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Amy Ginsburg

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Author of The After Days. Embracing the many joys of retirement despite ovarian cancer. Enthusiastic but minimally-talented crafter, bread baker, golfer, and pickleballer living in Maryland and Delaware. amyginsburg.com

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Amy Ginsburg @authoramy.bsky.social · Jan 19

An introduction.
🩷 Digging retirement life after a career in nonprofits.
💜 Wrote The After Days and currently polishing second novel.
🩵 Embracing a years-long (hopefully) DIY make-a-wish program thanks to ovarian cancer.
💛 Bake bread, do crafty projects, play pickleball and golf, & adore travel.

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Amy Ginsburg @authoramy.bsky.social · 5d

You know, having ovarian cancer would be easier (though not easy) if there weren't petty problems with paperwork, like a CT scan order being sent and received and processed properly. #cancer #cansky

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Amy Ginsburg @authoramy.bsky.social · Sep 3

I don't post often these days, but it's Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. (I was diagnosed with Stage 1 Ovarian Cancer 3 years ago & it recurred a year ago. Thanks to chemo & Lynparza, my nodules are now "too small to measure" so I'm doing well.) If you have these symptoms, see your doctor. #cansky

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Aug 15

New report from AAMC about clinical trials, other grants, and training

www.aamc.org/about-us/mis...

Clinical trials and research training stalled as billions in NIH funds sit idle

Billions in NIH research funds remain unspent, stalling clinical trials, halting grants, and disrupting training for future scientists.

www.aamc.org

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Amy Ginsburg @authoramy.bsky.social · Aug 7

I'm good. Hope you are well and that the writing goes equally well.

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Amy Ginsburg @authoramy.bsky.social · Jun 16

My CA125 (a ovarian cancer marker) has risen 50% - whether due to disease progression or intestinal inflammation from Lynparza side effects is the big question. Until blood work and a CT scan in 2 weeks, like Schrodingers cat, I both do and do not have disease progression. Waiting sucks. #cancer

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Amy Ginsburg @authoramy.bsky.social · Jun 14

#nokings in North Bethesda, Md

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Amy Ginsburg @authoramy.bsky.social · Jun 12

As someone with an ovarian cancer recurrence, I want to thank you for speaking the truth about Trump's devastating cuts to science and research. Goodbye cure, hello death.

Amy Ginsburg @authoramy.bsky.social · Jun 8

And so starts the civil war. Or at least a war on our civil rights. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

Live Updates: Trump to Send National Guard to L.A. to Quell Immigration Protests

www.nytimes.com

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SWOG Cancer Research Network @swog.org · Jun 1

Roughly 1 in 20 Americans living today is a cancer survivor, and roughly 40% of us will get a cancer diagnosis at some point.
Today, June 1, is National Cancer Survivors Day #NCSD2025, a reminder of how essential it is that we continue and extend the work of #CancerResearch!

National Cancer Survivors Day, June 1, 2025

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Amy Ginsburg @authoramy.bsky.social · May 31

Not good. Not good at all

Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · May 31

The Trump administration’s billion-dollar cuts to the National Institutes of Health include a $2.7 billion blow to the National Cancer Institute slashing more than a third of its funding. “For the past 50 years, every significant medical breakthrough, especially in the treatment of cancer,

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Uiqtidar @uiqtidar.bsky.social · May 29

"Cancer is cured, the economy grows at 10% a year, the budget is balanced — and 20% of people don't have jobs."

Interesting. @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/05/28/a...

Behind the Curtain: Top AI CEO foresees white-collar bloodbath

Hardly anyone is paying attention.

www.axios.com

Amy Ginsburg @authoramy.bsky.social · May 28

As someone with advanced ovarian cancer, it is slightly horrifying to have one's lethal disease quantified as a market. Then again, a larger market probably equals more chances of a cure.
#cansky #cancersky #cancer #ovariancancee

linkewire.com/2025/05/26/o...

Ovarian Cancer Market Projected to Reach USD 35.00 Billion by 2034, Growing at a CAGR of 24.1%

Market Overview Polaris Market Research’s latest research report, titled Ovarian Cancer Market, offers a comprehensive and data-driven analysis of the mar

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The Mighty Jungle💙💛 @ocanannain.bsky.social · May 28

Woman’s life-saving treatment delayed by Trump cuts to NIH: ‘Cancer shouldn’t be political’

A 43-year-old woman and mother of two with advanced cancer is experiencing life-or-death delays in treatment because of the Trump administration’s cuts to the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Woman’s life-saving treatment delayed by Trump cuts to NIH: ‘Cancer shouldn’t be political’

Natalie Phelps, who has stage 4 colorectal cancer, has raised the alarm over how patients in the agency’s clinical trials are facing setbacks in treatment

www.theguardian.com

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Amy Ginsburg @authoramy.bsky.social · May 26

The New Wilderness is an interesting take on a bleak future where living off the land is one of the few viable options left in a polluted, dire America.

#booksky #bookreview #novels #dystopianfiction

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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · May 25

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Larry Tenney @larrytenney.bsky.social · May 26

‼️ ATTENTION SENIORS

REPUBLICANS are gonna CUT $500 billion from MEDICARE

Yup, Republicans' "Big Bill" has a hidden poison pill in it that triggers half a trillion dollars in CUTS TO MEDICARE

Call your Representative and Senators and demand they remove the Medicare poison pill (202) 224-3121

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Amy Ginsburg @authoramy.bsky.social · May 22

Well, that sucks. I would have loved a next-generation treatment for my ovarian cancer.

WBEZ @wbez.org · May 13

Listen: The NIH is freezing funding to several universities, including Northwestern University where a lab working on next-generation treatments for ovarian and pancreatic cancer is no longer able to continue what a head professor says is “promising research.” www.wbez.org/reset-with-s...

Frozen NIH funds halt some cancer research at Northwestern

A lab working on next-generation treatments for ovarian and pancreatic cancer is no longer able to continue what a head professor says is “promising research.”

www.wbez.org

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Amy Ginsburg @authoramy.bsky.social · May 21

The Democratic staff's analysis also reported a 31% decline in cancer research grant funding in the first three months of 2025, compared to the same timeframe in the previous year.

www.axios.com/2025/05/19/n...

NIH funding cuts put current and future cancer patients at risk

Cancer remains the second-leading cause of death in the U.S.

www.axios.com

Amy Ginsburg @authoramy.bsky.social · May 18

In The Frozen River, a strong, tenacious woman provides fascinating insights into life in early American history. Highly recommend.

#booksky #bookreview #readingcommunitt

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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · May 16

Here’s what a GOP plan could mean for different Americans next year:

People making under $17,000 a year: lose an average of around $1,000.

People making between ~$17,000 and $51,000: lose an average of around $700.

People in the top 0.1%: gain an average of over $389,000.

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Amy Ginsburg @authoramy.bsky.social · May 16

Decided (with my doctor) to decrease my dose of Lynparza due to side effects that were compromising my ability to fully enjoy my life.

Of course, now I worry the dosage reduction might mean the drug's not as effective at preventing a second recurrence of my #ovariancancer. UGH!

#cancersky #cancer

Amy Ginsburg @authoramy.bsky.social · May 13

Truth

Amy Ginsburg @authoramy.bsky.social · May 11

Democrats need to be much better marketers. We're not the tax and spend party, Republicans are. They don't care about deficit, but Dems actually do something about it.