Andrew Johns, MD
@andrewjohnsmd
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Genitourinary Medical Oncology faculty, MD Anderson via MDA, Ohio St and Indiana. Research interests germ cell/testicular, penile and kidney cancers
Houston, TX
Joined September 2019
DLBCL treatment has gotten more complicated Back in my day it was RCHOP if relapse salvage and ASCT
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New paper out: “Prevalence of & Risk Factors for Depression, Anxiety & Burnout in U.S. Neurosurgery Residents.” The data are clear—mental health challenges in neurosurgery training are common and consequential. It’s time to treat resident wellness like we treat aneurysms and
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Strong data in metastatic ccRCC after prior PD-1 therapy 📊 • Lenvatinib + Everolimus vs Cabozantinib • PFS 15.7 vs 10.2 months (HR 0.51, p=0.02) • ORR 52.6% vs 38.6% • 1-year OS ~87% vs ~84.6% (immature) • Discontinuation for toxicity 20% vs 10.9% These results help guide
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Our clinical trial testing CD70 targeting CAR NK cells for clear cell kidney cancer that has progressed on standard treatment is now open @MDAndersonNews ! Info: https://t.co/OcJw7m0HER
@kidneycan @PavlosMsaouel @DrChoueiri @NazliDizman @OncHahn
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Big day for a rare disease 🎉🧬 The new NCCN Guidelines for Appendiceal Cancer just dropped — and they’re fantastic. For the first time, this rare and often misunderstood disease finally gets its own dedicated guidance, instead of the old “just follow colorectal cancer”
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Thank you @kyleconcannonMD @Cracking_Cancer for the opportunity to discuss testicular cancer detection and treatment! @MDAndersonNews
Click below for this week’s episode of Cracking Cancer - What is Testicular Cancer? We are joined by patient Jon Fox who speaks of his devastating metastatic diagnosis and Dr. Andrew Johns of MD Anderson who goes over the workup and treatment!
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So proud of @MDAndersonNews #radonc resident @adam_grippin for his FIRST AUTHOR NATURE PAPER w/ mentor @StevenLin_MDPhD Bc of all the media- non-medical folks in my life have asked me about it & can’t believe I know the genius behind this work! 🤩 https://t.co/GCZH6tTtDJ
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Nature - mRNA vaccines targeting SARS-CoV-2 also sensitize tumours to immune checkpoint inhibitors.
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🚨Our new paper is out today in Nature! We show that SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines can sensitize tumors to immune checkpoint blockade (ICI) — revealing that clinically available RNA vaccines may act as potent immune modulators.
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Nature - mRNA vaccines targeting SARS-CoV-2 also sensitize tumours to immune checkpoint inhibitors.
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One of many highlights this year! Great session #GU25
Standing room only for GCT session. Happy to see the enthusiasm to review new data and trial landscape. Time to finish the mission in testes/GCT! Great talks by Axel Heidenreich, @nabiladra and @DrDarrenFeldman #GU25
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🙏Honored to receive this prestigious recognition from @ASCO @ConquerCancerFd alongside brilliant colleagues! Grateful to my mentors, @DocMattCampbell & @OAlhalabiMD, & @MDAndersonNews family, for their support in rare GU cancer research throughout this journey to #EndCancer.
We are pleased to announce the recipients of 2025 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium Merit Awards to recognize first authors on top-ranking abstracts selected for presentation at the @ASCO Genitourinary Cancers Symposium, 2/13–15, in San Francisco. Congrats! https://t.co/FXg63k4ynH
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Tivozanib in heavily pretreated pts w/ clear cell RCC: retrospective analysis @mdandersonnews showed ORR 7.7%, PFS 3.8mos, benefit limited to pts w/ indolent disease and prolonged prior TKI therapy @andrewjohnsmd @docmattcampbell @pavlosmsaouel @onchahn
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⭐️Delighted to welcome Dr. Deepak Bhamidipati to our @SarahCannonDocs Early Phase Drug Development Unit in Nashville! 🎉 🌟 Recipient of the prestigious @ASCO YIA and Merit Awards, he will be a fantastic addition to our team @SCRIOncology @TheUSONetwork Nashville, TN ⭐️He
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1/5 Excited to activate this week our fourth clinical trial designed for #RenalMedullaryCarcinoma (RMC). It will also separately enroll patients with epithelioid sarcoma, another rare but deadly cancer defined by loss of the SMARCB1 tumor suppressor: https://t.co/5MH7IkrUPp
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👋This is Mohammad Jad, Postdoc. Fellow & Postdoc. Association Team Leader @MDAndersonNews, mentored by @DocMattCampbell & @OAlhalabiMD 👉Applying for #InternalMedicine Residency #Match2025 🙏Dreaming of becoming a humane #oncologist through purposeful science – excited to
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🎊 Our Latest From #BoneMets Lab & Team, now in @CRC_AACR – Dr. Eleonora Dondossola and Dr. Matt Campbell of GU Oncology @MDAndersonNews Lead⭐️S. Maksimović @dr4gut1n👉TKI activity & efficacy (cabo, lenva, axi) in orthotopic mouse models of bone-metastatic ccRCC, studying 1⃣
Recently published: Antiangiogenic #TKIs have differential efficacy in #ccRCC in bone, by Stefan Maksimovic et al. https://t.co/qYpjgtzgmt
@dr4gut1n @ED_PhD_ @mjmoussa_ @DocMattCampbell @MDAndersonNews #bonemetastasis #openaccess
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I’m excited to present our work exploring whether #COVID #mRNA #vaccines could impact #immunotherapy outcomes. Big thanks to #ESMO2024 conference organizers for sponsoring my trip with a travel award and @MDAndersonNews for highlighting this project!
At #ESMO24, our experts will be presenting their out-of-the-box uses for #Immunotherapy, including prevention, rare cancer treatments and making therapies more effective for more patients. Learn more: https://t.co/NJ0ohwNJFU
@adam_grippin @NassifElise #EndCancer
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Of all the milestones our #RenalMedullaryCarcinoma research has achieved, this is definitely a highlight. Grateful to the many people who work tirelessly to help our patients.
Heather Williams is believed to be the first pregnant patient to come to MD Anderson with stage IV renal medullary carcinoma. How Drs. Pavlos Msaouel and Bora Lim developed her novel treatment plan: https://t.co/bnveaenhnM
@naborala @Pavlos #KidneyCancer #EndCancer
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1/5 Excited to share our @MsaouelLab clinical analysis of 135 patients with #RenalMedullaryCarcinoma treated @MDAndersonNews over 20 years 👉 https://t.co/3GHbQn2FK4
#endRMC #rarecancers @KidneyCancer @renalmedullary @RmcAlliance @RMCAwareness @RareCancerRF @thermcrf @kcCURE
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