Melissa Accordino, MD, MS
@maccordino
Breast Medical Oncologist and Health Outcomes Researcher @Columbia. Fantasy football/Bucs fan. Food lover. Mom of twin boys. Tweets/opinons are my own.
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07-03-2010 19:55:51
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We enrolled our 1st participant to SWOG Cancer Research Network 1703! swog.org/clinical-trial… a randomized NCI Cancer Control trial to evaluate the most effective and #patientcentric way to monitor metastatic #breastcancer. Thanks The Hope Foundation for Cancer Research Conquer Cancer, the ASCO Foundation The Breast Cancer Research Foundation NCI Prevention & Early Detection for your support!
#Scanxiety can greatly affect our patients #qualityoflife. SWOG Cancer Research Network 1703 swog.org/clinical-trial… is open and will help determine if #tumormarker directed monitoring can reduce scanxiety and improve #qol, and #costsofcare in #bcsm without affecting survival.
Thanks ⬅️Raiders icon for leading me to an unexpected FF 🏆. In his name, part of my winnings have been donated to Team Luke Hope for Minds. Champion Causes Matthew Berry
Lots of work left to be done, but NewYork-Presbyterian and Columbia Medicine are dedicated to improving the lives of our patients and families affect by cancer. #WorldCancerDay
#HeartDisease is also the #1 cause of death among #breastcancer #survivors. After diagnosis It is important to encourage adherence to both #bcsm medications and to #cardiovascular medications onclive.com/conference-cov… Dawn Hershman Nisha Jhalani, MD Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center
Congratulations Dawn Hershman!! Thanks for all you do - truly an inspiration to all of us!! We all hope to be like you when we “grow up” #mentor #GirlPower #WomenInMedicine #WomeninScience #PatientCare #clinicaltrials #qualitycare #bcsm #caredelivery #notenoughcharacters
This course was an incredible experience! The #interdisciplinary feedback strengthened my proposal which ultimately led to The Hope Foundation for Cancer Research and Conquer Cancer, the ASCO Foundation #funding
Congratulations to Meghna Trivedi and Kevin Kalinsky, MD, MS, FASCO on SWOG awards. So proud!!. Thank you SWOG Cancer Research Network The Hope Foundation for Cancer Research. 🍾🎉🎊Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center NewYork-Presbyterian
Greatly appreciate everything Conquer Cancer, the ASCO Foundation has done to support junior investigators! I will donate and challenge Mina S. Sedrak @SMougalian Chung-Han Lee 李宗翰, MD/PhD
So thankful to receive the #CovidVaccine. Thank you to all the #scientists and clinical trial volunteers! #Science #VaccinesSaveLives #WearAMaskSaveALife #Guttstrong Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center NewYork-Presbyterian
Mock tumor board for Columbia Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons with David Horowitz Craig Blinderman, MD, MA, Drs Desperito, Taback and Guo showing the med students importance of #multid collaboration Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center Columbia RadOnc Columbia Medicine Columbia Surgery Columbia Pathology
In patients with metastatic, HR+, HER2- #breastcancer with initially elevated levels of serum tumor markers, can levels be used to monitor treatment response? SWOG Cancer Research Network S1703 is for patients about to start treatment or within their first 60 days SWOG.org/clinical-trial… Komal Jhaveri
So proud of my brilliant colleague Neil Vasan
We are thrilled that you are joining us Brandon Da Silva! Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center Columbia Medicine 🎉🎉🎉