Poornima Rao
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Surgical Oncologist, mother, wife, sister, daughter, friend, colleague, and educator, in no particular order. Tweets are my own.
California, USA
Joined October 2013
🚨 Wow! #ASCO25 @ASCO was absolutely massive! 10 @NEJM papers published simultaneously 👉 all practice-changing studies ! 🔬✨🧵 See below for these studies 👇@oncoalert
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Thinking about all MS4s today. 🤞🏼that the system works for you #Match2025
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1/ After residency at Mass General Hospital, I reported to Atlanta to meet my fellow CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service Officers. I have never felt so intimidated by my peers The best and the brightest, they were star clinicians, had served in disaster zones; MD/PhDs and MSF.
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On this #MemorialDay, we honor those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for their country. To all current and former military surgeons, we thank you for your service.
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Predictors and rate of long term (>5yrs) survival (LTS) in resected #PancreaticCancer? #PANCPALS 🔑 25 studies, 27091 pts: 18.3% LTS ➡️ https://t.co/QMb3YGdLyn
#Predictors of #LTS: sex, BMI, preoperative levels of CA19-9, CEA, and albumin, neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio, tumor
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Late to the celebration! Amazing lifetime of work to get this into patients! Kudos to the NIH team through decades of work!
JUST IN: Iovance’s lifileucel Receives @US_FDA Accelerated Approval for Advanced Melanoma
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Happy #MatchDay to the incoming intern class of general surgery residents! Welcome to #TeamSurgery! #Match2024 #MatchDay2024 #MatchWeek #SurgEd #MedEd
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Huge congratulations to @DrSCohen for receiving McGuire-Zimskind award for excellence and leadership. So well deserved! #Advocacy #WomensHealth #SUFU24
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The 2023 @ASCRS_1 Clinical Practice Guidelines for #RectalCancer just dropped in the Jan '24 @DCRjournal issue. So much hard work went into this from all authors. Topics covered in depth: -TNT -Watch-and-wait -TaTME -Mgmt intraperitoneal rectal cancers https://t.co/crhRH1t6Qs
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May your holiday season be filled with an abundance of light and love 💙🌟 We are incredibly grateful for the unwavering support from our patients, staff, and the Orange County community as we join together to bring hope and healing to those who need it most. #HopeLivesHere
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We're proud to share that @ednacukierman, PhD, Co-Director of @FCCCGreenberg, Co-Leader of the Cancer Signaling and Microenvironment Research Program at Fox Chase was recently awarded the @AmericanCancer Wilmott Family Professorship in Pancreatic Cancer! https://t.co/1URnIgztwu
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As a boy I loved to watch #JFK’s press conferences. I didn’t want to be him—an impossible dream—but I wanted to be in the press corps asking him questions. We all loved our country. We were inspired by his presence, wit, ideals. Hope for us didn’t die with him, but innocence did.
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Crazy!
This is absolutely heartbreaking and terrifying that it could happen to anyone. Please get this video to your loved ones. https://t.co/DDTocDtNNz
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Absolutely thrilled to share that @TempleUniv/@FoxChaseCancer and @Hunter_College have secured a $13.3 million grant renewal from the @theNCI. This funding has been a game-changer in tackling health disparities, and I'm eagerly anticipating its ongoing, impactful work.
We’re honored to be continuing our partnership with @FoxChaseCancer and Hunter College! This five-year, $13.3 million competitive grant renewal from @theNCI will help continue important work addressing cancer health disparities. Read more at: https://t.co/j7edxMyHa1
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Finally!! We’ll be moving to activate @UHhospitals and begin enrolling patients in this important study ASAP! @JEvaSelfridge @TedTeknosMD @Amitmahipal79 @lauren_henke @MadisonConces @LumishMelissa @dlbajor @colontown
Trial Activation: EA2222/PUMP, led by @michael_lidsky of @DukeSurgOnc and @DukeCancer, is a randomized phase III study of #systemictherapy with or without hepatic arterial infusion for unresectable #colorectal liver metastases. For more info: https://t.co/xBChV6GALe
#ColonCancer
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Grateful to present @drsuswarner lab data at the 29th Annual Balfour Research Symposium, yesterday! @MayoClinicSurg
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🚨🚨 Do you know why Total Neoadjuvant therapy #TNT in locally advanced #RectalCancer (LARC) is getting so much attention? Bookmark this thread 🧵- your own TNT🧨💣 ready reckoner! #MedTwitter @me4_so @somedocs @PColorectal @ASCRS_1 @ESSOnews @escp_tweets @Cirbosque
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Congratulations to ABS Director @DrJohnHStewart!
CONGRATULATIONS to our new President ELECT, @DrJohnHStewart! Professor....Surgeon-Scientist....Brilliant Leader and the list goes on!!! We look forward to your leadership, Dr. Stewart! #BlackMeninMedicine #SBASUMich2023
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Past President of the @AcademicSurgery @lubitz_carrie continues to impact change for surgeons and other healthcare professionals and I couldn’t be prouder!!! 👏🏾 be sure to read ⬇️ https://t.co/N2w7PRZ8yQ
theguardian.com
The grueling profession has long kept silent about mental distress. After losing a friend, Carrie Cunningham began telling her own story
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