The ultimate “dis you?”
Typed this banger out and faxed it right to the insurance company 🤌🏻

This is so good. I am also doing a full coverage project that I started in 2020 and I am like 96% done. It’s a 16x20.

In #SanDiego we grab beers while protesting #handsoff

San Diego showed up #50501 #handsoff #sandiego

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Why would you want to make it MORE difficult for people to get much needed healthcare. WHY??
As a professional registered nurse I see that this will create so much MORE demand on already LIMITED resources advocating for those who need it. This is all cartoon villain nonsense.

The ACA was cool because you won't have a co-pay to get the cancer screening your doctor recommends.

Done, thank you.

And Republicans are all in to bring this back. They don't want people with disabilities or illnesses to get care. "If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”

This is happening tonight folks! 8pm Eastern 5 pacific!

Hey #UHC since when is Her2 confirmatory/second opinion testing for a Her2 equivocal, ki-67 of 90% breast cancer in a young Li-Fraumeni patient not urgent. I think it’s pretty life or death. #bcsm #oncsky

#SABCS24 Day 1 Highlights #CommunityOnc:

1. @FDAOncology Reviews recent approvals: #Ribociclib & #Inavolisib

2. #PADMA: HR+ ET + CDK4/6i vs Chemo 1L

3. #DB06: HR+ TDXd

4. #KN522: biomarker analysis

#OncSky #CanSky @sabcs.bsky.social @drsarahsammons.bsky.social @dr-rshatsky.bsky.social

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For those wanting to optimize their care of premenopausal HR+ early breast cancer I highly recommend watching the #SABCS24 Educational Session “Mind the Gap Breast cancer in the young.” It really reinforces the importance of ovarian suppression! Tam is not enough in so many! #bcsm #OncSky #CanSky

Health insurance industry PR is working overtime right now diverting blame to physicians for claim denials and rising costs. I feel compelled to remind everybody that Optum (UHC) is the largest employer of physicians in the US. We have never had less power in healthcare than we do right now.

Episode 5: Sequencing of ADCs for Metastatic HER2-Low Disease Kathy D. Miller, MD, and Stephanie L. Graff, MD, discuss sequencing of ADCs for metastatic HER2-low breast cancer including sequencing, toxicities, and clinical trials.

🎧 Had a great time talking with Dr. Kathy Miller about what we know [and don’t know] about sequencing ADCs. Give it a listen.
#OncSky #MedSky
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

A practical guide for ctDNA testing in #breastcancer ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/... @ethicsdoctorp.bsky.social @oncoalert.bsky.social @oncbrothers.bsky.social

Here’s How We Know RFK Jr. Is Wrong About Vaccines Children used to die of diseases far more gruesome and deadly than we remember.

Gift article. "For most of human history, half of all children died before reaching age 15; that number is down to just 4 percent worldwide, and far lower in developed countries, with vaccines one of the major drivers of improved life expectancy." Medsky www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Adventures in insurance denials.
Evicore: “This patient is allowed 3 PET scans in a year. The patient has had two PET scans this year so we have denied this third PET scan.” #oncsky #bcsm #evicore #medsky
So dumb and a waste of time.

Jimothy from UHC will be his second in command.

To learn exciting breakthroughs and data and…. also pet photos 🫣

“Bluesky is an echo chamber!”

Our Reply: Echo chamber? Nah, we prefer to call it surround sound for facts.

MEDICAID IS THE NUMBER ONE INSURER OF AMERICAN CHILDREN.

They are also going to be the ones hit hardest when herd immunity is lost for so many vaccine preventable diseases.

Matching patients to clinical trials with large language models - Nature Communications Patient recruitment is challenging for clinical trials. Here, the authors introduce TrialGPT, an end-to-end framework for zero-shot patient-to-trial matching with large language models.

'TrialGPT' A new chatGPT for clinical trials @natureportfolio.bsky.social:

- 3 steps: TrialGPT-Retrieval, TrialGPT-Matching, TrialGPT-Ranking
- Retrieval identified 90% suitable trials
- 42% time-saving in matching a patient to a trial

Like, wow
#MedSky #OncSky #LCSM
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Aw wouldn’t want to be doing anything else! I love our clinic. 💕

I give anticipatory guidance to my patients about this that they will probably see their scans before us and if there is anything urgent we will call them. There were some growing pains with this but all in all I think it’s a good thing.

Our scans release automatically due to a law in CA. We review them within 2-7 days after. We used to review next day but have had staffing issues with radiologists.

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I swore to myself that I wouldn’t join another social media platform after leaving Twitter over a year ago. Welp, so far so good #bluesky. I have missed my #bcsm feed and all the amazing people in it.

Vaccine shows promise against aggressive breast cancer | WashU Medicine Clinical trial targeted recurrence of hard-to-treat triple-negative breast cancer

Good morning, Bluesky. Today’s #GoodMorningNews: a trial at Washington University’s school of medicine has shown great results for a vaccine that would prevent recurrence for a particularly aggressive form of breast cancer. It’s a small trial, but 3 years later 16/18 participants remain cancer free