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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 consultant #oncology pharmacist working in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧. #PharmSky #OncoSky Interested in #OncoPharm, Data science, #Rstats, Visualisation. ⛵🍝🥌🏞️📷🖥️ Self declared geek. Breast #bcsm, Prostate #pcsm, Lower GI #crcsm, Upper GI #esocsm & HPB #hpbcsm chemo.org.uk
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People with cancer face ‘ticking timebomb’ due to NHS staff shortages

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I've just read an article that said "patients lived a median average of ... 7.92 months compared to 5.49 months" A median what? The other day I saw something that said the mean average. Are we just inventing words now?

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In women with node-positive breast cancer whose nodes became free of disease after neoadjuvant therapy, regional nodal irradiation did not reduce breast cancer recurrence or improve survival. Full results from a phase 3 trial: nej.md/4dM6LjD #MedSky #Oncology

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On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt made a series of claims about the BBC's coverage of events in Gaza on Sunday. We've looked at the claims - and the number of misrepresentations and untruths that they contained. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

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‼️ #ASCO25 #JCOOA simultaneous publication by O'Neill et al:  Implementation of a Medication Reconciliation Televisit Model in Phase I Oncology Clinical Trials. Read the full article: brnw.ch/21wT6uo @pamelakunzmd.bsky.social

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📢 📢 27th Annual BOPA Conference October 2024 - Abstracts now published. Congratulations to all authors. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... Please contact the research sub-committee for support. Abstracts presented: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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📢 📢 2025 BOPA Conference: Registration NOW OPEN! For MEMBERS click here: www.bopa.org.uk/bopa-2025-me... BOPA members receive a reduced conference fee of £300 (including VAT) if booked by Monday 8th September. Preferential rates at hotels nearby. For NON-MEMBERS click here: eur.cvent.me/OKgO4O

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📢 📢 BOPA 2025 Conference update ... 🔔 BOPA’s ‘Grant for the 2025 Conference’ and BOPA’s ‘Above and Beyond’ Awards are now open! 🗓️ Deadline for applications are on 31st July 2025. 💷 Gilead - www.bopa.org.uk/the-bopa-tra... 🥇 BOPA’s ‘Above and Beyond’ Award - www.bopa.org.uk/aboveandbeyo...

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What's going on? Gastrointestinal cancers getting winners at #ASCO almost unheard of and we get: ⭐adjuvant IO-FOLFOX (Colorectal) ⭐neo-adjuvant IO-FLOT (Gastric)

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First up, Dr. Frank Sinicrope from @mayocliniccancer.bsky.social presents ATOMIC, chemo +/- atezolizumab as adjuvant tx for Stage III deficient mismatch repair colon cancer. 50% reduction in recurrence or death at 3 years: 3-year DFS 86.4 vs 76.6%, HR 0.50 (P<0.0001). OS data not mature #ASCO25

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MATTERHORN manuscript published today in the New England Journal of Medicine. #ASCO25 www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

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In advanced breast cancer, progression-free survival was significantly longer with vepdegestrant than with fulvestrant among patients with ESR1 mutations but not in the full patient population. Full VERITAC-2 phase 3 trial results: nej.md/3ZoCL7g #ASCO25 @ascocancer.bsky.social

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Test Poll. Tell me something 1️⃣ Numerical option 🅱️ Letter option 👍 Thumb option ✅ Tick option 📊 Show results

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Ugh. This study is so frustrating. Subsequent therapy... Patients who received SoC first line... Only 57% received subsequent Tx (seems oddly low) and only 71% received SoC. So here is what we now know...

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Numbers vs. Words Round 2: "Binfluencer" vs. "3435" @susiedent.com puts forward an excellent example of a portmanteau, whilst @tomrocksmaths.bsky.social opts for the only known 'Munchausen number'. Which is your favourite? Cast your vote here: tomrocksmaths.com/2025/05/30/n...

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Wow. @nejm.org really pulling to #SoMe engagement out the bag. #Cats #Dogs #Stats #Cartoon

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The latest Stats, STAT! animated video from NEJM Evidence describes the use of restricted mean survival time in survival analysis when the proportional hazards assumption is not met. 📺 Full video and transcript: eviden.cc/42YS8FQ #StatsSky #Statistics

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Azithromycin can no longer be used for acne, stomach ulcers, or asthma prevention per EMA’s new recommendation. A key move against #antimicrobialresistance. Details 👉 www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/chan...

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💫#ONCOnews💫 🚨 Breaking: ASCENT-03: Trodelvy® boosts PFS in 1L metastatic TNBC patients ineligible for checkpoint inhibitors ✅ Second positive Phase 3 trial vs chemo 🔬 Advances treatment options in frontline TNBC 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/ONCOnews26M-1 #OncoAlert #OncEd #BreastCancer #CancerResearch

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The Telegraph has deleted the seemingly made-up article titled “We earn £345k but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays” featuring “Al & Alexandra Moy” from its website... but, if interested, you can access an archived version here. h/t @alanrew.bsky.social archive.is/s1GPF

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I've never seen it so well put before.

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