What Vinay Prasad thinks about Psychotherapy

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Hematologist-oncologist and professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at UCSF. Director of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research from 2025 to 2026. Writes about cancer drugs, clinical-trial evidence and health policy; co-founder of Sensible Medicine.

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1. 10 Oct 2026

   Our readingIf a cancer treatment passes a phase 3 clinical trial but its mechanism of action is not understood, patients and doctors will still want to use it.

   Their wordsIf a phase 3 clinical trial is positive, as Tao postulates, but humans do not understand the mechanism of action that would be level one evidence to administer a therapy. Every cancer patient on Earth would want it. Every doctor would give it.

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