💉Reminder! Don't forget to get your yearly Flu and COVID vaccine. Cases of both will start increasing soon 📈 Check with your medical providers, local pharmacies, and/or local health departments for COVID vaccine availability. #wildtomild

Samira Daswani's presentation is about how healthcare is designed. It is also one of the best designed presentations I've seen in years. The clarity and efficiency of the deck is literally reinforcing her point about the need for improved design in healthcare. #ASCOQLTY25

Just got my registration in before the early bird deadline closed for #ASCOQLTY25. Who else is going?

We are thrilled to welcome 6 new Faculty, 3 Fellows, and 2 Visiting Faculty to PC3I! Stay tuned over the next few weeks as we introduce each new member!

"Where do those patients go when the last stop was your safety net hospitals? We don’t have another system to be able to take care of them."

Patients with prior authorization requirements are more likely to have their access to #chemotherapy interrupted- facing a 10-day delay on average. PC3I Faculty @michaelannica.bsky.social spoke with @nytimes.com on the effects of health insurers denying drug claims for patients.

Trans youth deserve the health care they need, no matter what state they live in.

For our patients and our staff throughout the greater Philadelphia region, we need SEPTA. www.votervoice.net/mobile/Chamb...

Medicaid access isn't just important, it's essential for patients' cancer care. Contact your lawmakers today and urge them to protect Medicaid, ensuring uninterrupted care for those who need it most. @ascocancer.bsky.social #ACTNetwork asco.quorum.us/campaign/115...

Abstract Submission is Open for ASCO Quality Care Symposium 2025 @ascocancer.bsky.social oncodaily.com/blog/asco-31... #OncoDaily #Oncology #Cancer #Health #Medicine #MedEd #MedOnc #MedNews #ASCO #ASCOQLTY25 #QualityCareSymposium

My message to Trump’s NIH Director? No one in America wants us to do LESS cancer research. No one is asking Trump to make it harder to cure Alzheimer's disease. Yet Trump is cutting all of this NOW and demanding an $18 BILLION cut to NIH next year. Not on my watch.

PC3I Faculty, Fellows, & staff will present 32 abstracts this weekend at the 2025 @ascocancer.bsky.social Annual Meeting. PC3I's work focuses on delivering patient-centered care, addressing socioeconomic barriers in #oncology, & applying digital interventions to improve patient care. #ASCO25

Since being sworn in to lead HHS, Kennedy has overseen significant layoffs across its agencies and canceled billions of dollars in federal grants to universities and state public health departments. https://cancerletter.com/capitol-hill/20250516_2/

This is devastating and deeply frustrating news: -No updates to cancer.gov website or NCI social media. -No updates to the Physician Data Query database. -No one to answer the patient hotline. We can no longer rely on the federal government to provide information that supports public health.

New editorial in @implementsci.bsky.social by @rsbeidas.bsky.social et al on NIH's #impsci grant terminations. This was important, peer-reviewed research on health equity, HIV, infectious diseases, etc. There will be long-lasting impacts. implementationscience.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Reminder to nominate yourself or someone else by April 18 to join PC3I's team of innovators in #cancercare! Learn more: pc3i.upenn.edu/get-involved...

'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'

Want to be part of a fantastic community working to solve the most intractable problems in cancer care today? @pc3innovation.bsky.social is currently accepting nominees for faculty and fellows! CC: @upenn.bsky.social, @pennmedicine.bsky.social, @penncancer.bsky.social

THREAD The numbers are in. @bsky.app research sharing volumes vs X Formerly Twitter In March 2024, on most days, Bluesky hosts more posts linked to research published in 2025 than X. By quite a lot. Release the Kraken... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics 1/11

"A hefty percentage of raw ingredients used to make major drugs come from China, and tariffs are expected to affect cancer and heart medicines as well as antibiotics, including amoxicillin."

"Protecting these institutions is vital—not just for scientific advancement but for the millions of patients who rely on them for hope and cutting-edge care," write Shannon McWeeney (@wondermixtape.bsky.social) and Sorena Nadaf-Rahrov https://cancerletter.com/guest-editorial/20250321_2/

Anna Jo Smith, MD, MPH (@pc3innovation.bsky.social faculty) found that a blood test is more likely to miss #ovariancancer in Black & Native American patients—revealing critical disparities in early detection & the need for more equitable #cancercare. @jama.com jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Via Abigail André on LinkedIn - please spread the word. Here are updated forms for Federal Cuts Tracker Map project, live later this week. If you're new to the project, it is an interactive map that is tracking the impacts of federal cuts around the globe. 1/x www.linkedin.com/posts/abigai...

From Abigail Andre over on LinkedIn: Federal Cuts Tracker Map will be live next week. It is an interactive visualization of impacts felt across the country as the result of federal firings, funding freezes and cuts, and program cancellations. 🧪

If you followed us on #thatothersite, give us a follow here!

New research from @erin_bange & @Ron_cology (@penncancer.bsky.social) out in @nejmcatalyst found that implementing a text message-based symptom reporting e-triage reduced time toxicity for patients with cancer @pc3innovation.bsky.social catalyst.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

New publication in @jama.com Network Open: Annual #lungcancer screening adherence associated with increased lung cancer detection rates, but decreases annually after baseline screening. Led by PC3I Faculty Roger Kim & Anil Vachani, w/ PC3I Director Kate Rendle. #lcsm #oncsky #medsky

Signs at #standupforscience #standupforsciencephilly #standupforscience2025

Get in nerds! We’re going to science! #standupforscience2025 #NYC

Headed downtown with lots of others to #standupforscience in Philly!

The amazing #womeninscience hosting the Philly @standupforscience.bsky.social rally today! Come say hit! @amandastherrien.bsky.social @dramandar.bsky.social @brookedl.bsky.social

“It’s extremely alarming that grants that have been vetted by the scientific community and deemed important and impactful to understand the world are now being cancelled because of political ideology. […] For all this talk about free speech, this is direct censorship of scientific research.”

Absolutely fascinated by this article by Oonjee Oh exploring the ethical issues around using AI within the context of #palliativecare. #medsky doi.org/10.1177/0969...

BREAKING: A judge blocked President Trump's executive order targeting access to gender-affirming care for trans people under 19 years old nationwide. This is the second time this discriminatory executive order has been put on hold in our legal challenge against it.

If you are in #Philly, we will be hosting a #StandUpForScience sign-making event this Thursday, March 6th, from 5 to 7p at Attic Brewing Company. Limited supplies will be available, but feel free to bring your own materials. Use those signs this Friday, March 7th, in Philly at 11a at City Hall!

In today's @theatlantic.com: Dozens of clinical trials – sometimes "a patient's best chance for cure, and long-term survival," could be at risk of shutting down, said Dr. Diane Simeone, director of @ucsandiego.bsky.social Moores Cancer Center. theatlantic.com/health/archi... #CancerResearch

In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine had no signs of relapse after three years. Dr. Vinod Balachandran from @mskcancercenter.bsky.social joins us to discuss the results and what they could mean for cancer treatment.

The 5-year survival rate for pancreatic cancer is 12%. Stage IV (which is when most people are diagnosed) has a 5-year survival rate of 1%. This is huge. #medsky

The #HPV vaccine has decreased high grade cervical dysplasia in the USA by 80 % in the youngest age group. Reported in today's MMWR. #MedSky + #ObGynSky. www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...

Want to learn more about @standupforscience.bsky.social ? I spoke with three of the lead organizers for a Q&A you can read here: 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/stan...

A study led by @pc3innovation.bsky.social faculty Ronac Mamtani (with PM @kerrycoughlin.bsky.social) showed it’s possible to use digital technology to safely reduce the amount of time some patients with cancer spend receiving care. #innovation #cancercare catalyst.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

A beautiful and moving piece by @rafleishman.bsky.social in @nejm.org. People who aren't in healthcare may not realize that a quantitative value is assigned to everything providers do. And they might be surprised to by the values that get assigned. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Hi BlueSky!