
Andrew Vickers
@VickersBiostats
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Biostatistician at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Special interest in prostate cancer, risk prediction, patient-reported outcomes, decision-making.
New York
Joined February 2020
Note how "IV magnesium associated with less AKI" in the paper becomes "IV magnesium reduced AKI risk" in the tweet.
Simple, but yet effective. Giving IV magnesium before cisplatin reduced AKI risk!.A small step that protects kidneys while treating cancer. #Oncology #Nephrotoxicity #cisplatin #OncoNephrology @JAMAOnc @OncoAlert @OncBrothers.
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RT @VickersBiostats: "Patients with grade group (GG) 1 on biopsy can have higher grade disease on surgery. So GG1 = cancer". But also true….
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RT @19joho: Sounds great. It’s good that you’ve never over promised before and the American public can trust you.
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Gleason pattern 4 quantification outperforms other prognostic markers.
Biopsy Gleason 4 Length on Prostate Biopsy can be a good predictor for early oncological outcomes after surgery. Our research @URMCUrology .
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RT @EUplatinum: 🚨New in @EUPlatinum!.📌 PSMA PET for Prostate Cancer Diagnosis & Staging by @elio_mazzone et al.🧠 This comprehensive meta-an….
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RT @EUplatinum: 🧠 Words matter in science. 📢 In their @EUPlatinum article, Vickers & Inman call for stricter labeling of clinical trials:….
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Systematic review: "PSMA PET cannot be used alone to determine the need for lymph node dissection (LND)." PSMA and anti-LND advocates: "let's use PSMA to stop doing LND".
One year later another must see episode of @gu_onc, @Tilki_De gives an excellent insight on the most controversial change on PCa guidelines: no LND!. Just got one doubt PET-PSMA staging for intermediate-unfav or just ISUP 3?. @declangmurphy .@RenuEapen.
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RT @RyanNipp: Quality of Informed Consent via #Telemedicine Compared With In-Person for Clinical #Cancer Research. .
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RT @dr_coops: Well, even though we're 3rd place after vaccines and dino diets 😆, this was a fun conversation to have about #prostatecancer….
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RT @19joho: Forgive me for not trusting your "common sense" @DrMakaryFDA . Let me know when you and @VPrasadMDMPH have any RCTs to show us.….
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RT @VincentGnanapr3: @KBGinsburg @VickersBiostats The headlong rush to do PSMA for all and change management - without the evidence it chan….
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