Balazs Halmos
@BalazsHalmosMD
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Thoracic/precision oncology 🇭🇺🇺🇸
Ridgefield, CT
Joined June 2019
My heart sank very low today as a cancer care provider working at an institution caring for a very large number of Medicaid recipients. It is already extremely hard to face a devastating cancer diagnosis- just can’t imagine what not having a safety net to at least be able to.
The House just passed a bill that makes the biggest cut to #Medicaid in history & kicks millions off health coverage. This will have a lasting impact on the fight against cancer. Health care costs will ⬆️& those who need screening/preventive care could have to go without. (1/2).
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My endowed stool. 👇.
When you really made it in medicine!. (Looks a little melanotic … but it is mine!)
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When you really made it in medicine!. (Looks a little melanotic … but it is mine!)
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As tomorrow is 1st day of hem/onc fellowship for many- thought i’d reshare this little piece as to what i would tell myself if i were starting fellowship now (which sounds attractive… all that black hair …).☑️Stay curious.☑️Remain humble.☑️Be positive.☑️Build and enjoy your.
What could i tell to my younger self on the interview trail?.You will need to read this short piece in @OncNewsCentral to find out!.@HemOncFellows
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When you realize you overfed your hummingbird just a tad too much…. Time to put a little Ozempic into the feeder?
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Wow!!. What an amazing demonstration of the fantastic gains of the last 2 decades!. Tremendous benefits of targeted/immunotherapy (+LC screening, mol path/biomarkers, innovative pulm/surg/xrt, pt advocacy etc). And patients diagnosed today can expect even better outcomes given
Clear survival gains in treating lung cancer reflected in this @NEJM article. All pts with lung cancer treated in public hospitals in France show median survival improved from 8.5 months in 2000 to 20.7 months in 2020. No room for nihilism anymore!.
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Have to say that Medidata EDC Rave is not a system any investigator will ever rave about (now if they called it Rage…). It just reached a new level today for me as after 10+ yrs of use was just required to do a highly instructive training module on “how to activate my account”.
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DatoDxd Making ADCs Great Again?. Based on TROPION Lung01/05 pooled data for advanced prev treated EGFR mutated NSCLC.☑️With ORR>40%.☑️reasonable DOR.☑️notable but generally manageable safety profile w mucositis/ILD/dry eyes as main concerns.FDA says yes to Dato.I say: Ditto!
Datopotamab deruxtecan (DatoDXd - Trop2 ADC) now @FDAOncology approved off #TROPIONLung01 & 05 for previously treated mEGFR NSCLC . - ORR of 42.7%, mDoR 7.0 mos .- mPFS: 5.8 mos and mOS 15.6 mos.- AEs: Nausea, stomatitis, and ILD. #lcsm #OncTwitter @US_FDA
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Onc friends.My family told me i garden like an oncologist- they wanted to call it quits on this once beautiful rhododendron- while i say it still carries one flower of hope so i think it deserves a shot at 1 more line of treatment.Agree w me?
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I have a new follower.Lynparza/ Olaparib.(At 150mg dose. ). And now i am really worried…. Am i damaged DNA goods? Are my genomic scars just a little too obvious???
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What an amazing evening each year celebrating our @MontefioreNYC graduating hem/onc fellows!. Particularly special this year with 2 of them moving on to very special thor onc adventures:.@HyeinJeon_MD to MedStar/Georgetown- @StephenVLiu .and Shuai Wang to Vanderbilt
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It was exactly 30 years ago today that i left from post-Iron Curtain Eastern Europe for JFK airport and the American Dream with a suitcase + $500 of our family fortune (vanished in 1 day in a nasty US scheme called housing deposit for below studio). AIDS crisis (stuck myself 2nd
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Visiting the historic University of Coimbra (established in 1290) made me realize that academic prisons existed for centuries!. In medieval times they had cells, latrines, punishments etc. By today these academic prisons have become even more cruel in their methods and they are
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Portuguese potpourri No 3 (sometimes i think i should have become a tour manager😉)
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