Abstracts Sunday at 2 and Monday at 2 about IBC

Excited about our @mdanderson.bsky.social Inflammatory Breast Cancer abstracts at #AACR26! Great job from our IBC lab teams! @debeblab.bsky.social

What Happened After a Teacher Ditched Screens — The Atlantic Why one early adopter of computers in classrooms has decided to toss them

More of this!! apple.news/ABwts1avMTta...

I realized watching this that has ruined me for nasa.

Team posing

Elevator selfie

Awesome nerd day today with our amazing and fun TRIUMP IBC Team talking science and updating our advisory board! @debeblab.bsky.social @annalee-nguyen.bsky.social @mdanderson.bsky.social @utaustin.bsky.social #bcsm #cansky

U.S. officials had to ‘beg’ to get LaGuardia crash investigator past Houston TSA — Houston Chronicle The National Transportation Safety Board had to

Ironic the specialists to investigate the LaGuardia crash can’t get there because air travel is such mess. apple.news/AnhIPNeGBTHO...

Happy to share our new work on CCR7 expression profiles in IBC tumors and models. It is a beginning with more functional and protein work needed. But we’re intrigued and will continue to explore. #ibcsky #cansky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Holy shit we might have a cure for sickle cell anemia

lots of jarring statistics and heartbreaking stories I could share from this story, but this particular anecdote made me tear up when @jonathanwosen.bsky.social first shared this story with me

For more details from our survey of ~1000 nih-funded researchers, read the report below

A symposium synopsis *Money Matters: Co-Creating Financial Interventions with Patients, Families, Clinicians, and Communities to Increase Reach Submission Type Symposia Topic Research Submitter Bridgette Thom Affiliation University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill Participant(s) Donald Rosenstein (Co-Chair), Bridgette Thom (Chair), Lauren Ghazal (Speaker), John Salsman (Speaker), Echo Warner (Speaker), Austin Waters (Speaker), Stephanie Wheeler (Speaker), Fumiko Chino (Discussant) SUBMISSION DETAILS Primary Category Social/Practical Problems (resources, financial, insurance, support) Abstract Population Pediatric/AYA, Adult, Geriatric/Aging Adults, Across a Lifespan, Minority and Underserved Overall Symposia Description Cancer-related financial toxicity (FT) can yield negative psychosocial, material, and behavioral impacts on patients and their caregivers. Previous research has produced a robust body of evidence on FT risk factors and consequences. More recently, work has shifted toward prevention and mitigation of FT. Efforts to reduce FT must be informed by the voices of those most impacted-patients and caregivers-and incorporate the perspectives of those clinicians tasked with intervention delivery. In this symposium, we will describe five research studies designed to co-create FT interventions with patients, families, clinicians, and communities.

What does it mean to co-design cancer care 💰🏥 interventions? Who should be involved and how does it work?

Excited to speak today at #APOS2026 as part of this all star panel of #financialToxicity experts.

Starting 10:15am today
Studio 8-9 (2nd Floor)

🙌 Dr @bthomphd.bsky.social

Proud to advocate for patients, clinicians and researchers who want to see better treatments and a cure for #peripheralneuropathy. The Foundation for PN has had massive growth over the last year, and moving toward an exciting 2027 symposium! 🧪🧪

#Medsky🧪 #Oncosky The study findings suggest that there are therapeutic opportunities to eliminate disseminated tumour cells ( DTCs) , separately from treatments aimed at primary tumours, and GR inhibition is one promising target.
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Finding the Magic, Just in Time (Published 2025)

Another amazing life story cut short by inflammatory breast cancer. I found Clare’s NYT podcast and article unexpectedly, while scrolling last year. I loved hearing she had found love. And I’m so sorry she didn’t get more time. Rest in peace Clare. #IBC #cansky
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/p...

Eisenhower

Private money cannot replace public funding of science Who should pay for American science? In the current political climate, many are looking to the private sector to compensate for cuts in public funding. At the Harvard School of Public Health—particula...

A response to the opinion that private $ can replace the NIH.

Businesses are not charities. They work on profit margins. Decades of $ is essential for research to progress from an initial discovery to treatment. Most of the dirty work goes on in academic labs.

🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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I’ve been emailing a ton of politicians and their staffers recently, and they NEVER respond outside of work hours. Don’t they know they can do it as long as they put a disclaimer at the end??

When I Got Aggressive Cancer At 29, I Couldn't Believe What My Friends Began To Imply About My Diagnosis - HuffPost #cansky

Black-and-white portrait of Dr. Jane C. Wright (1919–2013), pioneering Black surgeon, oncologist, and "mother of chemotherapy," seated at a laboratory workbench in a clinical research setting. She wears a white lab coat over a dark top and gazes directly at the camera with a composed, focused expression. In front of her is a large compound microscope with multiple objective lenses, adjustment knobs, and a stage, positioned prominently in the foreground. Her left hand rests near an open notebook or lab record book on the table, while stacks of papers or slides are visible nearby. The background shows softly blurred lab equipment and shelving, evoking a mid-20th-century medical research environment.

"Mother of Chemotherapy" Dr. Jane Wright died #OTD in 2013.

+ Helped shift cancer treatment from palliative care to modern chemotherapy by establishing methotrexate as a foundational treatment for breast cancer in 1951
+ Only woman co-founder, American Society of Clinical Oncology #WomenInSTEM #BHM

Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus, researchers say A Stanford University team have tested their nasal spray vaccine in animals but still need to do human clinical trials.

A single nasal spray vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus, as well as bacterial lung infections, and may even ease allergies, says U.S. researchers.
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When I was in Houston this week, I stopped by a coffee shop that employs people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

It can seem like a small thing, but as a child psychiatrist, I know how important it is for all people to feel supported, seen & welcomed at work 🌱

‘Shattered’: US scientists speak out about how Trump policies disrupted their careers Researchers lay bare the human toll of lay-offs, funding cuts and attacks on science one year after the president’s return to the White House.

The work done at federal agencies went unacknowledged b/c we were used to qualified experts making decisions. You don't create experts out of thin air.

"The beauty of academic research is that people could stick w/ hard problems for a long time to make progress."

🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

MD Anderson and SOPHiA GENETICS Announce Strategic Collaboration to Accelerate AI-Driven Precision Oncology - OncoDaily MD Anderson and SOPHiA GENETICS Announce Strategic Collaboration to Accelerate AI-Driven Precision Oncology / cancer, Donna Hansel, J. Bryan, MD Anderson, MD

MD Anderson and SOPHiA GENETICS Announce Strategic Collaboration to Accelerate AI-Driven Precision Oncology

@mdanderson.bsky.social

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#OncoDaily #Oncology #Cancer #Health #Medicine #MedTwitter #MedEd #MedOnc #MedNews #MDAnderson #SOPHiAGENETICS

Black and white blue eyed cat on a white bed spread.

Happy Caturday from sweet Higgs. #caturday

You can’t import another country’s vaccine policy without first importing their actual healthcare system.

Our vaccine recommendations fill structural gaps in our healthcare system, which is widely regarded as fragmented, inaccessible to many, and riven with inequalities.

How the CDC's vaccine guidance changes could affect your next pediatrician visit The CDC on Monday dramatically reduced the number of vaccines it recommends for all children. Here’s what parents should know.

Many doctors rely on an automated system that flags when a patient is due for a vaccine based on the CDC recommendations. The system does not flag vaccines that fall into the shared decision-making category meaning a child may miss a life-saving vaccine.
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RFK Jr.’s Next Move Is What Anti-Vaxxers Have Been Waiting For — The Atlantic Nothing seems to be stoppingthe health secretaryfrom driving America over a vaccine cliff.

RFK Jr.’s Next Move Is What Anti-Vaxxers Have Been Waiting For - The Atlantic apple.news/AOXesItUBQ7u...

Tennessee actually just did something amazing for women | Arwa Mahdawi The state has created the first registry in the US to track repeat domestic violence offenders

Tennessee--consistently in the top 10 states for domestic violence homicides--created the first US registry to track repeat DV offenders. Savanna's Law: named for Savanna Puckett, killed by her ex-bf, who suffocated her dog & had a history of DV & stalking. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Shows a colon with a brown cancer. Exosomes are packages coming off the cancer in purple and grey. Cell free DNA also is floating.

Blood Test Identifies Colon Cancer in Adults Ages 20-35 With 98.5% Accuracy

Study: An Exosome-Based Liquid Biopsy for the Detection of Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer: The ENCODER Multicenter Study buff.ly/xi4fYNY

#medsky #GIsky 🛟🧪

To me it makes sense that incidence and arguing increased in part due to sweeping in the last bucket, I can see my family in that last bucket. Maybe a stretch but the benefit of SSRI is night and day & not anti-depressive- maybe b/c it makes up for fewer synapses? Stretch hypothesis but adds up.