Ibrahim Azar, MD (@ibrahimazaronc) 's Twitter Profile
Ibrahim Azar, MD

@ibrahimazaronc

Medical Oncologist @IHACares Assistant Professor @WayneState. Alum @karmanoscancer @AlbanyMed
@mcgillu. AΩA. GI Oncology Mednet Associate Editor.

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Castalia Fernández, MD. (@fuenteapolo) 's Twitter Profile Photo

#radonc #lcsm NRG-CC003 trial: Hippocampal avoidance (HA) during prophylactic cranial irradiation (#PCI) in small cell lung cancer (#SCLC) didn't meet primary endpoint for 6-month Hopkins Verbal Learning Test–Revised (HVLT-R) Delayed Recall preservation (30.0% vs 25.5%

#radonc #lcsm NRG-CC003 trial: Hippocampal avoidance (HA) during prophylactic cranial irradiation (#PCI) in small cell lung cancer (#SCLC) didn't meet primary endpoint for 6-month Hopkins Verbal Learning Test–Revised (HVLT-R) Delayed Recall preservation (30.0% vs 25.5%
Vamsi Aribindi (@aribindi) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Spicy take: medical credentialing/priviliging in 2025 wastes $ billions and doesn't protect anyone. We should have single, nationwide priviliging for every provider (and national med licenses while we're at it) run by some neutral consortium that every hospital has to follow.

Dr Sarah Sammons (@drsarahsam) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Nice work! There is no rationale reason not to screen HER2+ patients for brain metastases. 1) smaller lesions, SRS easier and less radiation necrosis, less morbidity 2) we have two drugs that improve OS in Brain Mets We don’t need RCTs here…

OHSU Knight Cancer Institute (@ohsuknight) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Phil and Penny Knight announced today a record-breaking $2 billion gift to the Oregon Health & Science University’s Knight Cancer Institute to transform the future of cancer care and set a new standard globally. Thank you to Phil and Penny Knight for their incredible generosity.

Phil and Penny Knight announced today a record-breaking $2 billion gift to the Oregon Health & Science University’s Knight Cancer Institute to transform the future of cancer care and set a new standard globally.

Thank you to Phil and Penny Knight for their incredible generosity.
Scott Becker (@bkrbusinessmin) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Unpopular opinion Medical education in our country is broken. It's creates great drs and is too long, too expensive and too outdated. Nurse education was accelerated very quickly to solve an issue. Why the f can't we do this with Dr education. They do it in other

Martin Dietrich, MD, PhD (@doctordietrich) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Zongertinib has been added to the NCCN guidelines. 7 days from approval (Aug 8) to addition (Aug 15) is great real-time speed underlining enthusiasm for approval. NCCN encompasses "...oncogenic and likely oncogenic mutations" with a broader inclusion than TKD-restricted FDA

Zongertinib has been added to the NCCN guidelines. 7 days from approval (Aug 8) to addition (Aug 15) is great real-time speed underlining enthusiasm for approval.

NCCN encompasses "...oncogenic and likely oncogenic mutations" with a broader inclusion than TKD-restricted FDA
Jack Andrews (@jackandrewsmd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

As men approach 80 with localized prostate cancer, the risk that local treatment (particularly surgery, but also RT) will significantly decrease quality of life is significantly higher then the likelihood that local therapy will extend their length of life. This has come up a

Tarek Haykal, MD, MHS (@tarekhaykal1) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It was an absolute pleasure to be part of this high-yield board review course by #MSHO presenting everything one needs to know about Melanoma!

It was an absolute pleasure to be part of this high-yield board review course by #MSHO presenting everything one needs to know about Melanoma!
Nicholas Hornstein (@gimedonc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Hot off the presses, probably my favorite interventional paper of 2025 (doesn't hurt that I look up to several of the authors as mentors or role models). 💉RAS vaccination is starting to look less like fantasy, more like reality. 🆕 Nature Medicine | Wainberg et al 🎯

Hot off the presses, probably my favorite interventional paper of 2025 (doesn't hurt that I look up to several of the authors as mentors or role models). 

💉RAS vaccination is starting to look less like fantasy, more like reality.

🆕 Nature Medicine | Wainberg et al
🎯
Ajay Major, MD, MBA (@majorajay) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Survival after incidental vs symptomatic FL: - 908 pts, 29% incidental - incidental: more early stage & normal LDH - no diff in EFS, lymphoma-specific survival, or OS between groups We can answer the "what if this was picked up earlier" question! #lymsm nature.com/articles/s4140…

Survival after incidental vs symptomatic FL:
- 908 pts, 29% incidental
- incidental: more early stage & normal LDH
- no diff in EFS, lymphoma-specific survival, or OS between groups
We can answer the "what if this was picked up earlier" question! #lymsm
nature.com/articles/s4140…
Vincent Rajkumar (@vincentrk) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Academic medicine is bleeding talent. The best experts are counting to retire or switch careers at an alarming rate. It’s folly to think that you can replace top talent easily — you will need 10 people to provide the level of productivity of one top talent. The effects may

Dr. Antonio Calles 🫁🚭 (@tony_calles) 's Twitter Profile Photo

☢️ Finally published the High-Dose Versus Standard-Dose Twice-Daily Thoracic Radiotherapy for LS-SCLC. ✅OS 43.5 versus 22.5 mo, (HR 0.68, 95% CI 0.48–0.98, p = 0.037) No more acute or late onset toxicity. ✅ Would you now consider 60 Gy bid the new standard of care? #LCSM

Rafeh Naqash, MD (@thenasheffect) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Thrilled to share our extensive work on LCNEC in collaboration with many centers and Caris Life Sciences now out in Nature Communications labour of love for 2+ years led by tireless efforts from Amin Nassar, MD and several others! nature.com/articles/s4146… Anne Chiang Chul Kim OU College of Medicine

Thrilled to share our extensive work on LCNEC in collaboration with many centers and <a href="/carisls/">Caris Life Sciences</a> now out in <a href="/NatureComms/">Nature Communications</a> labour of love for 2+ years led by tireless efforts from <a href="/AminNassarMD/">Amin Nassar, MD</a> and several others! nature.com/articles/s4146… <a href="/Annechiangmd/">Anne Chiang</a> <a href="/chulkimMD/">Chul Kim</a> <a href="/OUCollegeofMed/">OU College of Medicine</a>
Alessio Cortellini (@acortellinimd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Kudos to Rafeh Naqash, MD Amin Nassar, MD Anne Chiang Chul Kim for leading this collaborative effort! Finally shedding some light on LCNEC: - Comparable survival with chemo, chemo-IO, or IO - 2 molecular subtypes: NSCLC-like (KRAS, STK11, KEAP1) vs SCLC-like (TP53, RB1) -

Udhayvir Grewal (@ugrewalmd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Interesting data showing early-onset PDAC may be enriched for druggable alterations compared to average-onset. 🧬 In 224 PDAC pts: 23.2% (52/224) were KRAS-wt. Actionable TIER I–III alterations:  • KRAS-wt: 23.1% (12/52)  • KRAS-mut: 11.6% (20/172)  (P=0.04) Gene fusions:

Thor Halfdanarson (@oncothor) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Small rectal NETs are common and incidence is increasing. How should we follow patients? This >1000 pt study suggests that recurrences rarely occur following resection of ≤0.7 cm G1 NETs and surveillance may not be needed. Highly relevant paper. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/de…

Small rectal NETs are common and incidence is increasing. How should we follow patients? This &gt;1000 pt study suggests that recurrences rarely occur following resection of ≤0.7 cm G1 NETs and surveillance may not be needed. Highly relevant paper.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/de…
Yakup Ergün (@dr_yakupergun) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Mayo Clinic retrospective analysis: Induction chemo+ IO → cCRT → +/- maintenance ICI appears feasible in stage III NSCLC patients not suitable for upfront cCRT (n:29) ORR➡️ 93% (induction phase) mPFS➡️18 mo mOS➡️24 mo ❗️Adverse events: pneumonitis 37.9% (≥grade 3: 18%),

Mayo Clinic retrospective analysis:
Induction chemo+ IO → cCRT → +/- maintenance ICI appears feasible in stage III NSCLC patients not suitable for upfront cCRT (n:29)

ORR➡️ 93% (induction phase)
mPFS➡️18 mo
mOS➡️24 mo

❗️Adverse events: pneumonitis 37.9% (≥grade 3: 18%),