Here we go - less than 5 weeks to #ASCO24 ASCO
Abstracts dropped last week and here's my list for key #GI #abstracts I can't wait to see!
🌟 #plenary for ESOPEC - will we settle FLOT vs CROSS for #esophCA ?
Congrats to all the presenters 👏
👇my picks for special oral abstract

It’s always REVIEWER 2 who’s having a bad day and ends up choosing the worst possible adjectives to describe a study put together with a lot of effort and sincerity by the investigators.
Please choose your words kindly 🙏🏻
You can certainly critique a paper without being rude! 😊

This ⬇️
One person’s guess is as good as the other’s till the cat is out of the bag.
Super pumped for this year’s ASCO! Exciting time to be an oncology trainee for real 💯

Join us 5/15 for a night all about discussing updates in the tx of breast cancer! Myself & my three breast med onc colleagues from University of Iowa Health Care UI Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center will be there. Excited to update everyone on the state of breast cancer care!

Register here: event.onclive.com/event/1baeb3c2…

April's IM Honor Roll has been released! Here are a few of the honorees:
- Mallory Ruden, ASC, Cardiovascular Medicine
- Chloe Miller, ASC, Cardiovascular Medicine
- Diana Jalal, MD, Nephrology
- Stefano Byer, MD, MS, R1, Internal Medicine
Read more: internalmedicineiowa.org/2024/04/15/int…

Great study elucidating more KRAS mt, less immunogenic biology, more aggressive clinical phenotype with body/tail compared to head PDAC.

Out in Journal of Clinical Oncology NECTIN4 Amplification predicts Enfortumab Vedotin response in Urothelial Cancer #mUC
💊 96% response rate to EV therapy in amplified cases vs 32% in others (P < .001).
➡️Perhaps we need to look deeper than IHC for other ADCs too? 🤔 ascopubs.org/doi/full/10.12…

Excited to publish our 1st paper in ESMO Gastrointestinal Oncology. Liquid biopsy is knocking at the door!!! ESMO - Eur. Oncology Florian Lordick Ducreux Michel Leslie Bucheit Dr Amit Mahipal Keelia Clemens Aditya Shreenivas MD MS University Hospitals Pashtoon Kasi MD, MS

I can’t wait for ESOPEC plenary!

FDA grants accelerated approval to tovorafenib for paediatric patients (aged ≥6 months) with R/R BRAF-rearranged or BRAF V600-mutant low-grade glioma based on data from the FIREFLY-1 study: fda.gov/drugs/resource…. Also see nature.com/articles/s4157… and nature.com/articles/s4157…

Wow. FTC Announces Rule Banning #Noncompetes . A few highlights of the Final Rule:
◽️Calls out protections for physicians by name📷
◽️Rule takes effect for all workers starting 120 days from when this rule is published in the Federal Register
◽️After day 120, no new #noncompetes …

final results of the Phase 1 study of ivosidenib in R/R IDH1m MDS

ashpublications.org/bloodadvances/…

🚨UPDATE 🚨
The Department of Cardiac Electrophysiology at Ochsner/LSU Health Science Center in Shreveport, Louisiana is currently inviting applications for a full-time (2-year) fellowship position within its esteemed ACGME-accredited Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship program.

I’ll never get it why we would subject an elderly patient to a regimen like Capecitabine+oxaliplatin, especially in the advanced setting. It’s so poorly tolerated 😕

CtDNA based MRD detection correlates with outcomes in resected biliary tract cancers patients- A RWE study. The evidence is building up in BTC and continues to grow in GI cancers. Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation #ccf2024 Stacie Lindsey Melinda Bachini

H.O.M.E Mentorship Program Hem-Onc Fellows Network ASCO IMG Oncologists Patrick Forde Maya K. Khalil, MD Mamtha Balla,MD, MPH, FACP ASCOTECAG Tulsi Jose, MD Lei Deng, MD (He/Him) KMittaloncMD Great to see this initiative!! Visa issues are nightmares for IMGs. There really needs to be a better system for those people who sacrificed leaving their families and home countries to chase their dreams!! I was one of them one day!! Cc chadi nabhan MD, MBA, FACP

Learn more about a Phase 2 #pheo #para clinical trial. nick 🔬

Neeraj Agarwal, MD, FASCO, is a professor of medicine at the University of Utah Huntsman Cancer Institute Institute. He was invited by Yousef Zakharia, MD, onto the Iowa campus last week to deliver a Grand Rounds presentation and to meet with residents and fellows. internalmedicineiowa.org/2024/04/16/res…

Best way to spend the morning- talking about NETs! 🦓 ☢️ 💊 🩼 University of Iowa Health Care #iowahemeoncfellows

Congratulations Chris Strouse for this amazing honor! ⭐️ 🏆 UI Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center