Find out how #DELFI is collaborating with @CityofHope to help expand access to lung cancer screening in under-resourced Los Angeles communities. Learn more: bit.ly/4aQDAJY

In which Gary Shteyngart proves (again) that his alchemy works on any topic. Extra points for finding a way to write-off the tab at the Lobby Bar.
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Caption contest

Editorial by Peter B. Bach, MD: Late-Stage Cancer End Points to Speed Cancer Screening Clinical Trials—Not So Fast ja.ma/3VL036c #AACR24

Signs of life at X

Today, City of Hope, @americancancer and #DELFI Diagnostics announced a collaboration to utilize DELFI’s FirstLook Lung to help improve screening rates in underserved communities in Los Angeles County. Learn more about this investigator-led study: tiny.cc/yi7mxz

“We cant have the FDA become a Yelp for drugs”. Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves #statsummit

via @NYTimes they missed all sorts of good dad joke headline choices, Unilever scoops out Ben and Jerry’s business unit. nytimes.com/2024/03/19/bus…

Excessive alcohol drinking drove about 488 deaths per day during the pandemic, CDC says | CNN

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Oh this is going to be a ride. ⁦Sloane Crosley⁩ riffing on AK in opening graf of Grief is for People.

AbbVie CEO Gonzalez to step down after a decade fiercely defending Humira statnews.com/2024/02/20/abb…

Today we announced the availability of our fragmentome-based RUO cancer monitoring assay, DELFI-TF, & a new collaboration with Immunocore to explore this assay as an early predictor of benefit from treatment with their ImmTAC-based therapies. Read more: prnewswire.com/news-releases/…

Susan Tousi leaves Illumina to head cancer liquid biopsy startup Delfi.

⁦Jonathan Wosen, Ph.D.⁩ talked to her. Read it here. statnews.com/2024/01/04/ill…

Some books I loved in '23 (Stacie Dusetzina Peter Neumann)
- All the beauty in the world (@PBringley)
- Deliver me from nowhere (@WarrenZanes)
- Number go up (@zekefaux)
- Save the cat (@savethecat)
- The guest (by Emma Kline)
- Bird by bird (@annelamott)

TY WH/Dr. Collins for pursuing subscription based model for Hepatitis C elimination (and for the shoutout to our work). Approach fixes a mkt failure and may greatly reduce burden from disease. Here is some history of the approach: drugpricinglab.org/story/how-a-ne…
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TY The Cancer Letter. There r two distinct & complimentary liquid bx cancer screening approaches:
- focused for under-screened (but recommended) cancers
- broad for many cancers
Differences in sensitivity imply each saves about the same number of lives. cancerletter.com/guest-editoria…

What a terrific way to start out a Friday. Vanderbilt Health National Cancer Institute
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Well look what happened. An exciting new biotech working on small molecule therapies had a big raise. Maybe the IRA didn’t actually kill innovation in small molecules?

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Different goals for focused vs broad screening with liquid biopsy #ASCOQLTY23

Judi Dench was on Graham Norton last night to push her new book about her life and work with Shakespeare. After making the point we quote Shakespeare daily without knowing it, this happened: