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Professor and thoracic oncologist, ASCO Educational Book Editor in Chief, Vice Chair of Clinical Research, Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Center. Dad, dogs and cats living together, Steeler and Tarheel fan. All opinions mine. #Medsky #LCSM #Oncsky
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The Trump administration blocked key parts of the federal government’s apparatus for funding biomedical research, effectively halting progress on much of the country’s future work on illnesses like cancer despite a federal judge’s order to release grant money. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/s...

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Packed room at #TTLC25 and fantastic intro talk to EGFR therapy sequencing and unanswered questions by my colleague Dr Julia Rotow #lcsm #oncsky @danafarber.bsky.social @iaslc.bsky.social

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Medicare Advantage beneficiaries who are suing UnitedHealth Group over allegedly wrongful denials of care that were based on artificial intelligence scored a victory Thursday.

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Did someone leave Little Debbie valentine snack cakes in the workroom of uncertain provenance and age? And did I eat them? I’ll never tell!

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Promoting Reasonable Career Expectations + Maximizing Professional Fulfillment for Academic Oncologists @ascocancer.bsky.social Recs for Academic Med Ctrs ascopubs.org/doi/full/10.... @ahahospitals.bsky.social @aacicancer.bsky.social @cancerletter.com @aamctoday.bsky.social @oncoalert.bsky.social

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Promoting Reasonable Career Expectations and Maximizing Professional Fulfillment for Academic Oncologists: ASCO Recommendations for Academic Medical Centers ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/...

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Thanks to @jamessmurphy.bsky.social you can see about how much funding your state will lose each year from NIH indirect funding caps. In Ohio, it amounts to over $170 Million annually just from the loss of indirect costs. datawrapper.dwcdn.net/l0ZqA/9/

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Last year the spaces for our ALK Summit were filled in just 5 days. We've got another great line up planned this year. Encourage our patient and caregiver community to register now. Link below 👇

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1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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Vaccines do not cause autism. You’ve heard that before, but it's often repeated without an explanation of how we know that. Here's the explanation.

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jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... #lcsm #bcsm #pfcc

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In case your missed something at #ASCO #GI25, check out the coverage in #ASCODailyNews dailynews.ascopubs.org

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All in on this effort! Paging #MedSky colleagues!

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Excited to release the first issues of the 2025 #ASCOEdBook! And excited to see @ascocancer.bsky.social making the move to 🦋!

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Supplement your #GI25 experience with #ASCOEdBook review articles: brnw.ch/21wQeaY

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excellent piece by @mirandayaver.bsky.social in @statnews.com on how health insurers use administrative burdens to "ration by inconvenience" require prior auth, deny claims -- "it's ok because they can appeal" but the appeal process is daunting, confusing, takes a ton of time and effort etc

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not only are insurers effectively not liable for administrative burdens they place on patients an physicians as obstacles to care, but they are also incentivized by short-term savings even if it has long-term higher spending because they know people change insurance with jobs, age into medicare etc

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What a treat to be able to chat with ⁦‪@l_schapira‬⁩ about writing and the ⁦‪@ASCO‬⁩ ⁦‪@JCO_ASCO‬⁩ podcast Cancer Stories! And how intimidating to take over as host given the terrific job she has done these past years! ⁦

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Once again found that a task I was dreading and put off for months only took an hour or so once I set my mind to it. 🙄

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Important series on #FinancialToxicity from #JCOOP: Financial Toxicity in Cancer Care: Where Are We, and How Did We Get Here? Introduction to a Special Series ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/...

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Health insurers like UnitedHealth are under tremendous public scrutiny for tactics such as prior authorization and care denials.

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Calling for changes in how clinical research is regulated: "... greater oversight for studies with greater risks, uncertainties, and impacts on meaningful patient decisions—and more streamlined oversight for other types of research." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Good news but need to see the HR and subgroups here, wish they hadn’t teased the “1-year” improvement in median OS. The interim OS HR was 0.8 and 5% diff at 2 years so curve probably very flat around the median meaning median diff can be huge with less impressive HR. #LCSM

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CONTEXT: I wrote/drew this in 2020. Lol. Happy New Year!

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Starting TODAY, a key provision of the Inflation Reduction Act goes into effect: Limiting annual out-of-pocket spending on prescription drugs to $2,000 for Medicare beneficiaries. 19 million people are expected to save an average of $400 each.

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Asked the manchild to check in periodically so every hour or so I get one of these.

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