#ASCO #GU26 Session on localized #ProstateCancer Dr. Ron Chen highlights functional impacts, comparing RP v RT *Emphasizes for PCOS that was much less sophisticated radiation I would add that was much less sophisticated surgery (open RRP) #pcsm

#ASCO #GU26 You can tell the make up for the meeting’s attendees at the afternoon #prostatecancer general session on localized disease Lots of empty seats (not a criticism of the speakers) —Dr. Barocas shows slides on anatomy, not Kaplan-Meyer curves—Not much of a draw if you are a med onc 🤷🏻‍♂️

#ASCO #GU26 Re: comment from the audience: I appreciate the patient advocate sharing he has a new #prostatecancer diagnosis stemming from his getting a #PSA spurred by the Super Bowl Ad! #ScreeningSavesLives www.relaxitsabloodtest.com?site=GK10010... #pcsm

🔜 #GU26 @ascocancer.bsky.social How to approach a vast meeting w/so much data? Look beyond data that repackages known truths but do NOT really advance understanding Common examples: 1. Less cancer is better than more cancer 2. Responders do better 3. More treatments vs. less improves PFS

#ASCO #GU26 Day 1 of the GU cancer symposium in SF—it’s prostate day!

Can confirm

Great to see Jaspeet Sandhu @mskcancercenter.bsky.social in town to give the Philadelphia Urologic Society B.A. Thomas lecture—a leader in urology cancer survivorship. Has it really been over 25 yrs since we were at The Brady? #CornellMafia #UroSoMe #UroSky

From the @bmj.com this week - some commentary on the exodus of medical leaders from X that used to be Twitter. It’s sad, but I think it’s the right thing to move away from that platform. #MedSky Link here: www.bmj.com/content/392/...

FYI—this unique opportunity is next week, to meet PDs of the premier GURS fellowship programs in one setting. Feb 5– One Zoom – Don't miss it! Register: tinyurl.com/Gursopenhouse @SocietyGURS @urorecon @jsimhan @TempleUrology @FCUroOnc @caseurology #GURS #UrologyFellowship #UroEd

Inviting interested candidates to the FCCC Uro Onc fellowship virtual open house Link here to register: forms.office.com/pages/respon... #SurgEd #FCCCProud #PhillysCancerCenter

Reposting here: #UroEd #SoMe

Jon Stewart responded to CBS bowing down to Trump and canceling Colbert

Countdown to last game of high school career

"We've gone from being a fringe option to being recognized as a level of treatment on par with surgery and radiation." -- @dytcmd.bsky.social, of Fox Chase Cancer Center, discussing focused ultrasound ablation for operable #prostatecancer. #AUA2025 www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcover...

So this just happened! And congrats to all the grads of Class of 2025! #ProudDad #GoOwls #CST @temple.edu

Wordle 1,391 1/6* 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 This won’t ever happen again

Former FDA Commissioner under Trump 1.0: @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social

It’s weird* that the president can just decide to put a huge tax on American businesses without congress even being a little bit involved. * very unconstitutional

9/ The tariffs are DESIGNED to create economic hardship. Why? So that Trump has a straight face rationale for releasing them, business by business or industry by industry. As he adjusts or grants relief, it’s a win-win: the economy improves and dissent disappears.

Weekend plans #PAStateChess swisssys.com/report_viewe...

Unfathomable: Mitch McConnell & Ken Calvert have killed the Kidney Cancer Research Program for FY25. We’re going to lose so much progress because of this. I am appalled by this decision. My life was saved by government funded research. How many other #cancerpatients will die because of this? #oncsky

It's pretty remarkable that Musk paid $44 billion for Twitter but acquiring the US government only cost him around $250 million.

You wouldn't know from reading this New York Times story about Trump punishing the University of Pennsylvania for trans athletes that there are no trans athletes on women's teams at the University of Pennsylvania because the New York Times didn't find that detail worth including

Spoiler alert: The study will be positive. It will find an association between vaccines and autism, because that’s what RFK Jr. wants. He will make sure the investigators are chosen to produce this result. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.

It’s a cold one today!

Medicare coverage of telemedicine services like these will end March 31st, unless Congress extends.

This Eagles team! The Chiefs fell the gauntlet!

Final push—15 minutes to go! Let’s go Eagles!

It is over! Smith with the dagger! #FlyEaglesFly!

Big stop! GoBirds! Spanking the Chiefs!

30 minutes to finish this! GoBirds! 🦅

Happy Birthday Cooper DeJean! GoBirds! #FlyEaglesFly

1st and Goal! #GoBirds 🦅

Let’s go EAGLES!

This is a reminder that Silver Linings Playbook is a really good movie about what it's like to have an anxiety disorder and also be a football fan

Don’t just say DEI as if it’s a bad word. Spell it out. Say diversity, which is the lifeblood of American society & culture & innovation. Say equity, which a just society should pursue. Say inclusion, because decent people believe in increasing belonging, not isolating people who are different.

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Think global, act local. American Red Cross Philly has been busy. Go birds!

Pennsylvania: 8 schools received over $10 million from NIH in 2024 for a total of about $1.7 billion. Of that, $1.1 billion went directly to research and $661 million to facilities and administration. The new rate would bring that to $165 million, a loss of $496 million.

The DEI caused the plane crash narrative is a distraction. The tariffs are a distraction. Whatever insane nonsense Trump spews that the media will chase like cats chasing a laser light is a distraction. The only story that counts right now is the wholesale hijacking of control of the US government.

This is the ethos of project 2025, dismantling the federal government by any means necessary

American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12

15 minutes to go—go birds!🦅

That is a good start. Go Birds!🦅

Also Elon should be attacked constantly. He's already unpopular, he presents as a douchebag, and he has a weird accent. Attack him in xenophobic terms. No, it's not racist to do so. He's a white guy from a fascist country with a weird accent. Fire away.

CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) has provided real-time data and analysis about disease outbreaks and emerging health threats without a break every week since 1960. Until today.

After Auschwitz, my mom was taken to a labor camp and forced to assemble plane parts for the nazis. A partisan secretly showed her how to sabotage the parts so that’s what she did for the rest of the war, knowing if caught it would be instant death. Resist nazis wherever and whenever you can.

Health research is one of those functions that if you stop it, people will not notice the impact tomorrow, or next month. This makes it hard to communicate its value, unlike, closed national parks during a shutdown. But it generates big public goods. Once that community is eroded, hard to recover.