Restaging w/ #PSMA Imaging in #mCRPC #ProstateCancer: When Seeing More Is Detrimental to Care Sadly a year later this remains true & the frequency of this is 📈 @ascocancer.bsky.social @ascopost.bsky.social ascopubs.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

🗣️"The system is horribly broken & it hurts patients unnecessarily” 🗣️"They wrote me off as a dead man”   Navigating #priorauth requires tech savvy, an understanding of insurance processes, knowledge of personal rights, & time to engage in the process.   @ascocancer.bsky.social @astro-org.bsky.social

Patient Perspectives on Prior Authorization for Cancer Care

This qualitative study characterizes the perspectives of patients with cancer regarding their experience with prior authorization for cancer care.

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Shout out to the WSJ journalists who reported on Vought’s impoundment by footnote, causing the White House to walk it back. Impact journalism!!

Liz Essley Whyte@lizessleywhyte.bsky.social · last yr.

UPDATE: The pause was scrapped Tuesday evening after intervention by top White House officials. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Such an honor and so much fun to join the Cancer Clear and Simple @uwhealth.bsky.social Carbone Cancer Center Podcast to discuss liquid biopsies in cancer! cancer.wisc.edu/community-ou...

"We cure a lot of diseases, & we create a lot of medical debt. It’s a push/pull; right? The advances that we have within science & medicine are profound. We have people living longer & better. Yet, the cost of treatment is a side effect like any other." #financialToxicity @cancerletter.com

First-ever financial toxicity tumor board aims to change the standard of care Researchers focus on debt as a side effect of cancer, treatment amid cuts to Medicaid, NCI - The Cancer Letter

Nearly half of cancer patients and survivors in the United States face medical debt so crushing that it has sparked a relatively new focus within oncology: financial toxicity. To access this subscribe...

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"It is a nightmare waking up every day wondering if some people halfway across the country will approve what my doctors have said is my only chance." 📄 New #PriorAuth in cancer report shows the scope of the problem & the need to #fixpriorAuth @cancercare.bsky.social www.cancercare.org/redtape

Better late than never I guess! Every year I try to write a review of the year just past, primarily for my grandkids to read when I’m no longer around and here is 2024 finally! runningintocancer.co.uk/2025/05/29/r...

Review of 2024 – Palaces and Parliament

It’s great to start by celebrating still being alive at the end of another year given that, in May 2017, I was told I might only live 2 years! 2024 saw me enter my 8th year post diagnosis having su…

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Grateful to @ascocancer.bsky.social Ed Book 📗@n8pennell.bsky.social for this #MedEd publication 🛣️ How to move forward in #EarlyCareer 🚧 Overcoming barriers ⚙️ Switching gears ⏰ Making time and space 🔗: ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/... @ericroeland.bsky.social @ryannipp.bsky.social

ASCO Palliative Oncology Community of Practice (PallOncCoP)@pallonccop.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations to our co-champion @realbowtiedoc.bsky.social for this @ascocancer.bsky.social presentation for early career oncologists in @ascopost.bsky.social representing the community oncology perspective. We will be supporting you at #ASCO25!

Special episode of GU Cast from Guy’s Hospital focused on #RadiationCystitis. Unique clinic dedicated to these unfortunate patients learn from Yasmin and Ramesh and team. Some great insights youtu.be/d4A2_swZOHw?...

Radiation cystitis!!! Help!!

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Latest data on measles in the US. The total number of cases has already reached 800 in the first 4 months of 2025 with 85 hospitalizations and 3 deaths. There were 285 total cases last year. 🧪 www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/us-m...

US measles total climbs to 800 cases, 10 outbreaks

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Ohio Medicaid got rid of big middlemen. Says it paid pharmacies a lot more — and saved $140M ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/04/17/o...

Ohio Medicaid got rid of big middlemen. Says it paid pharmacies a lot more — and saved $140M • Ohio Capital Journal

The Ohio Department of Medicaid department in 2022 gave powerful prescription drug middlemen the boot and created a new system. The result: Fees paid to pharmacies were boosted more than 1,200% while ...

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What if we screened smarter, not just more? In BARCODE1, men with high polygenic risk (top 10%) had MRI + biopsy— 40% had prostate cancer. Over half needed treatment. Most would’ve been missed by PSA alone. Genetics is rewriting the rules. @nejm.org @myesmo.bsky.social @oncoalert.bsky.social

The act will disenfranchise vets/active/overseas military from voting as well (who often have less access to reams of documents) LDF Denounces House Passage of SAVE Act, Urges Senate to Reject Bill that Will Disenfranchise Millions of Americans - naacpldf.org/press-release/… #HellNo #VotesForVets

Stephanie L. Graff, MD FACP FASCO@drsgraff.bsky.social · last yr.

Married women who have their husbands last name may need to show 3+ legal documents to verify voter eligibility LDF Denounces House Passage of SAVE Act, Urges Senate to Reject Bill that Will Disenfranchise Millions of Americans - #HellNo #VotesForWomen www.naacpldf.org/press-releas...

Whatever fraud there is in Medicaid is largely on the provider side, not beneficiaries. It's health insurance, its not cash. "Fraud" here means going to a doctor if you are unemployed.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

Mike Johnson on Medicaid: "What we've talked about is returning work requirements ... you return the dignity of work to young men who need to be out working instead of playing video games all day. We have a lot of fraud, waste, and abuse in Medicaid."

🚨 Hot off the press! 🚨 The @myesmo.bsky.social ESMO Precision Oncology Working Group, has unveiled key "Recommendations for structuring Molecular Tumour Boards (MTBs) in clinical practice", now published in ESMO's flagship journal Annals of Oncology 🧬🏥 www.annalsofoncology.org/article/S092...

Low-dose CT for lung cancer screening in a high-risk population (SUMMIT): a prospective, longitudinal cohort study out on LANCET Oncology www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... These findings support the feasibility and effectiveness of large-scale lung cancer screening in a diverse population.

I understand this concern, but the anti-vaxx arguments are already everywhere on social media. We have to have people refuting this stuff. Can’t let it go completely unchecked.

Jeffrey Wuhl@jeffreywuhl.bsky.social · last yr.

Do you worry that he’s giving them credibility by “debating” them?

Just in NIH grants, It looks like beautiful Iowa City, home of the U of Iowa, will lose $71m in funding. That's almost $1k per resident. And that's before all the other cuts to SSA, FDA, etc. Anyone in Iowa City that can offer more insight? scienceimpacts.org H/T to Prathima !

This is not efficiency, this is abandonment. Americans deserve health care that works for them — and instead, the Trump administration is wreaking havoc on seniors, people with disabilities, and our most vulnerable. In Illinois, we will stand up against these attacks.

The Trump administration restructures federal health agencies, cuts 20,000 jobs

The reduction in force comes along with a reorganization of the Department of Health and Human Services, consolidating 28 divisions to 15.

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The NIH is set to lose ~1,200 ppl as part of the HHS restructuring. An NIH researcher had not yet received news internally about plans to restructure the agency as of Thursday morning, less than an hour after Kennedy's statement published. cen.acs.org/policy/US-De... @cenmag.bsky.social #chemsky

US Department of Health and Human Services to lay off 10,000 employees

Cuts will affect the Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Institutes of Health

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Happy to share our new work with @haognguyen on targeting mRNA translation of oncogenes by RNA structure remodeling with a small molecule zotatifin. Congrats to ⁦@DuyguKuzuoglu⁩ an amazing postdoc and all the authors and collaborators! cell.com/cancer-cell/fu…

A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.

"more transparency throughout [the #priorAuth] process is great, I remain concerned that relying on patients & physicians to recognize & initiate appeals places disproportionate burden on our patients who can least afford it." @michaelannica.bsky.social @ascocancer.bsky.social

Emilie Gunn@emiliemgunn.bsky.social · last yr.

🎙️In the latest #JCOOP podcast, @fumikochino.bsky.social discusses the past, present, and future of prior authorization in cancer care with Dr. Michael Anne Kyle, a health policy expert with a research focus on utilization management and patient burdens from prior auth. 🎧 ascopubs.org/do/prior-aut...

Do these clinical trial failures demonstrate a failure of traditional pre-clinical models to reflect the human disease? In addition to the complete avoidance of biomarker-driven clinical trials to find the subset of patients that would benefit.? @asharpmedonc.bsky.social @pcf-science.bsky.social

Ravi Madan@ravimadan.bsky.social · last yr.

Dr. Susan Slovin from MSK asks some key questions regarding #ProstateCancer #Immunotherapy @ascocancer.bsky.social ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/...

Dr. Susan Slovin from MSK asks some key questions regarding #ProstateCancer #Immunotherapy @ascocancer.bsky.social ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/...

Immune Checkpoint Combos in Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer: Where Are We Going, What Are We Doing, and Why?

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Vaccines work. Measles, polio, smallpox—once devastating, now nearly gone. This is what science achieves when we trust it. Let’s not turn back. #VaccinesSaveLives #PublicHealth #ScienceMatters @statista.bsky.social

What a great day at our 2025 retreat- celebrating and socializing with colleagues and planning for the upcoming year. @marina-sharifi.bsky.social @noelleloconte.bsky.social @joshlangmd.bsky.social

Our new paper in JITC with a group of fine international friends, mentees and colleagues about immunotherapy in patients with cardiac metastasis. jitc.bmj.com/content/13/3/e… @danafarber.bsky.social jitc.bmj.com/content/13/3...64

Harrison, whose plasma contained a rare antibody, rolled up his sleeve 1,173 times from 1954 to 2018. The Australian is credited with helping 2.4 million babies and advancing scientific research.

James Harrison, whose blood donations saved over 2 million babies, has died

Harrison, whose plasma contained a rare antibody, rolled up his sleeve 1,173 times from 1954 to 2018. The Australian is credited with helping 2.4 million babies and advancing scientific research.

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