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Ian Davis

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Professor of medicine | medical oncologist | Head, Monash University Eastern Health Clinical School | Chair, ANZUP Cancer Trials Group | husband, father, grandfather, blessed | want to make a positive difference

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I was in a restaurant in New York once where the urinal was actually simply a wall of one-way (I hope) glass. There was an occupied table immediately on the other side of it. Very disconcerting and caused stage fright issues.

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This is perhaps the best definition I’ve read so far.

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Winter.

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Please don’t ever stop painting these works of word art.

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This advice comes far too late. I’m still traumatised from searching for plants online. Forget perennials, I’m going to look for annuals instead… no… oh God no…

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Morning light.

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You should also put up a picture of a bigger one, so that this one can be the le…. never mind.

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There is a whole advertising campaign in Australia based on this joke!

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Um: Chris Squire. That should be enough to shut down any such arguments for good.

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Looks like that’s a variation - I’m sure I had the words right, and text was at the top of the page, but that was the image. Thanks for looking!

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I’ve never been able to find the image, but I remember when The Princess Bride was in cinemas and there was a poster with the caption: “He dies She marries someone else But it all turns out alright in the end”

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Make them define woke, and explain why they despise it. Make them say the quiet part out loud.

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Lots of spoilers at this Good Friday service.

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And yes, it has no pictures. And it’s wonderful to see kids have the revelation that you do not need pictures to get immense satisfaction from a book, but that words can paint the most amazing pictures all by themselves. Proving again it’s not true that 1 word = 1 millipicture.

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If you are ever in the mood to have small children falling all over you howling with laughter, do yourself a favour and get “The Book With No Pictures” by BJ Novak. Be prepared to go all in on the performance for maximum return, and to do multiple re-reads.

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Just a minute, you might be onto something

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I thought I was at work but there seems to be a serious glitch in the matrix.

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One trial I was involved in of that design failed to reach its primary endpoint (based on numbers with stable disease) because a lot of people had a good response. This is a great problem to have: participants had great outcomes. Design then switched to a straightforward phase 2.

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One challenge is you might not be sure how many you need to enrol at the start in order to get the numbers to be randomised, since that’s a subset of the whole. Makes it harder to estimate overall trial resources.

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For example: Lead-in: everyone gets treated for N weeks, then restage. * Disease progression: stop. * Response: continue. * Stable disease (ie could just be an indolent cancer but might be being controlled by drug): randomise between continuing or alternative (eg stopping).

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Always depends on the details of the study, but I’ve done a few with a lead-in component and they were of course all an ethical design.

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Yes, very useful for example in randomised discontinuation designs.

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This is an absolute belter of a movie, great for kids and adults. It’s always fun when your kids are embarrassed because you’re the only person in the audience laughing out loud. I put it up there with The Princess Bride for sheer enjoyment and quotable quotes. Animated film making at its best.

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Steady on, let’s not go crazy.

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Thanks to our fantastic sponsors, and to everyone who is participating and making such a difference for people affected by #BelowTheBelt cancers

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Four (4) teaspoons easily found in work tearoom this morning. Surely the apocalypse is upon us.

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[Aspiring author George Rothfuss]: Good advice!

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Walking to the right, wherever you are.

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I used to be very proud to be Australian. Not today. Maybe not ever again.

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