
Omar Abdihamid
@HamidMD10
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Oncologist in Nairobi and at Garissa Cancer Center, Kenya| Cancer Research Fellow at Queen's University, Canada 🇨🇦
Kenya
Joined January 2012
🔔 Just Published in the journal of @ecancer The First data on the patterns of Esophageal cancer at the Garissa Cancer Center. ‼️ Late stage disease presentation ‼️ Mainly Ethnic Somalis 🚨Mainly Nomadic and rural communities Full link ⬇️ @garissahealth
ecancer.org
Landscape of esophageal cancer in Northern Kenya: experience from Garissa Regional Cancer Center Omar Abdihamid1†, Houda Abdourahman2†, Abdulsadiq Ibrahim1
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🚨 ESMO 2025 | LBA15 (AIIMS Delhi) 🧬 Low-dose Pembrolizumab in TNBC Phase II RCT: Pembrolizumab 50 mg q6wk × 3 + NACT vs NACT alone 👉 pCR 53.8% vs 40.5% (Δ 13.3%, p = 0.047) ➡️ Nearly matches KN-522 results at a fraction of the dose and cost. 💊 Grade ≥ 3 AEs: 50% vs 59.5%
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Information is key when you or your loved ones are diagnosed with cancer. You shouldn’t trust everything you read on the internet . Another new patient centers paper from our common sense oncology team @csoncol
Myth busting: is there evidence behind common precautions people take while on chemotherapy? In this paper, CSO authors discuss evidence & examples of common precautionary recommendations patients receive during treatment. Read it: https://t.co/MwDpgo2jV5
#CommonSenseOncology
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#ESMO25 BEGONIA: Dato-DXd + Durvalumab as 1L in a/mTNBC 🔹 All-comer cohort: ORR 79%, mDoR 17.6 mo, mPFS 14 mo 🔹 PD-L1–high cohort: ORR 82% 💬 In line with ASCENT-03/04 and TROPION-Breast02, supporting chemo-free ADC+/-IO as a potential new 1L strategy in mTNBC
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Thrilled to share our work from the common sense oncology consortium and my fellowship research project finally published in the European journal of cancer
Congratulations to former CSO Fellow Dr. Omar Abdihamid (first author) and collaborators for publishing a paper in the European Journal of Cancer evaluating 55 randomized clinical trials for adherence to the CSO’s principles for phase III cancer RCTs published earlier this year
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Great faculty and session thanks @AORTIC_AFRICA and @QueensGlobalOnc for having us
From research to real-world impact, join us tomorrow to discover how evidence-based approaches are transforming cancer care across Africa and beyond. Scan the QR code for a zoom link. @nazik_hammad @VanderpuyeVerna @HamidMD10 @queensoncology @fabiomoraesmd
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My fellowship work just published in the Journal of European Cancer . Thanks @queensu and @csoncol . It’s been real
Common Sense Oncology - Evaluating Phase III Cancer Trials Against CSO Principles @csoncol @HamidMD10
https://t.co/M77ta2ZuTN
#OncoDaily #Oncology #Cancer #Health #Medicine #MedX
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Bloomberg released an article highlighting efforts to reduce cancer drug doses while preserving outcomes & making treatments more affordable & accessible globally. Read it here: https://t.co/BxnkbuDdWW
#CommonSenseOncology #CancerCare
bloomberg.com
Doctors are experimenting with using lower doses of blockbuster cancer drugs. It could help hundreds of thousands of lives — if pharmaceutical companies would allow it.
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🚨 Top Breast Cancer Data – #ESMO25 🚨 From early to metastatic settings, 13 key trials shaping practice: ✅ DESTINY-Breast11, Breast05, Breast09 ✅ monarchE, NATALEE, POSITIVE ✅ ASCENT-03, VIKTORIA-1, OptiTROP-Breast02, CULMINATE-2 & more @myESMO
#esmo2025 @OncoAlert
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World Radiotherapy Awareness Day: One Voice for Radiotherapy, by @HamidMD10
https://t.co/nuHChZqe4Z
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How do we know if a clinical trial truly matters to patients? Join us Next week on critical appraisal of clinical trials, their endpoints, and how these shape decision-making for patients, families https://t.co/3DbggiDZCg…
@oncology_bg @CANCERKESHO @AORTIC_AFRICA
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Thanks @oncodaily for the shout out. Here is a link to my substack cancer blogs :
Is There Any Food Cancer Patients Should Avoid? - @HamidMD10
https://t.co/REKJLlcwRt
#OncoDaily #Oncology #Cancer #Health #Medicine #MedX
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Wrote a substack article on refugees and their neglected cancer care in east Africa . Please subscribe below and share https://t.co/w4yQ9S8PNI
@UNmigration @IOMKenya @M_Waranle @WehliyeMohamed
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Men’s health awareness month with a theme of men’s cancer care needs amid all the heavy lifting that society expects from men. Read my substack article and subscribe: https://t.co/70gk18Uh0w
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Join us on 19tj june as we break down some of the top studies presented at @ASCO 2025. @CANCERKESHO @AORTIC_AFRICA
Join us for a special CSO webinar on June 19 where we discuss some important takeaways from #ASCO25, CSO style. Registration link: https://t.co/0YLnJQY2DD
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Happy Eidd to all brothers and sisters in Islam . I wrote about the parallel story of sacrifice of Eid-al Adha and cancer world. Subscribe to my Substack https://t.co/tTUtDezb4l
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5/ ✅ We call for stronger adherence to #CSO principles across oncology trials. Let’s align cancer research with real-world value and patient-centered care. 📚 Full abstract: https://t.co/W94mzbKd37
@oncology_bg @fumikochino
#GlobalOncology #ClinicalTrials #ASCO25
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11019Background: Randomized clinical trials (RCTs) remain the gold standard for evaluating the efficacy and safety of novel cancer therapies. Some RCTs are well-designed and show meaningful improve...
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3/ Only 3 trials mentioned drug costs. These gaps show why we need trial designs that truly prioritize what matters to patients. CSO’s checklist offers a path to better: – Transparency – Practical endpoints – Affordability – Patient-reported outcomes #valuebasedcare
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2/Title: Adherence of Published Randomized Phase 3 Cancer Trials to CSO Principles Key results – Only 50% of trials justified their control arms – Just 36% justified the primary endpoint – 14% included quality-of-life as an outcome – Only 2 trials addressed long-term toxicities
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🧵1/ 🚨 Thrilled to announce the simultaneous publication of our fellowship project during #ASCO25 in #Chicago! We analyzed 50 phase 3 cancer trials published in top journals in 2023. 👇 What we found was eye-opening. #CommonSenseOncology
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