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Leonidas Platanias, MD

@leonidasplatan1.bsky.social

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Director of the Lurie Cancer Center @luriecancer.bsky.social of Northwestern University. Medical oncologist and cancer researcher. Views & opinions here are my own.

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Leonidas Platanias, MD @leonidasplatan1.bsky.social · May 28

The @luriecancer.bsky.social (LCC) went thru the competing renewal of NCI designation. For a 2nd time we got "exceptional" ranking. The NCI site visit team gave us a "perfect exceptional" (equivalent to 10). LCC is one of few in the nation and the only one in IL to ever achieve exceptional status.

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Leonidas Platanias, MD @leonidasplatan1.bsky.social · 25d

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California Dreamin' Beautiful orchestral version Live

YouTube video by MusicArtstrings

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Leonidas Platanias, MD @leonidasplatan1.bsky.social · Jun 22

“Τι νέοι που φτάσαμεν εδώ, στο έρμο νησί, στο χείλος
του κόσμου, δώθε απ’ τ’ όνειρο και κείθε απ’ τη γη!”

Kostas Karyotakis (1896 - 1928)

Leonidas Platanias, MD @leonidasplatan1.bsky.social · Jun 16

With our amazing community advisory board of @luriecancer.bsky.social today!

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Leonidas Platanias, MD @leonidasplatan1.bsky.social · Jun 2

Μέρα του Απρίλη
Πράσινο λάμπος,
γελούσε ο κάμπος
με το τριφύλλι.

Ως την εφίλει
το πρωινό θάμπος,
η φύση σάμπως
γλυκά να ομίλει.

Εκελαδούσαν
πουλιά, πετώντας όλο πιο πάνω.

Τ’ άνθη ευωδούσαν.
Κι είπε απορώντας: «Πώς να πεθάνω;»

Διάκος poem
Kostas Karyotakis (1896 -1928)

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Crissy Terawaki Kawamoto @crispyteriyaki.bsky.social · Jun 1

Happy National Cancer Survivors Day from Grant Park, site of the Lurie Cancer Center 32nd Annual Cancer Survivors’ Celebration Walk & 5K! #GoCats💜

Nice to finally meet you, @leonidasplatan1.bsky.social!

A woman, a man, and the start line for a race. There is a purple and white balloon arch, under which a banner reads “Cancer Survivors’ Walk.”

A man and a woman, haha, both wearing sunglasses.

People signing and photographing a white banner.

A crowd is gathered in front of a stage, all wearing various types of workout clothes. The Chicago skyline is in the distant background.

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Leonidas Platanias, MD @leonidasplatan1.bsky.social · May 29

Great. I look forward to seeing you there!

Leonidas Platanias, MD @leonidasplatan1.bsky.social · May 28

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Leonidas Platanias, MD @leonidasplatan1.bsky.social · May 26

One of the worst possible premieres of a symphony, was the premiere of Symphony #1 of Rachmaninoff in 1897.

It was conducted by Glazunov (a famous composer himself later) who was drunk at the time and was disastrous. Rachmaninoff suffered severe depression after that.

Leonidas Platanias, MD @leonidasplatan1.bsky.social · May 21

All the big breakthroughs in cancer have started with NIH and NCI funded research.

Every single medication or curative approach used in cancer patients is the direct or indirect result of NIH/NCI funded research.

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Leonidas Platanias, MD @leonidasplatan1.bsky.social · May 4

Johanna Senfter (1879 - 1961) was a remarkable composer with amazing violin and piano works.

Her only recorded Symphony 4, has very strong Brucknerian influences and is absolutely stunning. But she has written 9 in total. Hard to understand why her work is being ignored.

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Leonidas Platanias, MD @leonidasplatan1.bsky.social · May 4

The reason so many diseases are cured has been the investment of the USA to medical research via NIH support.

Without strong support for the NIH, important medical breakthroughs would have never happened. And drugs that cure or control diseases would have never existed.

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Leonidas Platanias, MD @leonidasplatan1.bsky.social · May 3

“No, science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere”.

Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)

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Leonidas Platanias, MD @leonidasplatan1.bsky.social · May 2

"A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "universe," a part limited in time and space."

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

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Leonidas Platanias, MD @leonidasplatan1.bsky.social · May 1

“The task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees."

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)

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Leonidas Platanias, MD @leonidasplatan1.bsky.social · Apr 22

Cancer mortality rates have been dropping because of NIH and NCI funded research to Universities. Without it there would be no new cancer treatments that save lives.

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Leonidas Platanias, MD @leonidasplatan1.bsky.social · Apr 20

“Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.”

Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895)

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Leonidas Platanias, MD @leonidasplatan1.bsky.social · Apr 20

“Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.”

Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895)

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Leonidas Platanias, MD @leonidasplatan1.bsky.social · Apr 19

The impact of science and medicine in saving billions of lives can not be measured in dollars. Human life is priceless.

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Leonidas Platanias, MD @leonidasplatan1.bsky.social · Apr 18

Since its discovery in 1882, over 1 billion people have died from tuberculosis, including great composers, like Chopin, Purcell, Lili Boulanger, Stravinsky.

One can only imagine how the world would be today if medical research had not found TB drugs.

Science is priceless.

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Leonidas Platanias, MD @leonidasplatan1.bsky.social · Apr 17

"History shows us the life of nations and can find nothing to relate except wars and insurrections; the years of peace appear here and there only as short pauses, as intervals between the acts".

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)

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Leonidas Platanias, MD @leonidasplatan1.bsky.social · Apr 17

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Scientists find promising hints of life on distant planet K2-18b

Scientists find new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life.

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Leonidas Platanias, MD @leonidasplatan1.bsky.social · Apr 16

“Everything I discovered was new and most of it was really valuable”.

Alice Hamilton (1869 - 1970)

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Leonidas Platanias, MD @leonidasplatan1.bsky.social · Apr 16

Chicago

Leonidas Platanias, MD @leonidasplatan1.bsky.social · Apr 13

symphony 2. All his symphonies are great.

Leonidas Platanias, MD @leonidasplatan1.bsky.social · Apr 13

Alfredo Casella is one of the greatest Italian composers of all time. And his classical music compositions are not Italian at all. Heavy Mahler and Strauss influence. And even a hint of Bruckner.

But very unique style. Incredible composer.

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