Nine outstanding journalists were honored with the AACR June L. Biedler Prize for Cancer Journalism during the Opening Ceremony at #AACR26. Learn more about their prize-winning stories: www.aacr.org/about-the-aa...

It should be approved immediately, and probably should have already been available on compassionate use.

In a trial, metastatic pancreatic cancer patients on the medicine lived twice as long as those on chemotherapy. www.statnews.com/2026/04/13/r...

5 𝐃𝐀𝐘𝐒 𝐋𝐄𝐅𝐓 ⏲️ Nominations for the 𝐘𝐯𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 2026 officially close on 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 1, 2026. More details🔗https://bit.ly/4dfzRtl Nominate now bit.ly/4uUMBfh #YvonneAwards2026 #OncoDaily #GlobalOncology #CancerLeadership #Innovation #PatientCare #ASCO2026

As we self-destruct, China moves ahead. Fewer grants were awarded this year. A recent survey of #NIH funded scientists revealed that they had to close their labs, reduce work. Fewer grants = fewer grad students = slow innovation This is on Jay Bhattacharya et al. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

My lab at Duke is dedicated to understanding immune evasion during metastasis in colorectal cancer and the development of biomarker-selected immunotherapies. Learn more at our website here! www.thedevitolab.org

Our first-line immunotherapy-only trial in Stage IV MSS CRC (BBOpCo) is pushing boundaries, changing lives, and is only the beginning. It is a foot in the door for an IO resistant disease, paving the way for novel biomarkers/combinations. Read Spencer’s story here: www.cbsnews.com/news/colon-c...

Yes. Please don’t do a coffee enema. Especially while neutropenic from chemo 😳

Crush CRC is about to start!!! What a turnout on a beautiful day!

A tomahawk missile costs the taxpayers the same amount of money as one five-year major NIH research grant. Remember that every time they tell us one of those missed the target, blew up paintings of enemy aircraft or tanks, or was the fifth and unnecessary hit on the same target.

There is still time to join the 5K next week!

Its March and that means colorectal cancer awareness month #crc

Including my former colleague Rich Carmona. thehill.com/opinion/heal...

My incredible patient, a young mother who has overcome a stage IV, MSS CRC diagnosis is featured on Duke's Faces of Research. She has only been treated on clinical trials, exhibiting a complete response to immunotherapy in the second line setting. today.duke.edu/2026/02/face...

Another life lost too young to colorectal cancer, RIP James Van Der Beek. The time for better prevention, screening, and treatment is now. #CureCRC

“I am shocked and appalled,” one NCI scientist said. “We are moving funds away from so much promising research in order to do a preclinical study based on nonscientific ideas. It’s absurd.”

The CRUSH CRC 5K is just over a month away! join our team here: www.supportdukehealth.org/site/TR/Colo...

🚨 #REVIEW #PROGRESS 🚨 Fucosylation—the attachment of the dietary sugar L‑fucose to glycoproteins & glycolipids—is frequently altered in cancer. Bitaraf et al. outline its role in tumour progression and therapeutic response. 📖 👇

Thanks to @medpagetoday.com for interviewing me about our recent @jco-asco.bsky.social commentary on how medications can influence immunotherapy! www.medpagetoday.com/hematologyon...

I appreciate the write up from @dukemedschool.bsky.social on our recent @jco-asco.bsky.social commentary regarding how common medications can interact with immunotherapy! corporate.dukehealth.org/news/over-co...

My mom ran the HIV prevention program for Hillsborough county (before it was shut down by Jeb Bush) which was one of my first volunteering experiences, inspiring me to pursue medicine. I witnessed so much pain, and many people are still suffering - the depth of this cruelty cannot be overstated.

New @naturemedicine.bsky.social The power of our mind to shape immune response, as seen in a randomized trial of trained neurofeedback for increased reward activity. More positive expectation-> more antibody response nature.com/articles/s41... nature.com/articles/s41...

Anti-PD-1 > Anti-PD-L1, due to the existence of PD-L2. It may explain why PD-L1 is such a meh biomarker in many tumors, too. ascopubs.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Here is our publication in @jco-asco.bsky.social! We describe how common medications impact immunotherapy, how this affects practice and patients today, and outline ways to leverage this knowledge toward improved patient as well as our understanding of tumor immunology. ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/...

For the first time, the five-year survival rate for all cancers has reached 70 percent, according to a new report, a trend that reflects the effectiveness of early prevention and detection strategies, and advancements in treatment and care, experts say. https://wapo.st/45T6Zm3

Here is our publication in @jco-asco.bsky.social! We describe how common medications impact immunotherapy, how this affects practice and patients today, and outline ways to leverage this knowledge toward improved patient as well as our understanding of tumor immunology. ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/...

I don't think you non-science people realize what it takes to get a grant funded by NIH. Started experiments in Sept 2021 to generate 3 new mouse mutants to model human disease. Prelim dara shows they have relevant disease phenotypes worthy of study. Need a small grant first to characterize /1

🗨️ “Vaccines have done more to improve public health than any other medical intervention.” A Viewpoint focuses on cancer vaccines and the future of immunotherapy: spkl.io/63322AYP7k

For every trainee who succeeds at getting some super difficult experiment to yield interesting results, there are another dozen who fruitlessly spun their wheels for years. My advice: explore many technically feasible experiments and follow up on interesting leads

High fat diets “ready the soil” for cancer to grow in the liver. This has been inferred to many degrees for years but its good to see some mechanism: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Americans & Europeans needlessly exposing African babies to preventable diseases just to see if they can find something that would justify their preexisting antivaccine beliefs is not only unscientific and actually anti-science, it is very much reminiscent of colonialist, racist human rights abuses

At the colorectal cancer alliance summit, where the goal is very, very clear:

Important PSA:

Prasad, Makary and others who claim that COVID19 vaccines killed 10 children are not telling the truth. According to @jeremyfaust.bsky.social, the committee that worked on this question reported that there were ZERO deaths that they were certain were caused by the vaccines. Well worth reading.

#NeutrophilPower! @dcerezowallis.bsky.social, Rubio-Ponce, Ballesteros, Ng, @drusqui.bsky.social &co present @nature.com NeuMap, a neutrophil atlas across health & disease states in mice (& humans)! So happy to see this out! 💪💪💪 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

The biggest clue to cranks that there is no vaccine conspiracy is that Doctors and Scientists continue to vaccinate their own children at record rates.

Save the date: Saturday, March 14th, 2026 join us for the CRUSH Colorectal Cancer 5K at The River Church in Durham. Support our patients, advocates/caregivers, researchers, and community at this incredible event - You will not want to miss our speakers!

"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism. Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.

Prostaglandins in tumor immune response are often overlooked (a ‘been there done that’ mentality) - but there remains tremendous therapeutic opportunity in understanding this fundamental pathway.

Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Amid federal funding cuts- and often controversial changes in guidance, 15 state and territorial leaders have come together to create the Governor’s Public Health Alliance. Here’s what to know about the new coalition.

#Review🚨 Spicer & team highlight our recent understanding of neutrophil extracellular traps #NETs biology in cancer and emphasize both the translational data available and the need for further clinical trials evaluating NETs and NET-directed therapies. 📖 👇

A Consensus Statement in Nature Reviews Immunology clarifies the existing subset-based nomenclature for T cells. It also proposes an alternative modular nomenclature that is designed to be brief and flexible and to avoid ambiguity and unwanted implications. go.nature.com/3Xzfoqb #immunosky 🧪

..cross your 't's folks.. here's how! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

ICYMI: Prostate tumor–mediated IFNG signaling primes myeloid cells in bone premetastatic niche for immunosuppressive IL-10 signaling Mindy K Graham @mindykimgraham.bsky.social & team analyze a published sc-RNA-Seq dataset involving metastatic tumors of the bone: www.jci.org/articles/vie...

Great. "Since the full scope of Nazi crimes was revealed, eugenics has fallen deeply out of fashion. Yet if the term has become taboo, some of the practices associated with it have not. Today we are witnessing the emergence of what could be called libertarian eugenics." www.ft.com/content/23e9...

Way to call out these thieves, perfect line.

My overview of MSI-H colorectal cancer management post ASCO and ESMO, aka “the ATOMIC diss track,” is up on VuMedi: www.vumedi.com/video/manage...