🙌🏾 🗞️Our #ctDNA🩸🧬paper in the #JITCTop10! MSI⬆️ #PancreasCancer …median PFS/OS NOT REACHED …among the 9 patients treated with ICI, 7/9 were alive at the time of data cut-off 1 who went for surgery➡️pathCR! #JITC #PANCSM Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer Top🔟 Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer OncoAlert #OpenAccess

There’s still time to register! Join us tonight to discuss all things HCC & trials with a ⭐️ panel of experts 👇🏻

🔥Excellent news: Pivotal phase III IMbrave050 study is positive: The first positive adjuvant trial in #HCC🔥 👉Atezolizumab + Avastin improves RFS in pts at high risk of recurrence following surgery ESMO - Eur. Oncology OncoAlert EASL Education #livertwitter

✅ absence of gene alterations (-ve hyperselection) in ctDNA predicts benefit from pani rather than sideness!👇 ❓are we excluding pts from EGFRi with sidedness alone ➡️more to come & validation studies needed A biomarker study of the phase III PARADIGM trial ASCO #GI23 #CRCSM

Congratulations to cardiothoracic surgeon Thomas E. MacGillivray, MD, from MedStar Health, on being elected 2023-24 President of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons. An STS member since 2003, he has served the Society in various leadership roles. bit.ly/3ZT1Kye

📣 Special pub alert!📣 Why special?🤷🏻‍♀️ 👩🏼‍⚕️Most meaningful piece to write 👩🏻‍⚕️Ability to showcase strides made 👩🏾‍⚕️Platform to note remaining disparities 👩🏿‍⚕️Selected pub date - Feb 3rd!!! Thank you AJG - The American Journal of Gastroenterology! #IamBlackwell #NWPD #NationalWomenPhysiciansDay tinyurl.com/tw5ba7be

Congratulations to Dr. Douglas B. Evans for receiving the 2022 Luminary Award for GI Cancer, presented by Cure GI Cancers and OncLive.com, which recognizes individuals who have made transformative strides in the lives of patients with GI cancers. Learn more: mcw.edu/news/dr-dougla…

Great day attending and presenting at the MedStar Pancreatobiliary diseases conference! MedStar Georgetown MedStar Health Cure GI Cancers Emily Winslow Reena C Jha Reetu Mukherji, MD Walid Chalhoub, MD Ruth He, MD, PhD

Nice collaboration with Dr. Jill Smith: repurpose a Cholecystokinin receptor antagonist to modify the tumor microenvironment by increasing CD8 T cells and decreasing fibrosis in HCC.

Setting the standards 📐 of common bile duct and pancreatic duct 🌱 CBD up to 8 mm < 65 y/o and up to 11 mm in ≥65 y/o 🍡 PD diameters up to 3 mm in <65 y/o and up to 4 mm in ≥65 y/o Landmark open access Gut Journal paper 👏 kudos to authors ! 👉 gut.bmj.com/content/early/…

#HAI consortium surgeons at #AHPBA2023 | together with medical oncology colleagues, we are working to advance the field and define the role of HAI for #CRLM and intrahepatic cholangio. Q: How? A: Modern-day RCTs. Coming soon to a pump center near you. ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group COLONTOWN Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation

$$$ matter! I challenge you to find any surgical society with higher R0I than SSAT. Active annual dues are only $155; trainees $20! Meeting registration for full active members is only $210 with early bird (ENDS TODAY) & $310 after ... ddw.org/register/regis…

More content with our U of T Department of Surgery team on day 1 of #SSO2023 tomorrow Talk assessment and management of older adults for #HPBSurgery in #SSOHUB with Julie Hallet and panelists Emily Winslow Amanda Arrington MD MHM & Kamran Idrees 🗓4:45PM in HUB Theater CSSO Society of Surgical Oncology

🚨First registry-linked collaborative RCT using NSQIP AHPBA American College of Surgeons ⭐️Pip-taz for antibioprophylaxis in whipple👉🏻⬇️ 30-day SSI in RCT ⭐️New standard of care & new way to run multi-centre trials 👏🏻Congrats everyone! Michael D’Angelica jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Heated discussion on liver transplant for ICC, IO therapy in HCC with different etiology, 2nd line HCC design. Fun session👍.

Carcinoma Tail of Pancreas

Read about how we use CODA to 3D print pancreas microanatomy from serial histological sections, out today in Advanced Materials Technologies. Big thanks to the Johns Hopkins WSE manufacturing team who helped us with the printing 🤗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

🌟 #ArticleOfTheWeek 🌟 "Survival disparities in rural versus urban patients with pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor" by Drs. Muhammad Bilal Mirza Paula Marincola Smith, MD, PhD, Mary Dillhoff MD, Flavio G Rocha, MD, FACS, FSSO, Emily Winslow, Shishir K. Maithel. 👀 doi.org/10.1016/j.amjs… 📚 AmJSurgery

Had a great time on the hill meeting with lawmakers about health equity, access to cancer screening, STOP THE BLEED® & more with SSAT & American College of Surgeons Thankful for Georgetown Medicine’s proximity to Congress & the opportunity to advocate for our patients