Biliary tract cancer remains the GI primary site par excellence for genomic characterization so that we can surface actionable mutations, cc: Aparna Raj Parikh Rachna Shroff, MD, FASCO Milind Javle
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I try to do a safe handoff to the PCP and educate the patient on “red flags” so that they can always contact me or return to GI oncology clinic to investigate worrisome symptoms, e.g. unintentional weight loss, severe abdominal pain, bleeding, new-onset jaundice, etc…

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And also, I use the word “cure” here to mean “durable remission” but with some disease biologies I can be reasonably confident after a years-long period of surveillance that recurrence is vanishingly unlikely

They say breaking up is hard to do but there’s no smile quite like that of a patient cured of cancer who doesn’t need their oncologist any more

It’s giving AMA

When you infuse vanc too quickly

🚨 LIFE HACK 🚨
the nutritional value of ONE glass of whole milk = FIFTY glasses of 2% milk 🤯

Tumor board today, this has officially gone too far

“Show me Pinky AND the brain”

Actual footage of me as a med student on my ortho rotation