Les Yonemoto, MD MBA
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Radiation Oncologist. My tweets on #CancerResearch #Cancer #Health #Medicine #Oncology #RadOnc T/RT/F≠Endorsement/Advise
Tulsa, OK
Joined July 2009
Cancer is a disease of the genes in the cells of our body that malfunction, causing them to grow and divide when they should not—or preventing them from dying when they should. These abnormal cells can become #cancer.
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Texas declares measles outbreak over
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The measles outbreak centered in West Texas – one of the largest and deadliest in centuries – has ended, state health officials announced on Monday.
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News not to lose sleep over. 💤 An earlier sleep schedule, along with a consistent sleep duration, appeared to be associated with an uptake in next-day physical activity, according to a study
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Sleep and physical activity (PA) are pillars of health. However, the temporal dynamics between these two behaviors remain poorly understood. This r...
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#COVID-19 #vaccinations saved millions, with greatest benefits seen in older adults, new study suggests
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This comparative effectiveness study analyses the number of lives and life-years saved worldwide among those who had been vaccinated during the COVID-19 pandemic 2020-2024 years.
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E(gg)xciting news! Research “suggests diets including eggs, especially the yolk, may help reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease.”
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About 39% of egg benefits came from choline intake, researchers found.
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Uterine cancer incidence and mortality rates are projected to increase significantly through 2050, according to a study
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Long-term antihypertensive therapy not linked to risk for cancer, cancer-related mortality
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Regular exercise reduces depression, anxiety symptoms in pediatric patients
jaacap.org
Depression and anxiety are prevalent and rising in children and adolescents, prompting interest in exercise as a potential therapeutic intervention. The aim of this systematic umbrella review and...
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Number of deaths attributable to heart disease declined in U.S. over the past 50 years
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Long-term air pollution exposure linked to increased risk for acute lower respiratory infections requiring hospital care https://t.co/VbH4ob9gDq~
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Hypertension is the most common chronic condition among U.S. adults aged 85 and older
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Watch your 💤 😴 Napping behaviors linked to increased mortality risk in middle-to-older age patients
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AbstractIntroduction. Self-reported daytime napping is associated with various adverse health outcomes. We examined whether actigraphy-measured objective d
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Exercise improves survival rates in patients with colon cancer, study finds | New England Journal of Medicine
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Preclinical and observational studies suggest that exercise may improve cancer outcomes. However, definitive level 1 evidence is lacking. In this phase 3, randomized trial conducted at 55 centers, ...
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The median time to treatment initiation is increasing across cancer types, and this appears to be driven by an increase in stage I cancer diagnoses, according to research https://t.co/ULu3iApeBU~
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PURPOSEAs the complexity and need for cancer care services continue to grow, time to treatment initiation (TTI) has been increasing across cancer types. Presently there are no comprehensive analyses...
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Anti-inflammatory diets linked to reduced risk of Alzheimer disease-related death
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Higher DII levels were significantly associated with elevated AD mortality risk, highlighting the potential role of pro-inflammatory diets in AD-related outcomes.
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Men are twice as likely to die from the stress-related heart condition commonly called ‘broken heart syndrome’ compared to women. Formally known as Takotsubo cardiomyopathy.
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Adding olaparib to neoadjuvant chemotherapy improved survival in BRCA-mutated breast cancer Neoadjuvant PARP inhibitor scheduling in BRCA1 and BRCA2 related breast cancer: PARTNER, a randomized phase II/III trial | Nature Communications #BCSM
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Nature Communications - Toxicities limit combination of PARP inhibitors (PARPi) and chemotherapy in patients with germline BRCA1 and BRCA2 pathogenic variant (gBRCAm) breast cancer. Here, the...
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Shingles vaccine may reduce risk of heart disease and stroke
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Radiotherapy protects the hearts of women with breast cancer #BCSM Coronary inflammation and cardiovascular risk in breast cancer after radiotherapy
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Radiotherapy (RT) is known to reduce the rate of disease recurrence following breast-conserving surgery in patients with breast cancer, but also entails ir
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Smoking rates and cervical cancer screenings are trending down in the U.S. #GynCSM
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