Why we need large, prospective patient cohorts to identify the clinically meaningful biomarkers: not only w detailed molecular high-throughput assessment, but also detailed patient response & tox data. (Longitudinal data needed to find resistance markers.)
1/ Racism โ talk & video about killing a fellow Congresswoman ๐:
โRepublican Rep. Paul Gosar from Congress after he posted an edited video showing him killing Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasioโฆโ
@gary_lyman
BREAKING: Calls to expel far-right Republican Rep. Paul Gosar from Congress multiply after he posted an edited video showing him killing Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. RT IF YOU THINK GOSAR MUST BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE!
#OncoAlert
Just announced:
@UWMedicine
is suspending all routine follow-up visits.
Also has started to do
#COVID19
drive-thru testing for staff to get them quick answers if they exposed anybody.
#OncoAlert
BREAKING NEWS out of Netherlands Inst of Public Health: โResults of random sample test: 4% of hospital staff infected with
#COVID19
.โ
ME: Please protect your vulnerable patients & your institutions. Test staff.
@MichaelStaehler
@BenWestphalen
In the
@COVID19nCCC
study, we adapted the simplified IMWG frailty score and showed that the highest risk group (older, poorer PS, more comorbidities) of older adults with cancer had markedly increased risk of severe COVID outcomes and death.
#gerionc
Hang on to your loved ones๐ tightly. Don't risk family thru too much work, etc. Life can change things any second. Thank you all for your great holiday tweets & many more private messages. Helped us get thru a young cousin running out of
#cancer
tx options.
#Wisdom
@fredhutch
@AccountableGOP
Compromise: A key feature of democracy. It ensures all sides get heard and that not one side rules all aspects.
GOP has abandoned this concept since Newt Gingrich. We need to realize this is 'White-Supremacy' now leveraged by all parts of the GOP (white or otherw)
#SaveDemocracy
#TurningBadintoGood
๐โจ๐ซ Be the change:
๐Avoid patient labels
๐Donโt dismiss pts symptoms - Iโve found 80-90% highly important - the rest is important psychosocially at min
๐Major Red Flags: Pts is in at out of hospital or has unexplained worsening organ dysf
#Disparities
Urgent action is needed to avert a looming humanitarian catastrophe in
#Ukraine
. CARE has partnered with
@people_in_need
to provide emergency assistance to the people of Ukraine affected by this crisis.
Quote (2) of the Day ๐Kamala Harris On Saturday๐
โCongressman John Lewis, before his passing, wrote: โDemocracy is not a state. It is an act.' โWhat he meant, was that Americaโs democracy is not guaranteed. It is only as strong as our willingness to defend it"
@gary_lyman
#ESMO18
@alexdrilon
: โThe pie keeps getting more & more subdivided.โ It is getting difficult to explore potentially clin impactful rarer biomarkers in a single tumor.
#VailWorkshop19
- The amazing Dr. Von Hoffโs final year mentor advice:
1) Time is precious
2) Make them dream big
3) Keep your own big dreams
4) Teach โem all you know
5) Pay all the praise & support forward - so they will do the same
It is an honor to be able to attend
#VailWorkshop19
- especially in Dr Von Hoffโs final year where he gave a tremendous reflection lecture rich with advice
@Dr_RShatsky
So very sorry to hear you & your whole family has
#Covid19
after 3-yrs fully free!! Exactly what happened to most our friends now. Bivalent booster is not โcutting itโ already. I so hope they make updated booster soon ๐๐ป๐๐ป!
Hope you feel better soon !!
1/ Minimization of Toxicities:
@oncology_bg
so well said. Probably the most important language bias for our ptsโ health is the incredible minimization of tox. If we misjudge the tox impact on patientsโ lives, we also misjudge the balance of benefit vs harms
#WeeklyMusings
#90
#OncoAlert
Wish could describe the urgency senior Italian ๐ฎ๐น oncologists urge us to be much more
#COVID19
proactive:
Despite screening >50 thousands: still >12-14% in ICU fully overwhelming a good systemโฆSocial distancing appears key now!
@senpattykuderer
@PergamIC
@JayInslee
#ESMO19
#oncoAlert
Dr Rugoโs elegant PD-L1 IHC assay analysis in IMpassion130
#bcsm
atezo study:
๐SP142 FDA approved: smallest N of pts, but most responsive subgr w single assay
๐Other IHC: PFS / OS โฌ๏ธ
๐2 pos IHC: PFS / OS โฌ๏ธ (correlates w TILs+)
๐Mets<<Primary PD-L1+
#ASCO19
โฆ
@DHymanMD
โฉ great summary of level of evidence for
#genomic
actionability, growth of targetability. Donโt miss these - sign clin response in patients running out of options.
#BCSM
great slide summary of high rate of late recurrence in ER+ pts. Is this dormancy vs (very slow growing dz & mostly resistant to current therapy?). Great discussion by Dr Chodosh. Many mechanism involved in dormancy & dormant cells diff gene activated vs primary.
#SABCS18
Congrats
@VivekSubbiah
for a beautiful presentation on โFrom Tissue-Agnostic to N-of-One Therapies: Evolution of the Precision Oncology Paradigmโ as well as use of poetry from Chapmanโs Homer. We are looking forward to
@PatelOncology
at tomorrowโs Grand Rounds.
1/ My wish for
#ASCO21
: We can have respectful but have real discussions. To quote Emerson: โLet me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.โ
โ Ralph Waldo Emerson
@gary_lyman
New Zealand has zero patients in the hospital for Coronavirus. This is the face of victory. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Also now contact tracing apps & apps for
#HCW
for guidance &
#PPE
management.
#ESMO19
you have a new spot in my โค๏ธ! Not just a phenomenal
#cancer
conference ๐, fantastic science๐; most importantly many practice changing THERAPIES ๐๐งฌimproving survival for patients โผ๏ธ Thank you my dear friends &
#OncoAlert
for making it particularly memorable ๐ฅฐ!!
The Affordable Care Act virtually erased racial disparities in access to timely cancer treatment. A worthy opening plenary โฆ
@ASCO
โฉ
@ASCO19
โฆ
@fredhutch
โฉ โฆ
@SWOG
โฉ
@Martha__Carlson
Thnx for raising this important matter. We value & want to include the patient voice. We have reached out to survivorship orgs, with no response to collaborate. Would be grateful for someone to attend the debate & tweet to share with the community. Please DM us for info.
โFive Feet Apartโ might be the even better women as heroine movie this weekend?
Also a good one for med profession to remember the imp of human touch. A woman who defies nihilism & typical disillusionment & changes the world around her. See what you think
โค๏ธFeeling incredibly grateful & honored of having found my husband
@gary_lyman
not only a wonderful soulmate but also intellectual male counterpart. I knew you would still do amazing things, but even I could not realize how muchโค๏ธ
Happy Anniversary โค๏ธ Love & Gratefulness alway
#ESMO21
delivered once again transformative, practice-changing new data across oncological fields
Iโm happy to join efforts with
@ADesaiMD
to select some important
#BCSM
&
#LCSM
Take Home messages from the Congress
๐ซ๐ท Hope to see you all in Paris next year!
#ESMO21
@myESMO
๐ซ๐๐ Whatever you may Celebrate๐๐๐ซ
As Tiny Tim said: "A Merry
#Christmas
to us all; God bless us. Everyone ๐๐๐!"
May the Light of Christmas bring hope, health, joy, love, friendship, and all you wish for โจ๐๐๐ซโจ
@ADesaiMD
@DrTJM_MD
@aparna96
@thenasheffect
@SWOG
Gender bias: Great data d/t societyโs models. Both (wo)man are socialized men have final say. If not, esp men but both genders can get uncomfortable. If you experience anger d/t a challenge or suggestions by a woman & yet rarely if by a man๐ definitely bias. Please work on that.
1/ My beloved US - This is not a drill. You still don't realize what you are in for. Ingenuity won't help. You are following an old playbook. Listen to these hardened Republican operatives (who gave us BUSH & PALIN). If they actively compaign against him, all Republicans should.
๐WOW๐
#ASH21
#AntiRacism
Discussion Session - what can โฆ
@ASH_hematology
โฉ do - audience interacting w ASH leaders:
๐May contemplate to score all study submissions by diversity, inclusion
๐Audience also discussing how scared all are to say wrong things & to be vilified
World BEST medevac for COVID patient.
Germany activates their flying ICU plane, an Airbus A310 MedEvac, to fly corona patients from Italy to hospitals in Germany. The plane has a capacity of 44 beds of which 16 are for high intensive care patients, and up to 25 medical staff.๐ฒ๐ฒ
@EricTopol
Have to look at study, but โplant-basedโ also means higher socioeconomic strata (ie also many better social determinants of health etc) ๐so if they didnโt do detailed adjustment for these factors thatโs a major part of it. Then diet may or may not help some
@gary_lyman
Such an honor to help guide
@ASCO
guideline recommendations such as for
#cancer
-associated
#VTE
. Feeling very fortunate to have trained with key leaders in health outcoms research/evidence-based methodologies as well as translational clinical trials on both sides of the Atlantic.
This sign needs to be in every hospital, clinic, office, store, restaurants, etc:
โThe whole world is short staffed be kind to those who showed upโฆโ๐น
This year we need to be even kinder, more generous & forgiving than last yearโฆ
@gary_lyman
@double_whammied
@fredhutch
@swog
#ESMO19
#OncoAlert
Sobering Dr Chia reminding us that we have not improved overall survival (OS) in advanced
#bcsm
(recent exception CDK4/6 inh) over last decade ๐
#ESMO19
#OncoAlert
Dr Harbeck excellent summary of non-metastatic HER2+
#bcsm
:
Key message re Neratinib: 40% serious diarrhea for 1y in adj setting is unacceptable. Limit at most, Neratinib to high risk ER+ women, where maybe there is a clin meaningful benefit in this subgr.
Otis Brawley at
@SWOG
Plenary:
39% Decline in US
#breastcancer
deaths but the decline varies by minority groups and by the state you live in. Mortality disparities only started by 1980s likely d/t screening availabilities. Similar disparities trends for eg
#colorectalcancer
๐
Fantastic
#Mentorship
advice that we need more of in our medical training. Our training has become far too dogmatic. Eg, Trainees donโt learn that they need to veer from OS data, if it does not fit with pts goals & needs.
Don't just teach your students to read.
โข Teach them to question what they read, what they study.
โข Teach them to doubt.
โข Teach them to think.
โข Teach them to make mistakes and learn from them.
โข Teach them how to understand something.
โข Teach them how to teach others.
@kniggem
Smart move Spain to mandate masks in medical facilities - we are in the 2nd biggest wave based on waste-water & 1/3 of population expected to be infected (reviewed by
@EricTopol
)
Chemo-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) in ~47% survivors long-term: Reported significantly more disability,1.8 times fall risk. Increasing symptom severity was linearly associated w functionโฌ๏ธ, disabilityโฌ๏ธ, fall riskโฌ๏ธ (all P < .05). We need to esp discuss w pts if<1-3% OS.
And symptoms significantly worsening after last neurotoxic chemo further adds complexity to being proactive about
#CIPN
#neuropathy
managment and toxicity risk reduction. Nice paper summarizing post treatment issues persisting
Objective Tox Summary๐ค
Don't Tox also need obj data in summary slides (imagine efficacy summarized as "acceptable" "favorable")? Why not 1 sentence describing %? :
1) Gr 3-5 Tox (w/o Heme)
2) Gr3-5 Tox (w/ Heme)
3) Gr5
4) Any Gr [+/- Hospitalization data]
๐๐๐A med centers loses 2 young physicians to
#COVID
-19. When does this become negligence if profit w no tests & gear? All need to pause & consider our responsibility to uphold the integrity of our med institutions, the team, our national med future.
@senpattykuderer
@OncoAlert
Congrats to everyone at
#oncoalert
Cancer And Coronavirus via
@forbes
The global medical community and even beyond coming together more closely represents already a remarkable positive effect arising from this harrowing crisisโ
@nicolekuderer
@PGrivasMDPhD
4/ European Travel
#esmo22
On the way to beautiful Italy โจ๐ฎ๐นโจ
If you ever wanted to drive through Southern Germany, Black Forest region, here you go โบ๏ธ.
โฆ
@gary_lyman
โฉ
Perfect ending to the
@ASCO
adjuvant
#breastcancer
sessions
#ASCO22
: Dr. Laura Esserman quote:
"Please, if you have biospecimens, interrogate the biology, especially when so much
#toxicity
is on the line." (speaking also of 5 yrs of ovarian suppression)
@OncoAlert
@gary_lyman
Amazing annual ritual get together with the โFounding Motherโ & โQueenโ of Cancer-associated
#VTE
(CAT). Such a privilege & trailblazer on so many levels incl creating the only CAT conf in the world
@ICTHIC
. See you in Bergamo soon at!
I am coming out of the closet: I have never seen an episode of โGame of Thronesโ. Now it even gets covered on 60-Minutes. Should I change the trend & start watching - what do you think?
Dr. Eric P. Winer on pCR: "The unfortunate part of all of this is that most of our therapies seem to deepen the response, meaning we're often only improving upon a good response and not converting someone who wouldn't have responded."
via
@TargetedOnc
From the bottom of my familyโs โค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธ including & especially my parentsโ โ thank you for your bravery & service โ this will always be appreciated during my lifetime โค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธ:
The world continues to be very much in need of a strong & powerful USA!!!
@marklewismd
Our profession needs to speak up. It is our responsibility to patients. As gov is needed to provide care for the needy, the med profession is partly responsible, if the gov does not support care that is equitable care.
In Honor of Holocaust Memorial Day: My favorite memorial site across German Parliament as a daily reminder to never again
- an extreme narcissist leader (aka no ethical boundaries) even if policies bring great economy
- switch off media as lying press
- control justice department