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Biostatistician at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Special interest in prostate cancer, risk prediction, patient-reported outcomes, decision-making.

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Joined February 2020
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Andrew Vickers
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With my kids after Robin (bottom left) wins Gold at U24 Ultimate Frisbee World Championshps
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Note how "IV magnesium associated with less AKI" in the paper becomes "IV magnesium reduced AKI risk" in the tweet.
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Yüksel Ürün
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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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"Patients with grade group (GG) 1 on biopsy can have higher grade disease on surgery. So GG1 = cancer". But also true of benign: "Patients with benign on biopsy can have higher grade disease on surgery".
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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.
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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".
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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 @jimhumd: Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Rules N.I.H. Grant Cuts Illegal, Orders Funds Restored via @N….
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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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Andrew Vickers
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Psychometricians develop questionnaires, then require permission to use / modify. Is there any other scientific methodology, whether lab (eg PCR), statistical (eg ttest), design (eg factorial), psychologic (eg cognitive debrief), where originators demand such permission?.
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RT @19joho: Let’s just all agree to accurately quote him.
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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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Current "informed consent" policies on PSA-screening lead to higher incidence of metastatic prostate cancer in socioeconomically deprived neighborhoods
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What is the best evidence that presence of cribriform improves our ability to risk stratify prostate cancer? Please send citations to papers showing e.g. improvement in discrimination of a standard nomogram.
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Have presented “Replace Gleason score with quantification of pattern 4 (after suitable research)” to > 30 different prostate cancer groups. Despite radical premise – change fundamental basis of treatment – remarkably little push back: it just seems kind of obvious to most folks.
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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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Major systematic review on PSMA PET in prostate cancer concludes "PSMA PET cannot be used alone to determine the need for lymph node dissection (LND)." Time to end the practice of negative PSMA PET = no LND
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