Alastair Thompson
@ProfAMThompson
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Breast cancer surgeon & professor @BCMCancerCenter @StLukesHealthTX Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center #BreastCancer #SurgicalOncology #BreastSurgery @BCMHouston
Houston, TX
Joined October 2018
Learn more about the new ANGEL study and how it can enhance diagnostics and treatments for breast cancer patients. https://t.co/HiIvCvUjz6
#BreastCancer #clinicaltrials @ProfAMThompson @artidis_ag
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.@BCMCancerCenter at Baylor St. Luke’s is becoming the first hospital in the southern U.S. to use both @MagseedSurgery and @Magtrace technology, allowing us to remove tumors in one piece while preserving more tissue, improving patient outcomes. https://t.co/XwTuoVd8Ag
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.@BCMCancerCenter at @BCMHouston can now be nominated on Doximity for U.S. News & World Report’s #Cancer hospital rankings. See why the #DLDCCC’s efforts to advance #BreastCancer care are worth your vote: https://t.co/XwTuoVd8Ag
@bcmhouston @StLukesHealthMD
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These rankings wouldn't be possible without the incredible #CancerCare team at #DLDCCC at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center. @usnews has ranked our Cancer program as one of the #BestHospitals in the nation. @StLukesHealthMD @BCMCancerCenter #OncTwitter
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I'm incredibly proud of the amazing work my partner-in-crime, Stacey Carter, has been involved in. She is finding new ways to bring #technology into the world of #medicine, using these innovations to get better results than historically seen.
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This study shows that the MasSpec Pen system can be successfully incorporated into the OR, allowing direct detection of rich molecular profiles from tissues with a seconds-long turnaround time that...
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New research: "Effect of Metformin vs Placebo on Invasive Disease-Free Survival in Patients With Breast Cancer: The MA.32 Randomized Clinical Trial" #BreastCancer #Oncology #ClinicalTrial @StLukesHealthMD
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01101438.
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The countdown is on! #Oncology teams at the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center will soon be making a move over to the new O'Quinn Medical Tower, where we will be able to collaborate and innovate even more for our patients. #BreastCancer #OncTwitter
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Scroll through the images to see the correlation of Perimeter OCT images to histology. It’s clear to see that the OCT images show cellular-level detail surgeons have never seen before, and it happens all in real time right in the OR. Learn more: https://t.co/2sQMVsJx1g
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What kind of features are TNBC tumors with high sTILs more likely to have? New research answers just that: "BI-RADS Ultrasound Lexicon Descriptors and Stromal Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer."
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BI-RADS ultrasound descriptors of the pretreatment appearance of a TNBC tumor can be useful in discriminating between tumors with low and high sTIL levels. Therefore, there is a potential use of...
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Performing mastectomies and breast reconstruction simultaneously means less anesthesia and quicker recovery for patients. #BreastCancer surgeons and plastic surgeons working together lead to a simpler process that is easier on the patient overall.
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Often gone unnoticed by the patient, low-risk DCIS #BreastCancer cells are only caught on mammograms. Some colleagues and I asked if these abnormalities are worth removing.
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The issue of overdiagnosis and overtreatment of lesions detected by breast screening mammography has been debated in both international media and the scientific literature. A proportion of cancers...
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This day (and every day, in my opinion) should be celebrated by those I have walked through these halls and had challenging conversations with. You all make me better, and I am blown away by the bravery I see day in and day out. #BreastCancer #NationalCancerSurvivorsDay
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New finding from researchers that the HER2 suppresses the NR2F1 gene, allowing pre-cancerous cells to move to other organs of the body where they can become cancerous. #BreastCancer #BreastCancerResearch
Scientists shed new light on how early stage breast cancer spreads to other organs
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Research is meant to help, whether it directly affects a patient or not. Share your work with others. Congratulations to researchers for developing a computational approach that enables spatial mapping of single-cell data within tissues.
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A new computational approach successfully combines data from parallel gene-expression profiling methods to create spatial maps of a given tissue at single-cell resolution. The resulting maps can...
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During chemotherapy treatment, a patient’s appetite could increase or decrease compared to what it was before. Share these tips with your patients.
Receiving a breast cancer diagnosis comes with many questions. One of those questions is what food people should eat and avoid while having breast cancer treatment, and how their diet may change. https://t.co/ifFfN6cwX4
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New research, "Mid-treatment Ultrasound Descriptors as Qualitative Imaging Biomarkers of Pathologic Complete Response in Patients with Triple-Negative Breast Cancer." #CancerResearchMonth #BreastCancer
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This study aimed to investigate mid-treatment breast tumor ultrasound characteristics that may predict eventual pathologic complete response (pCR) in triple-negative breast cancer; specifically, we...
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New research, "A model combining pretreatment MRI radiomic features and tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes to predict response to neoadjuvant systemic therapy in triple-negative breast cancer." #CancerResearchMonth #BreastCancer
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A predictive model combining pretreatment MRI radiomic features with TIL level on pretreatment core biopsy improved accuracy in predicting pCR to NAST in TNBC patients.
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It's #NationalCancerResearchMonth, and I want to show an appreciation for every oncologist, researcher, and research assistant I have had the pleasure of working with. The team at @BCMCancerCenter is incredibly talented and brilliant.
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Despite #COVID19 challenges, BSLMC #RoboticHeart surgery program has outperformed most US heart centers & remains the fastest growing robotic cardiac surgery practice in the country. 0 to 300 in 3 years! #WeLeadTheWay @BCM_Surgery @bcmhouston @Texas_Heart @StLukesHealthMD
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New research to better understand why some women diagnosed with #DCIS may not have benefitted from treatment: "'Is it cancer or not?' A qualitative exploration of survivor concerns surrounding the diagnosis and treatment of ductal carcinoma in situ. https://t.co/v1fBmrZDeF
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In a large, national sample, participants with a history of DCIS reported confusion and concern about the diagnosis and treatment, which caused worry and significant uncertainty. Developing strateg...
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