New year new social media platform! Radiation Oncology folks new to blue sky here is your chance. Introduce yourself below, and I can add you to the starter pack as well. #match2025 #radonc #medsky #oncsky 💕☢️🥳 go.bsky.app/TbynCkm

Surgery intern year ✅! This has been a busy year but one that has left me with an appreciation for the role of surgery in multidiscplinary oncology care, and where I have grown as a physician. Onto rad onc this week!! ☢️💕👩🏻‍⚕️ #radonc

#Radonc representation on @NCCN Treatment Guideline Committees is <10%, even for committees that recommend #radiation. Additionally, certain institutions have nominated relatively few ☢️👩‍⚕️ for their designated slots. Glad to see this 📰 finally published. www.advancesradonc.org/article/S245...

Representation of Radiation Oncologists on National Comprehensive Cancer Network Guideline Committees

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guideline committees play a vital role in defining the standard of care for cancer management. Equitable specialty representation is crucial for unbias...

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What is the current state of gender inequity in institutional leadership roles at US academic medical centers? Our systematic scoping review analyzed data from 94 articles between 2019-2022 focusing on deans, department chairs, division chiefs, and program directors. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Excited to share that our ASCO Educational Book chapter on sexual health after cancer is now published! Grateful for the opportunity to highlight this vital, often overlooked part of survivorship care. #CancerSurvivorship #SexualHealth

Enhancing Sexual Health for Cancer Survivors

Changes to sexual function after cancer treatment are extremely prevalent, affecting up to 90% of female patients with cancer and 40%-85% of male patients with cancer. Sexual health concerns include l...

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Welcome to everybody who just matched into Radiation Oncology! Introduce yourself below, and I can add you to the starter pack as well. #match2025 #radonc #medsky #oncsky 💕☢️🥳 go.bsky.app/TbynCkm

So honored and humbled to be nominated as a NextGen Disruptor for the #HealioInnovators awards! I look forward to a career in #radonc dedicated to improving women’s cancer care and advancing gender equity in our profession. 💕 Link to vote is here: www.surveymonkey.com/r/HealioInno... #medsky

Dr. Lin, a physician who is dedicated to addressing health disparities in lung cancer in non-smokers like himself, was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer and decided to teach a course on humanity in medicine. A truly powerful story. #lcsm www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

When This Professor Got Cancer, He Didn’t Quit. He Taught a Class About It. (Gift Article)

Dr. Bryant Lin, who teaches medicine at Stanford University, was given a terminal diagnosis. He wanted his students to understand the humanity at the core of medicine.

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Lung cancer screening saves lives. This month on Thoracic Surgery I have seen many patients diagnosed with lung cancer when it’s still early stage on screening! Criteria: age 50-80, current smoker or quit in past 15 years, >20 pack year smoking history. #cancerprevention

Great write up of the study featuring first author @morganslevy.bsky.social by @gohealio.bsky.social here! www.healio.com/news/hematol...

Physicians, medical students face significant costs with assisted reproductive technology

Both medical students and physicians reported incurring significant out-of-pocket costs from using assisted reproductive technology, according to study results. The findings indicate the need for bett...

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What are the costs associated with family building in physicians and medical students? Out today in @jama.com Network Open the latest chapter of the #SPACEStudy looks at costs associated with ART, Adoption, and Gestational Carriers in this sample. @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social

Cervical cancer mortality in US women <25 years significantly declined between 2016 and 2021, likely due to the widespread adoption of HPV vaccination. ja.ma/3CfjTPI #MedSky #OncSky

An explainer about how health research funding happens and why this NIH funding cycle shutdown matters: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | I’m a health researcher. NIH’s pause on research grants could have a devastating cost.

This is a potentially devastating event — not just for the scientific community, but for all Americans.

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HPV vaccines prevent cancer and save lives. As an oncologist in training, I regularly see the burden and suffering that HPV related cancers cause for my patients. It will involve continuing to build trust, but addressing vaccine hesitancy is vital. #radonc #gyncsm academic.oup.com/jid/advance-...

Short-Course Adjuvant Vaginal Cuff Brachytherapy in Early Endometrial Cancer Compared with Standard of Care (SAVE): A Randomized Clinical Trial— new today from #JCOOA #oncsky #JCOOncologyAdvances #JCOJournals #gynonc ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/...

Following the Dobbs decision, what factors are driving the practice location preferences of medical students and physicians? Our work in IJMR analyzes qualitative data from the PRACTICE study. Link: tinyurl.com/practicequalitative @shikhajainmd.bsky.social @drjessigold.bsky.social #medsky

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid Day 10/20 #BookSky💙📚 #BookChallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. On Rotation by Shirlene Obuobi Bringing this back - starting off 2025 reading her newer book! Day 9/20 #BookSky💙📚 #BookChallenge

And just like that, 6 months of intern year are done! ✅ More reflections to come, my favorite rotations have been head and neck oncology, and urologic oncology. Ready for some time at home with my family, and to start my radiation oncology rotation in January! 🥰 #radonc

The prior authorization process has a corner of hell called peer-to-peer where you have to call and talk to a physician outside your specialty who works for the company Finding time for them is a PITA In my experience these are always immediately approved because you have jumped through the hoops

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I did my first peer-to-peer for acute rehab placement and was shocked by how fast it was approved it once explaining why it was essential. To me, the worst part was keeping our patient who was medically ready for discharge hospitalized longer when they could have been getting skilled rehabilitation.

#SABCS24 #bcsm #OncSky #MedSky Following up with a few resources from FDA-@abreastcancer session today for #breastcancer #advocacy community Someone asked for email to report misleading drug ads: BadAd@fda.hhs.gov /1 @oncoalert.bsky.social

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee (Read in 8th grade - career choice makes sense) Day 8/20 #BookSky💙📚 #BookChallenge

Interesting intra-patient randomized controlled trial design in #IJROBP: film vs gel for reducing radiation dermatitis, with one on each side of the same chest wall radiation area. #OncSky #bcsm #RadOnc @ijrobp.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Cervical cancer mortality in US women younger than 25 years significantly declined between 2016 and 2021, likely due to the widespread adoption of HPV vaccination. ja.ma/4i9ghPC

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Day 7/20 #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge

Being a surgery intern rotating on surgical services treating cancer patients as an incoming rad onc resident 🤝 talking to patients about the role of radiation in their cancer treatment in combination with surgery. Learning so much and grateful for this experience! #radonc #medsky

"Advances in ☢️⚡️ will give the #breastCancer team a growing array of tools to customize treatment plans to individual pt risks & toxicity concerns... with the ultimate goal of promoting high-quality, personalized, & patient-centered cancer care" #bcsm #radonc link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Overall, women account for only 25% of Department Chairs and this is increasing at a snail's pace. Source: AAMC Women in Academic Medicine Report 2023-2024 www.aamc.org/data-reports...

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Legacy by Uche Blackstock Twice as Hard by Jasmine Brown Day 5&6/20 #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge #BlackMedSky

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus The Grace Year by Kim Liggett Day 3&4/20 #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge