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Ravi Madan @ravimadan.bsky.social · Aug 4

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 📈

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Fumiko Ladd Chino, MD FASCO @fumikochino.bsky.social · Jul 31

🗣️"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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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Jul 30

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 · Jul 30

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

Trump Administration Scraps Effort to Pause Health-Research Funding

The administration halted and then restarted billions in new research grants flowing from the National Institutes of Health.

www.wsj.com

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Josh Lang @joshlangmd.bsky.social · Jul 25

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!

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Cancer Clear and Simple Podcast

Welcome to ‘Cancer Clear and Simple,’ the podcast dedicated to simplifying cancer. Join us as we discuss the world of cancer, breaking down complex concepts for our listening audience. One of our goal...

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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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Fumiko Ladd Chino, MD FASCO @fumikochino.bsky.social · Jun 18

"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

THE HEALTH INSURANCE
MAZE
How Cancer Patients Get Lost in the Red Tape of Utilization Management

Key Report Themes
CANCERCATE
Over 80 Years ef Help and Hope
• Prior authorization is widespread and repetitive
• Prior authorization leads to time burdens and care delays
• Coverage stoppages surprise patients and interrupt care
• Insurance problems affect stress, health, finances, and trust
• Self-advocacy barriers include gaps in insurance literacy and system awareness
• Employer-sponsored plans carried highest administrative burdens, followed by Medicare Advantage, then Traditional Medicare

Needed At Least One Prior Authorization for Cancer Treatment, Past 12 Months, by Insurance Type

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Josh Lang @joshlangmd.bsky.social · Jun 5

This is how it begins...

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Tony Collier BEM @ethansgrumps.bsky.social · May 29

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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Milwaukee Brewers @milwaukee--brewers.bsky.social · May 26

Memorial Day dub

There we go

#MilwaukeeBrewers#BrewersBaseball #MLB

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Dr Joseph McCollom DO @realbowtiedoc.bsky.social · May 8

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/...

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GU Cast | Declan Murphy & Renu Eapen @gu-cast.bsky.social · Apr 23

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!!

YouTube video by GU Cast

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William C Phelps, PhD @wcphelps.bsky.social · Apr 21

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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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · Apr 17

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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Yüksel Ürün @yukselurun.bsky.social · Apr 10

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

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Stephanie L. Graff, MD FACP FASCO @drsgraff.bsky.social · Apr 10

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/…#HellNoN#VotesForVetsts

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Josh Lang @joshlangmd.bsky.social · Apr 10

We have known for years that uninsured and underinsured patients with cancer have the worst clinical outcomes. Medicaid is the only lifeline for many of these patients to get the care they need. As an oncologist, I have personally seen the harm caused lack of coverage. Our patients deserve better.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Apr 10

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 · Apr 10

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."

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Vivek Subbiah, MD @viveksubbiah.bsky.social · Apr 8

🚨 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...

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The OncoAlert Network 🚨 @oncoalert.bsky.social · Apr 2

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.

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Dr. Glaucomflecken @glaucomflecken.bsky.social · Mar 31

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 · Mar 31

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

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · Mar 29

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 !

SCiMaP

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · Mar 27

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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Rowan Walrath @rowanwalrath.bsky.social · Mar 27

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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Davide Ruggero @ruggerolab.bsky.social · Mar 24

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…

Small-molecule RNA therapeutics to target prostate cancer

Kuzuoglu-Ozturk et al. showcase a therapeutic approach, “translatome therapy,” to combat lethal prostate cancer. Zotatifin, a clinical molecule, targets the RNA-helicase eIF4A. Zotatifin decreases the select translation of key oncogenes, androgen receptor (AR), and HIF1α through remodeling their 5′ UTR RNA structure. Zotatifin enhances anti-androgen and radiotherapy sensitivity, highlighting a promising anti-cancer treatment.

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Jon Rauch @jonrauch.bsky.social · Mar 20

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.

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