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Teen Cancer America @teencanceramerica.bsky.social · Aug 12

#AYA ...who wants to connect over a love of music?

www.tfaforms.com/5185056

#cancer #support #music

Teen Cancer America @teencanceramerica.bsky.social · Jul 15

Indeed financial issues are a side effect of cancer and the treatment. For young adults, this can be for decades.

Now more than ever, this financial toxicity tumor is needed!

#oncology #AYACSM #Earlyonsetcancer #lateandlongterm #fintox

Fumiko Ladd Chino, MD FASCO @fumikochino.bsky.social · Jul 15

"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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Teen Cancer America @teencanceramerica.bsky.social · Jun 24

Yes young adults get #cancer AND the incidence is 📈 in this population. Often diagnosed at an advanced stage because it's not thought to even be at this age. #Primarycare, #urgentcare, #healthcare, you can learn more 👇🏾

www.accc-cancer.org/state-societ...

AYA Webinar Series

www.accc-cancer.org

Teen Cancer America @teencanceramerica.bsky.social · Jun 23

Friday, June 27, 2025!
Working AND cancer...hard, hard, hard to do both at the same time.
👇🏾 free event for patients, survivors, caregivers, healthcare professionals, advocates, employers/HR, advocates & others touched by #cancer to explore employment complexities of tx/recovery.
tinyurl.com/t74vbpyt

National Conference on Work & Cancer | Cancer and Careers

Cancer and Careers empowers and educates people with cancer to thrive in their workplace, by providing expert advice, interactive tools and educational events.

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Teen Cancer America @teencanceramerica.bsky.social · Jun 9

#AYACSM and #Earlyonset people...do this 👇🏾

Fumiko Ladd Chino, MD FASCO @fumikochino.bsky.social · Jun 9

🚨Deadline Alert TOMORROW‼️
📅 Tuesday, June 10

#ASCOQLTY25 @ascocancer.bsky.social Abstract submissions are due this week! Share your solutions-driven research & help shape the future of quality cancer care.

Don’t miss the premier forum for innovation in care delivery!

👉 asco.org/quality

ASCO Quality Care Symposium
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October 10-11, 2025 • Marriott Marquis
Chicago • Chicago, IL & Online
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Showcase your work for advancing quality cancer care. Contribute your solutions-oriented research to the 2025 ASCO Quality Care Symposium-the premier meeting addressing the quality, safety, and efficiency in cancer care delivery.
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Teen Cancer America @teencanceramerica.bsky.social · May 21

This 👇🏾 is for every #oncology clinician who treats #AYA.

Thank you @ascocancer.bsky.social for sharing this actionable, care implementable, and practical education piece.

BRAVO @lailaagrawalmd.bsky.social et. al

#AYACSM #sexualhealth #lateandlongterm

American Society of Clinical Oncology @ascocancer.bsky.social · May 20

Sexual health concerns after cancer are common, but too often go unaddressed. Authors discuss for #ASCOEdBook: brnw.ch/21wSNMs

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Teen Cancer America @teencanceramerica.bsky.social · May 21

Hear, HEAR!

#AYACSM #lateandlongterm #cancer #sexualhealth

American Society of Clinical Oncology @ascocancer.bsky.social · May 20

Sexual health concerns after cancer are common, but too often go unaddressed. Authors discuss for #ASCOEdBook: brnw.ch/21wSNMs

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Teen Cancer America @teencanceramerica.bsky.social · May 19

Patients for Safer Nuclear Medicine Coalition Mary Ajango was quoted in this Auntie Minnie article discussing Bill #HR2541. Check out Cancer Network's 3-part series on extravasations and Bill #HR2541 at bit.ly/42YaJR4, bit.ly/435MsIR, and bit.ly/3Z0HBr8. #extravasation #nuclearmedicine #ayacsm

Controversy clouds nuclear medicine bill in Congress

Radiology societies and patient advocates are at odds over a bill in the U.S. Congress.

www.auntminnie.com

Teen Cancer America @teencanceramerica.bsky.social · May 15

Secondary Infertility.
If you have patients who are parents of young children, please share Bright Spot Network's Wed May 21, 2025 free parent panel on navigating secondary infertility.

#Healthcareproviders are also encouraged to attend.

#AYASCM #oncofertility #familybuilding #AYA #earlyonset

Teen Cancer America @teencanceramerica.bsky.social · May 14

#AYA #cancer incidence ⬆️

ascopost.com/news/may-202...

This population's high needs: fertility preservation consultation, disease/treatment/healthcare system understanding, financial concerns assistance, childcare, help with their sex life, coping w/ all the mental emotional onslaught.

#AYACSM

Early-Onset Breast, Colorectal, Endometrial, Pancreatic, and Kidney Cancers on the Rise

A study by researchers at the National Cancer Institute investigating cancer incidence in the United States between 2010 and 2019 has found that breast, colorectal, endometrial, pancreatic, and kidney...

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Teen Cancer America @teencanceramerica.bsky.social · May 13

Going to #ASCO2025 and someone who treats people 15 - 39 years of age? Please join us 👇🏾.
#AYACSM

Teen Cancer America @teencanceramerica.bsky.social · May 9

📣 #AYACSM researchers!!!

#oncology #equityresearch #underserved #marginalized

Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · May 9

Funding opportunity from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation!! Did you study racial or indigenous health inequalities and just lose federal research funds? This might be for you! Brief proposal due May 28. They're holding office hours. See link: www.evidenceforaction.org/funding/rapi...

Rapid Response Research awards are specifically intended to support early- to mid-career health equity researchers whose racial or Indigenous health equity research was interrupted by federal funding shifts. Project Directors (PD) for this award need not have been the Principal Investigator or PD of the originally funded project. Funds may cover a wide range of costs that were associated with the original research project.

We expect to award approximately $2M in rapid response grants, with awards ranging from $50k to $200k for up to 24 months.

For this single stage application process, Brief Proposals are due May 28, 2025 at 3pm EDT.

Teen Cancer America @teencanceramerica.bsky.social · May 7

"With many patients now surviving longer, prognosis needs to be seen as being currently in a fluid state and may need to be revisited ... it is important to continue to assess the physical and emotional needs of patients surviving with metastatic disease."

Stage IV surviving focus at ASCO 2025 👏!

Prof Michael Jefford @michael-jefford.bsky.social · May 6

A preview of our education session at the ASCO annual meeting is in this ASCO Daily News article. The session will be at 8am on Sunday June 1 in room E450a, dailynews.ascopubs.org/do/treatable...

Treatable But Not Curable: Addressing Survivorship Care Needs of Patients With Advanced or Metastatic Cancer

An Education Session will highlight the recently released Multinational Association for Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC) and ASCO guidelines for Survivorship Care for People Affected by Advanced or M...

dailynews.ascopubs.org

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Teen Cancer America @teencanceramerica.bsky.social · Apr 22

❤️‍🩹 too many, too soon

Elephants and Tea @elephantsandteamag.bsky.social · Apr 21

Join us tomorrow as we honor all of the individuals our community would like to remember. The unfortunate reality of being part of the AYA cancer community is that we lose people we love to cancer.

us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#memorialevent #ayacancer #cancersupport

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Teen Cancer America @teencanceramerica.bsky.social · Apr 17

Yet more evidence that #cancer incidence is on the rise in #AYA

"the worrisome trend of increasing pancreatic adenocarcinoma in all age groups and the increasing incidence of colorectal adenocarcinoma in the youngest age groups"

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

#AYACSM #whytheuptickinAYAcancer

Incidence of Pancreas and Colorectal Adenocarcinoma in the US

This cohort study reports updated incidence trends for pancreas and colorectal adenocarcinomas, particularly annual percentage changes in younger age groups.

jamanetwork.com

Teen Cancer America @teencanceramerica.bsky.social · Apr 14

"High-grade neuroendocrine tumor is a complex and aggressive condition that has seen few medical advances, in part because its rarity has subdued research investment"

Neuroendocrine tumors are a rare cancer, across all populations, including AYAs.

We 👏 ⬇️ . TY to those who participate! #AYACSM

OncoDaily @oncodaily.bsky.social · Apr 14

A clinical trial for patients with high-grade neuroendocrine tumors is now open for enrollment at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center

oncodaily.com/science/sylv...

#OncoDaily #Oncology #Cancer #Health #Medicine #MedEd #MedOnc #MedNews #Sylvester #NETs

A clinical trial for patients with high-grade neuroendocrine tumors is now open for enrollment at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center - OncoDaily

A clinical trial for patients with high-grade neuroendocrine tumors is now open for enrollment at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center / Aman Chauhan,

oncodaily.com

Teen Cancer America @teencanceramerica.bsky.social · Apr 11

#AYAware
#AYA
#Cancer
#Oncology
#AYACSM

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Teen Cancer America @teencanceramerica.bsky.social · Apr 10

#AYAware #AYACSM #financialtoxicity #cancer #AYA #AYAawarenessweek

Teen Cancer America @teencanceramerica.bsky.social · Apr 9

#AYAware #AYACSM #knowcancersymptoms #PCP #Primarycare #YoungAdultsgetcancertoo

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Teen Cancer America @teencanceramerica.bsky.social · Apr 8

#AYAWARE #Cancer #oncology #skyonc #AYACSM

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Teen Cancer America @teencanceramerica.bsky.social · Apr 7

#AYAWARE #Cancer #oncology #skyonc #AYACSM

Teen Cancer America @teencanceramerica.bsky.social · Apr 1

Very important to #AYA dx with #cancer, sex and fertility. Both drastically negatively affected by cancer & tx.

If you aren't holding these discussions, what do you need to offer these conversations?

#oncology #oncsky #oncofertility #AYACSM

Michael Baliousis @mbaliousis.bsky.social · Apr 1

And opening up space to discuss these concerns will need some gentle effort from us healthcare professionals...

Lesley Smith @lesleysmith.bsky.social · Apr 1

“With the growing incidence of cancer, particularly among young individuals, increased knowledge and awareness of the potential effects of cancer treatment on sexual health and reproductive potential among physicians and individuals is increasingly important” www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Teen Cancer America @teencanceramerica.bsky.social · Mar 27

Thank you Dr. Butensky for this important work. With GI cancers on the rise in #AYA, these barriers pointed out below are exponentially hard and life altering when diagnosed as a young adult.

#AYACSM

Yale Cancer Center @yalecancer.bsky.social · Mar 27

Dr. Samuel Butensky highlights the barriers patients with #GICancers face, including transportation issues, financial strains, and limited access to mental health support & medications. #SSO2025
@socsurgonc.bsky.social @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social

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Teen Cancer America @teencanceramerica.bsky.social · Mar 24

A #cancer grand round of note 👇🏾

#AYACSM #oncsky #oncology #cancerresearch

Yale Cancer Center @yalecancer.bsky.social · Mar 24

We are thrilled to welcome @kimrynrathmell.bsky.social as our #GrandRounds and Paul Calabresi, MD, Memorial Lecturer tomorrow at 12pm, presenting "Cancer at the Crossroads." Join us in Smilow Auditorium for lunch or online via Zoom: bit.ly/4kV1xFg.
@yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social

Reposted by Teen Cancer America

Make Cancer Less Shitty @cancersuckless.bsky.social · Mar 17

THIS.
There are the side effects that happen during treatment and then there are the side effects that "just keep on giving" 😑
We need to #MakeCancerLessShitty by improving the access to supportive care during treatment AND post-treatment survivorship support. #SuppOnc #SurvOnc #CanSky #OncSky

olivia | she/they @oliviathecritter.bsky.social · Mar 17

I’m on a new steroid to hopefully reduce swelling in my chest. Most people wouldn’t expect cancer/chemo side effects to still be kicking my ass nearly six months later, but they are. #cansky

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