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. PDF www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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...

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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

"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

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. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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 🌱

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 @mdanderson.bsky.social oncodaily.com/voices/md-an... #OncoDaily #Oncology #Cancer #Health #Medicine #MedTwitter #MedEd #MedOnc #MedNews #MDAnderson #SOPHiAGENETICS

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.

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. www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-...

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

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...

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 🛟🧪

Science for the win👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻🎉🎉

Cooking a holday dinner? Save your tissues. This cutting technique slashes tears when chopping onions. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/knife-tricks-stop-onion-cutting-crying

Scientists reverse Alzheimer’s in mice and restore memory. For more than 100 years, Alzheimer’s disease has been treated as a one-way decline—but new research is aiming for a cure. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

MD Anderson researchers have identified Rb1 deficiency as a key therapeutic vulnerability for some aggressive breast cancers, including triple-negative and estrogen receptor–positive tumors. How this finding could shape treatment strategies: spr.ly/63328CZpQu #OncSky #EndCancer

Now online in Cancer Discovery @aacrjournals.bsky.social: Residual Breast Cancer Cells Co-opt SOX5-driven Endochondral Ossification to Maintain #Dormancy - by @amulyasreekumar.bsky.social, Lewis Chodosh, and colleagues doi.org/10.1158/2159...#Dormancy@pennmedicine.bsky.social @penncancer.bsky.social

Release Day! GLASS WALLS is now available in more accessible formats: paperback and audiobook. Learn how to identify workplace gender bias and how to stop it. Order here: amy-diehl.com/book

Great job by all of my trainees and team at #SABCS2025!!

Honored to moderate the outstanding local therapy session! Three trials now coalesce around 8Gy x 3 to a small preop focus as an immune engaging dose in breast cancer. Exciting space to watch! Interesting radiation analyses from Insema too. #radoncsky #cansky #sabcs2025

IBC meeting opportunity @sabcs.bsky.social Wednesday 8:30 am- Room 303B - clinical teams, advocates interested in community IBC care please come engage in a discussion on improving consistent care everywhere! #thinkibc #cansky

Trans and non-binary individuals will no longer be listed in cancer registries--even as they use tobacco products at higher rates and are screened at lower rates. #Medsky #LGBTQ #Oncosky #cancer #science #publichealth #epidemiology

Here we go. Its ALL #NIHGrant applications. Dec 8 is the new deadline. And a one page prelim data update will be accepted for all May Council submissions. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

I actually think some incremental research is crucial to effective execution. A research big bang doesn’t achieve a massive impact for patients w/o many,many incremental advances to understand the scope, limitations and nuances. Sweeping generalizations are not overly useful in research impact.

“If your doctor first treats the symptoms as an infection and they don’t improve within a week, ask for more tests, such as imaging or a biopsy, to find the cause. If redness or swelling continues, especially if you’re not breastfeeding, ask for a follow-up visit right away.”

Read how understanding and tracking recent changing trends for lobular breast cancer are important—not only to improve care for those affected by it, but also to advance NBCC’s overarching mission to end all breast cancer. https://nbcc.info/4qmyBbS

Very cool post, thanks for finding our initial paper on this issue interesting. Turns out we had another one just out, where we extend the idea of critical ignoring and relate it to the detrimental consequences of information overload: doi.org/10.1016/j.co... 1/n

Honored to be a presenter at IBC Community Connect Conference - it’s wonderful to be in the presence of so many brilliant, dedicated people. #IBCCC2025 Thank you @ibcradiation.bsky.social for bringing everyone together.

Such wonderful networking and brainstorming today at the IBC Connect and Community - we will create an email distribution to connect clinician and community teams, interested in projects and ideas to improve adherence to guidelines for IBC- Please DM if you would like to join the list! #cansky

Base-pair resolution Micro Capture-C ultra to map chromatin contacts between individual motifs within cis-regulatory elements and reveal a unified model of biophysically mediated enhancer-promoter communication @cellcellpress.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Fun lab field trip today from @mdanderson.bsky.social to @utaustin.bsky.social with @debeblab.bsky.social to see collaborators from the Maynard and Rylander labs🙌🎉🩷 So great to meet in person and discuss science to impact IBC! #oncsky #cansky

For children and teens, heart and blood vessel complications of Covid overshadow the very rare and short-term risk of vaccinations, a new report from nearly 14 million kids www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Reporter @virginiagewin.bsky.social interviewed 19 current and former US federal agency scientists about the science being dismantled at EPA, NOAA, NASA, CDC, NIH, & USGS. They say it's making America unprepared for environmental and public health crises. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

📊 A new #ESTROVBRO study analysed 3700+ papers on #radiotherapy innovations (2012–2022): 🔹Only 1% randomised controlled trials 🔹Mostly observational 🔹Endpoints varied widely ➡️ “One-size-fits-all” evidence doesn’t work, RT needs a tailored approach. 👉 bit.ly/4orbHPp

Thank you to the rad techs & radiation therapists who deliver safe, precise, and compassionate cancer care every day. 💙🩻 #NRTW #RadTechWeek #RadiationTherapy #RadiationOncology

🎶 Live music for a life-saving cause! Join The Checkmates Oct 12 at 2p-6p, Dan Electro’s — support IBC Wranglers Boot Walk Team & IBC research at MD Anderson Cancer Center. 🎟️ Tickets: $45.50 👉 tinyurl.com/ys4an856 (tinyurl.com/ys4an856) #BootWalk #IBCWranglers #EndCa ncer #HoustonConcerts#EndCancer

I am super excited to be presenting information about inflammatory breast cancer to the sister’s network breast. Cancer summit for black women today in Houston, Texas! IBC is more common in black women: outcome disparities can be erased w/ prompt diagnosis & guideline driven care!! #thinkibc #bcsm

Dr. Wendy Woodward is not only passionate about patient care, but also physician wellbeing. At #ASTRO25, she’s shares evidence-based strategies for wellness in radiation oncology. @ibcradiation.bsky.social #EndCancer

Gorgeous weather and views in San Francisco for @astro-org.bsky.social #ASTRO25 Ready to Astro!!!

This is a big advance, folks. We've never had a disease-modifying drug for this devastating inherited disease www.science.org/content/arti... www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/... www.economist.com/science-and-...

Excited to share that I am officially recruiting a postdoc to study the neurobiology of addiction! Looking for someone who would be excited to lead current projects in the lab and develop new directions in related areas. More info: bearlab.science/opportunities/