Knowing you were a victim is liberating. No longer blaming yourself for a bad circumstance empowers you to move forward.

Victimhood is limiting. Blaming others for all your suffering leaves you powerless to change your circumstances.

Pain is inevitable. Victimhood is a choice.

📣 Bernie Sanders is asking for input from #MedTwitter & #LongCovid patient/caregiver #advocacy community in advance of introducing a research funding bill for #LongCovid Moonshot. Read in full here & email to [email protected] by Tu 4/23/2024: sanders.senate.gov/wp-content/upl…

So happy to share my first Nature Nature Reviews Disease Primers publication, together with brilliant colleagues Garcia-Carbonero's Lab
Giuseppe Lamberti, Panzuto, Pavel, O’Toole, Ambrosini, Falconi, Rindi & Campana. on Gastric
#neuroendocrinecancer
go.nature.com/4aHikWE

NEW podcast out now!

Discover how to maximise outcomes with later-line treatment for your mCRC patients in this expert-led discussion

The full podcast is available on all platforms via this link ow.ly/L1G750RbEom

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Victor Hugo Fonseca de Jesus #MedEd

This starry sky🌈🌌 is what the immune cells look like gathering around a cancer that’s getting killed.

What’s fascinating is the diversity and crosstalk. The focus on one type of cell is an oversimplification.

BOT diversifies➕BAL maintains.
#NEST -1 🪺trial

📸RareCyte, Inc. #CRCSM

Oncology Brothers Aparna Raj Parikh CancerNetwork® Santhosh Ambika Bijoy Telivala Yakup Ergün Dr. Cathy Eng Pamela Kunz, MD, FASCO Pashtoon Kasi MD, MS Myriam Chalabi Allison Rosen, MS Tanios Bekaii-Saab, MD Arvind Dasari, MD, MS Interesting that ctDNA positivity is making its way (slowly) into guidelines. Looking forward to radiographically occult MRD + studies that are starting to read out.

Fantastic lecture by Anant Madabhushi at #AACR24 - this slide shows the great need for more #pathologists across the world 🌎. AACR

Check out our scoping review of the field.. ripe for disruptive innovation

“Emerging therapeutic approaches for peritoneal metastases from gastrointestinal cancers”

If you are starting your lab, think about peritoneal metastases as an unmet scientific and therapeutic

Example of clinical workflow for AI usage (just one of many options) shared by Maryellen Giger at #AACR24
Note the bullets in red at the bottom and remember GIGO (garbage in / garbage out)
If we don't have representative data to feed algorithm, we are misusing AI #AACR2024

Lisa Newman, MD MPH Mary Beckerle AACR AdvocateCollaborative (ACE) NCCS - National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship ASCO OncoAlert 'Feedback sandwiches' ~ Dr. Bianca Islam, MD, PhD, MSc (she/her) sharing leading practices & knowledge nuggets around communicating with patients & advocates.
* Trust doesn't happen on the 1st visit
* Involve advocates in research
* Meet people where they are at
* it's not a one and done thing
#AACR24

GI Series: #ColonCancer algorithm, w/ Aparna Raj Parikh to reiterate the current landscape:

Full Discussion:
- cancernetwork.com/treatment-algo…
- Oncbrothers.com/colon-2024
-Also on the “Oncology Brothers” podcast

#OncTwitter CancerNetwork® #MedTwitter #GISM #crcsm

Screening for BRAFV600E for A022004 is free and easy. Can be done while patients are receiving adjuvant chemo. Let’s get going with screening and enrollment to this important trial!

⬇️ A primer on #ArtificialIntelligence for everyone involved in #CancerResearch to add to their “must read” list!

aacrjournals.org/cancerdiscover…

Cancer Discovery AACR Elizabeth McKenna Eli Van Allen #AACR24

FT3 Board meeting.

Just met him. Barry Stein!
Metastatic CRC (liver/ lungs) in 1995. Surgery & hepatic arterial infusion.

Amazing; it’s 2024 and he is here looking great & making a difference for others

👉Turning a diagnosis into hope for others. healthing.ca/diseases-and-c…

At #AACR24 , I presented early promising data from Innovative Cellular Therapeutics with the GCC19 coupled #CART approach. In pre-treated advanced MSS #CRC there were 2 partial responses in the first 4 patients. There is hope for #IO in this devastating disease!

Affordable Multiplexed Flu+ COVID tests are making their way to meet people where they need them most - at Home!

Terrific to see these tools getting into households as OTC.

Congrats CorDx on this Flu-COVID OTC FDA authorization

cordx.com/product/all

A mark of emotional maturity is hearing disagreement without taking offense.

Thoughtful dissent doesn't always mean you're wrong. It often means the issue is complex and your knowledge is incomplete.

Good-faith debate isn't an attack. It's an opportunity to sharpen your ideas.

Big news - congratulations Pashtoon Kasi MD, MS and team!

Grateful for ongoing mentorship from Karuna Ganesh and the opportunity to present early findings from our longitudinal study of #microbiome correlates of early age at onset and tumor sidedness in #CRC Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center University Hospitals Case Comp Cancer Ctr