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AWESOME 🔥🔥 video on #radiation treatment in honor of childhood cancer awareness month #CCAM by the amazing #MusicWithMsLiz.
youtu.be/fVCCce5IQ08
Excited for #pediatric #AYA advances at #ASTRO!
And a subtle @BrighamRadOnc cameo 👀
@HElhalawaniMD @kevinxliu @DHaasKogan
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Could “more bladder filling” actually make prostate radiotherapy harder for both patients and treatment teams?🎯
practicalradonc.org/article/…
Excessive Bladder Filling at Simulation Correlates with Longer Treatment Times, More Interruptions, and Inferior Patient Experiences During #ProstateCancer Radiotherapy☢️
This study examined whether excessive bladder filling during prostate radiotherapy affects treatment efficiency and patient experience.
➡️Among 211 patients, bladder diameters >10 cm were associated with longer treatment times, more table interruptions, increased worry, and greater frustration. ➡️Importantly, coaching patients to reduce bladder size was feasible and successfully achieved in all 20 coached patients, resulting in shorter treatment times. ✅The findings support personalized bladder-filling guidance during prostate radiotherapy.
@ASarafMD2, @jonathan_leeman, @DrPaulNguyen, @MoningiShalini
@OncoAlert 🚨 #LPCCC27
@Silke_Gillessen
@AOmlin
@ProfKHerrmann
@weoncologists
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Next up @ASarafMD2 on phase II resident-med student #mentorship intervention in #radonc #MedEd
Residents checked with faculty to learn if on track
Great experience to be a part of this work, now need more work in incorporating longitudinal #PROs into clinical workflow and associating with novel biomarkers like #ctDNA.
So appreciate the amazing mentorship of @aparna1024 and @RyanNipp!!
@BrighamRadOnc @MGHCancerCenter
Proud of our team jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
Esp co 1st authors @jxj1998 (now in med school) @ASarafMD2 (new attending) for their incredible work. Started as 2017 office conversation w/ @RyanNipp when we said let’s do this. pros matter! ctDNA data coming next @MGHCancerCenter
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Proud of our team jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
Esp co 1st authors @jxj1998 (now in med school) @ASarafMD2 (new attending) for their incredible work. Started as 2017 office conversation w/ @RyanNipp when we said let’s do this. pros matter! ctDNA data coming next @MGHCancerCenter
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We really need to start incorporating PROs into routine oncology practice, but no easy way to do this in our EMR still. This is like geriatric assessment - needs institutional champions to move it forward, guidelines not enough. Difficult to find support.
This is an important paper, reinforcing yet again why PROs are not just an add-on, might be better than tumour markers! Patient-Reported Outcomes, Tumor Markers, and Survival Outcomes in Advanced GI Cancer jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
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This is an important paper, reinforcing yet again why PROs are not just an add-on, might be better than tumour markers! Patient-Reported Outcomes, Tumor Markers, and Survival Outcomes in Advanced GI Cancer jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
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🪑Congratulations to @harvardmed Professor Andrea Ng MD, inaugural incumbent of the @BrighamWomens Distinguished Chair in Clinical Radiation Oncology! We are thrilled to celebrate her outstanding contributions to our field, institutions, and dept over the course of her career! 🏆
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I had a great time discussing our research developing #NLP methods to actively support patients undergoing radiotherapy and other cancer treatment
@AtlanticLIVE
#PeopleVCancer
@massgenbrigham
@BrighamResearch
.@BrighamWomens’ @dbittermanmd speaks about her work on using natural language processing models to unlock the value of electronic medical records—like proactively addressing patients' housing or transportation challenges.
Watch #PeopleVCancer: youtube.com/watch?v=CZNP_Z62…
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🗞️ Our latest work out today in @NatureComms
🌟 Led by star research fellow Anna Zapaishchykova
🧠 Automated temporalis muscle quantification and growth charts for children through adulthood rdcu.be/dqFGu
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🚨Interested in learning how to provide high-quality, guideline-driven care to older adult pts w/cancer?
📢Tune in for a joint session w/@CARG to learn about @ASCO’s new Practical GA.
➡️ 10/17/23 @ 2pm EST
➡️Leave❓for the experts below
➡️Sign-up at myconnection.asco.org/
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Fantastic turnout for our inaugural @ASTRO_org #EarlyCareer Committee session on Developing as an Early Career practitoner! It's been such a rewarding year with PIC Vice Chair @bananaP08 and major props to @JamesBatesMD for leading this session! #ASTRO23
So honored to be invited to share on early career, such an important topic and great group of people to work with!
#ASTRO2023
@A_CT_SimMDJD @JamesBatesMD @ChelainG @jaguaranna27 @BrighamRadOnc
Wonderful talk by @ASarafMD2 at the inaugural Early Career Professional Development session at #ASTRO23 with many great insights about key differences in mentorship, sponsorship, and benefits/challenges for early career Radiation Oncologists. Knocked it out of the park!! 💪🙌👏
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🧵1/ 🙏🏾🙏🏾Thank you patients, families, trial staff and investigators for participating in @TROGfightcancer
15.03 FASTRACK II! This trial recruited n=70 across 8 sites in 🇦🇺 and 🇳🇱 #ASTRO23! #radonc #kcsm #radiotherapy @ANZUPtrials @KidneyCancer
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#CCAM2023 spotlight is on Daphne Haas-Kogan, MD, the @BrighamRadOnc Chair, and much more. @DHaasKogan has decades of expertise in the #pediatric #AYA #radonc patient care, #research, and clinical trials🎗️ 1/2
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How did the change in NCCN guidelines for testicular seminoma in 2012 impact outcomes? Check out our findings in the Red Journal redjournal.org/article/S0360… @IJROBP from @harvardradonc, led by @danielbrosen and senior author @sophia_kamran @MGHCancerCenter [1/15]
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1 of the first Qs I had at the start of my radonc journey on @BenjaminKannMD's service was how worried should I be abt pneumonitis when treating patients on osimertinib? 2yrs later & w/ lots of help from an amazing BWH/DFCI/MGH team, I am excited to share: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article…
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🚀 your body composition research with age- and sex-adjusted reference values for skeletal muscle cross-sectional area, density, gauge, SMI on Chest and Abdomen CT of the Framingham Heart Study 🫀muscle-metrics.mgh.harvard.e… Free online Z-score calculator, including batch processing!!
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Grateful for how much I learned from you and Dr. Himmelstein while working on this together!
Our work with our colleague Nishu Uppal in @NEJM | nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE…
