Starting at 4:00 PM EDT, Justine Kahn, MD, MS, (Justine Kahn MD, MS) will present on existing disparities in pediatric oncology and serve as a panelist during today's Pediatric Oncology Oral Abstract Session at #ASCO22 More info: meetings.asco.org/2022-asco-annu…

Justine Kahn MD, MS summarizing updates in #pediatric #cancer #disparities. Post relapse survival inferior for blacks and Hispanics, especially in #AYA cancers. Improving #access to therapies after relapse for all patients is needed.

Thank you! It will take work to dismantle the long-standing discriminatory policies that drive disparities, but as @Lenkai12 said so beautifully in her talk, there is no better demonstration population in which to do it than #pediatric #oncology. Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center Columbia Children's Health

Along w/ novel #clinical #trials and #psychosocial interventions, #AYAs w/ #cancer need evidence-based #pain management options that move beyond old paradigms & into the era of #personalized #care. Melissa P Beauchemin Melissa Accordino, MD, MS Jacob Cogan Dawn Hershman ACS Journal Cancer

It really takes a village. 🙏🏻 Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center Columbia Children's Health Hope & Heroes #NCORP @NCICRCHD National Cancer Institute

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Congrats Justine Kahn MD, MS! What a wonderful acknowledgement of your work with children with cancer! #ChildhoodCancer

I’m learning from the best of the best! @doctortara Sharon M. Castellino Kara Kelly

Are you planning to attend #SIOP2022 ? Then you should join our Young SIOP Education Day! Last but not least - our Expert Lunch! So popular that you'll have to join the waiting list... but who knows? You could still get a last-minute seat! Justine Kahn MD, MS eventbrite.com/e/young-siop-n…

Proud to be at #SIOP2022 in Barcelona 🇪🇸 representing Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center Columbia Children's Health. Such an honor to be invited 🙏🏻 Young SIOP SIOP International🎗#GoGold

Just a regular Wednesday in #Pediatric #oncology clinic Columbia Children's Health Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center Hope & Heroes #gogold 🎗

My extraordinary mentors Kara Kelly and Sharon M. Castellino are not only brilliant, empathetic, fearless female pioneers in the field of #Hodgkin #lymphoma, they are now also first and last author on a #NEJM paper. Need I say more? Children’s Oncology Group NEJM Women in Lymphoma - wilLymphoma Research Foundation.org.au @lymphoma The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

Paradigm-shifting news for children and adolescents with #Hodgkin: FDA approves #brentuximab vedotin in combination with chemotherapy for pediatric patients with classical Hodgkin #lymphoma fda.gov/drugs/resource… Sharon M. Castellino Kara Kelly Children’s Oncology Group🎗️

IDK. It was seen in every clinical trial (& validated in registries).❓unique biology in AYAs or barriers/challenges to cancer care delivery (non-adherence, dose delays). Of note, ped HL pts 15-21 yrs w/ worse 5-yr EFS vs younger pts in COG: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34971582/ Justine Kahn MD, MS

acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cn… still relevant…

Proud of this - and encouraged that others recognize the importance of the topic! acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

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Interventions on the individual level can only take us so far on the path towards health equity. “Only policy can fix what policy has broken” Daniel E. Dawes speaking on the Political Determinants of Health at the 2023 Winn Awards Annual Convening. Dr. Rob Winn Justine Kahn MD, MS

Thank you Winn Awards Dr. Rob Winn for your unwavering commitment to this mission - you have changed all of us - and in turn, we will change the world. Lena Winestone, MD MSHP Daniel E. Dawes

➡️ Coming up at #ASH23: The session titled "Outcome Disparities in Hematologic Diseases: The Importance of Social Determinants of Health," featuring Justine Kahn MD, MS of @kidsatcolumbia, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center starts at 9 AM PST, as well as the first poster session!