEDICAL PRACTICES ARE REPLACED BY BET-ter ones, based on robust
comparative trials in which new interventions outperform older ones and establish new …

[HTML][HTML] Evidence-based de-implementation for contradicted, unproven, and aspiring healthcare practices

V Prasad, JPA Ioannidis - Implementation Science, 2014 - Springer
Abandoning ineffective medical practices and mitigating the risks of untested practices are
important for improving patient health and containing healthcare costs. Historically, this …

Why cancer screening has never been shown to “save lives”—and what we can do about it

V Prasad, J Lenzer, DH Newman - Bmj, 2016 - bmj.com
Vinay Prasad and colleagues argue that reductions in overall mortality should be the
benchmark and call for higher standards of evidence for cancer screening Vinay Prasad …

Estimation of the percentage of US patients with cancer who benefit from genome-driven oncology

J Marquart, EY Chen, V Prasad - JAMA oncology, 2018 - jamanetwork.com
Importance To date, the benefit of genome-driven cancer therapy has not been quantified.
Objective We sought to estimate the annual percentage of patients in the United States with …

Research and development spending to bring a single cancer drug to market and revenues after approval

V Prasad, S Mailankody - JAMA internal medicine, 2017 - jamanetwork.com
Importance A common justification for high cancer drug prices is the sizable research and
development (R&D) outlay necessary to bring a drug to the US market. A recent estimate of …