Oncology Unscripted With John Marshall

“Badge-up” with Dr Marshall at ASCO 2025

John Marshall, MD: John Marshall coming to you live Oncology Unscripted, not from my office back in Georgetown, but from beautiful downtown Chicago, Illinois at ASCO 2025. Look at this amazing place. 40,000 of our closest friends.

To get in, you need to have one of these. So, I'm gonna go ahead and badge up. I got a fancy red collar thing here, boy, that makes me stand out even that much more.

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Badges, Booths, and Buses: Welcome to ASCO 2025

John Marshall, MD: John Marshall Oncology Unscripted. You know what this is? Yeah. You know what this is. This is my ASCO badge. It is that time of year again where I. I don't know, 40, 50, 60,000 of us and our closest friends all fly up to Chicago, stay in hotels that are overpriced, get bused around downtown Chicago, even on Saturday and Sunday. We get in nice clothes. We go to the c...

No Evidence of Disease—No Need for the Knife?

John Marshall, MD: John Marshall for Oncology Unscripted. Let's talk a little science and cancer medicine. I’m gonna come at you from a little bit of a different angle. Yep. A GI cancer angle, but a little bit different.

We have long felt in order to cure GI cancers, we had to do surgery, that it was the only way to ultimately cure people. But we all know that when we do neoadjuvant somet...

We Funded the Cure—Now We're Pulling the Plug?

John Marshall: Welcome to Washington DC. My name is John Marshall. This is Oncology Unscripted. There is a whole lot of stuff going on out there, seemingly unscripted, seemingly without much in the way of a sense of motivation, really a plan. It's just blow it up. Let's see what'll happen after the fact. 

But let's stop for just a second and think about what science, federally funded sci...

Published, Performed, Passed Over—Because Science Still Has a Gender Problem

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John Marshall, MD: John Marshall, Oncology Unscripted. It's unscripted because you can't make this stuff up. I don't know if your week or the last two has been anything like mine, but our country and our science and healthcare, and all of that stuff, is really undergoing an incredible number of changes so quickly that we can't even catch up with w...

THE WEIGHT OF THE WHITE COAT: BATTLING BURNOUT

How Do Middlemen Impact Our Practices? [00:00:00]

John Marshall, MD: Welcome back everybody to Oncology Unscripted. It is August and if you're lucky like I am, August is vacation time for me. I am at this beautiful place somewhere in the south, somewhere near a golf course and an ocean; a little river flowing right over there, some egrets and an occasional pelican flying by. There are fr...

John Marshall, MD: Hey, everybody. John Marshall with Oncology Update. Welcome back. This is episode 5. 

We now have a really cool function called ask a question. Click on that. Send us something. We hope to get back with you with an answer.

Most of the time, you know, you see these things and it's all nailed down, and you know exactly what you're about to get. Not so much with this. We’re really trying to bring to you the current da...

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John Marshall, MD: Hey everybody, this is, believe it or not, episode four of Oncology Update, where we're really trying to get to, God should we say it, the truth in oncology. There's so much going on out there. It's a complex business. There's a lot of really cool science. There's a lot of progress going on. We're affecting a lot of people's lives, including our own. 

So, let's jump right in and see what's going on out t...

Oncology Update: Introduction [00:00:00]

John Marshall, MD: Welcome back to Oncology Update. My name is John Marshall here from Georgetown University, Washington, D. C., the land of freedom. I don't know what it is the land of anymore, but welcome back to Episode 3 of Oncology Update. 

Our theme for this session is going to be, how do you stay up to date? How do your patients stay up to date with all that's going on in the world of o...

John Marshall, MD: Hey everybody, John Marshall for Oncology Update. Believe it or not, second episode. They let me do a second one. There's bad judgment on their part.

ASCO Buzz

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We're just back from ASCO, so you know how everybody's doing. You're still trying to pile out of your emails and figure out if you're actually going to get reimbursed for that dinner or not try for it. You never know. It might work out. 

Let's start...

[00:00:00] John Marshall, MD: Hey, everybody out there. This is John Marshall live from my office at Georgetown University. And this is oncology update for May 22, 2024. We're about one week out from ASCO. There's a lot going on, but first let's talk a little bit about what's going on out there in our business world in oncology today.

Shifts & Shocks: Layoffs, Dose Reductions, and Drug Withdrawals

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John Marshall, MD:

Hey, everybody, John Marshall back for oncology unscripted. If you've been silly enough to further away your time with me, we're now on the 7th episode, believe it or not. Goodness gracious, the sponsors of this are crazy to let me keep going. 

But we do have some really cool stuff to talk about today, and I hope you'll listen in as I review not only sort of what's going on in our world, a little bit of g...

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Hello, everybody. John Marshall from Oncology Unscripted. Do you know where I was this past weekend? I was in San Francisco. It's actually pretty nice weather there in San Francisco. I go pretty much every year. In fact, I have gone to every GI ASCO. 

Skipping This Test in Frontline Metastatic Colon Cancer? That’s Malpractice.

[00:00:24] It's really usually my first business trip of the year. Usually, the ...

The Economics of Cancer Care: Who Pays for Progress? 

John Marshall, MD: What do you guys think? What do you think I'm looking like today here in Washington D.C. In January 2025? Well, What I'm trying to look like is the new administration, which is moving in just down the street from me there. 

There is an unfortunate casket, a hundred-year-old man inside, draped in the American flag. What I think of as a sort of heroic politician. ...

MedBuzz: The PBM Pushback

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John Marshall, MD: Ho, Ho, Ho, everybody out there. This is John Marshall for Oncology Unscripted, and we're going to talk a lot about pancreatic cancer today. We're also going to talk about some other things as well, but I thought I would sort of start off with a little holiday story. 

See that stocking? I've had this stocking for a long, long time. I actually keep it right over there in my drawer...

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Is the Inflation Reduction Act a Threat or Opportunity for Oncology?  

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[00:00:05] John Marshall, MD: Hey everybody, John Marshall live from Washington DC where all the action is happening. A lot of moving vans are likely to be coming here soon as the new party comes in to take over maybe everything. We're going to have to see how that goes. We're all living in this crazy state of uncertainty about just how much. ...

Monopoly Concerns with Oncology Acquisitions: Should We Be Worried 

[00:00:05] John Marshall, MD: John Marshall, MD: Hey, everybody, John Marshall with Oncology Unscripted, even though I've got a little bit of a script right here, but don't tell anybody. Today, we're going to talk all about dosing of medicine, and do we have it right or not, particularly with some of our newer cancer medicines. And I'm going to really drill down on ...