"Could not be more excited and thankful to be participating in the SSO Career Catalyst Program with Kelly K Hunt as my mentor!! Just spent a fabulous week at MD Anderson Cancer Center, catching up with old friends and making new ones!" - Jennifer Plichta MD (she/her)

#AudioVisualAbstract: Local Therapy Improves Survival for Early Recurrence After Resection of #ColorectalLiverMetastases Art Boyev Timothy Newhook Ching-Wei D. Tzeng Harufumi Maki Jean-Nicolas Vauthey MD rdcu.be/dW2c6 Jin He Syed A. Ahmad

The Career Catalyst Program is an innovative initiative by Society of Surgical Oncology with a remarkable group of inaugural mentees like Amanda Kirane and 7 other phenomenal mid-career oncologic surgeons. What an opportunity to be mentored by the truly brilliant Genevieve Boland, MD, PhD

Congratulations to our Dr. Funda Meric-Bernstam for being elected to the National Academy of Medicine for her contributions to precision oncology, therapeutics development and biomarker discovery. Read more: brnw.ch/21wNY10 National Academy of Medicine #EndCancer

Best way to beat the FOMO of missing #ACSCC24 this year? Bake Oreo tres leches at home in honor of the final day of clinical congress

Jennifer Wargo delivers a keynote address on the microbiome to open the EORTC-NCI-AACR Symposium on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics. #ENASymp24 Jennifer Wargo MD

Interesting work on genomic correlates of TVEC response in #melanoma Mass General Surgery thanks to Kailan Sierra-Davidson & Sonia Cohen pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39422848/

Congratulations to Thomas Szabo Yamashita and Sophia Williams-Perez, MD MEd!

"Solid tumors can be treatment-resistant due to their complex microenvironment," says our Dr. Christopher Johnston. "But harnessing the unique abilities of certain microbes may give us a new way to tackle those barriers.” Read more: brnw.ch/21wOoO5 #SITC24 #EndCancer

Our Dr. Jennifer Wargo MD co-chaired a session on the microbiome at #SITC24, which included a discussion from our Dr. Christopher Johnston on challenges and opportunities for microbial cell therapies. Learn more here: brnw.ch/21wOoO5 @SITCancer #EndCancer

Today was incredibly humbling. So thankful to be surrounded by leaders who constantly keep pushing and inspiring me to reach for the stars. Thank you to Rae Brana Reynolds , Dr. Katz, Maria Petzel RD CSO, and Carla Patel for the amazing nomination letters. #oncsurgery MD Anderson Cancer Center

Proud of our 🌟 T32 fellow Neha Malik MD sharing our findings on QoL metrics for patients who underwent neoadjuvant immunotherapy for RP DDLPS! #ctos2024 Christina Roland, MD, MS Emily Keung, MD Elise Nassif Haddad

Bittersweet day - my last prophylactic total gastrectomy NIH Clinical Center . Have done 200+ TG's here & when I started many ppl told me I shouldn't & that I'd never recruit enough patients w/ #gastriccancer or #CDH1 Check out or paper: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… National Cancer Institute Society of Surgical Oncology

Congratulations to Eleanor Fallon on this great Annals of Surgical Oncology paper describing how radiologic PCI (rPCI) can reliably rule out patients for CRS based on surgical cutoffs rPCI can be used to counsel and direct patients on future diagnostic/treatment options including laparoscopy

Check out teaser Moonshine Agency #ConqueringSkinCancer documentary MD Anderson Cancer Center #EndCancer Honored to be volunteer exec producer w #melanoma friends UMD Public Health Dean Boris Lushniak Stanford Medicine Allison Betof Warner, MD, PhD & Susan Swetter Weill Cornell Medicine Jedd Wolchok bit.ly/43liIch

The Microbiome and Cancer: A Translational Science Review ⁦JAMA⁩ jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Thanks for giving us a forum to present this work American Association of Endocrine Surgeons. Bottom line: selection bias notwithstanding, surgical resection of the primary tumor may confer a survival benefit in *selected* patients with metastatic ACC. #AAES2025

Inspiring presentation Sean Cleary a true “student of the disease”. Thanks for sharing your vast experience and academic work on Neuroendocrine Liver Metastases #oncsurgery U of T Department of Surgery MD Anderson Cancer Center

Thrilled to share our paper now out in nature that correlates inactivating PPP2R1A somatic mutations with improved survival for patients with cancer receiving immunotherapy, with exciting prelim mechanistic insights! Amir Jazaeri Linghua Wang, MD, PhD Yibo nature.com/articles/s4158…

Dr. Renier Brentjens and Dr. Leonid Cherkassky have been awarded a Stephenson (SGPCRI) Scholar Grant to advance CAR T-cell therapy for pancreatic cancer. This grant supports innovative research aimed at improving detection and treatment. Learn more: businesswire.com/news/home/2025…