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Synapse: Your Connection to our MSK Authors
Meet: Sharafudeen Dahiru Abubakar
Research Focus: SKI Epidemiology/Biostatistics

Assessing racial disparities in guideline-concordant care and clinical outcomes after surgical resection of nonmetastatic colon cancer
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Synapse: Your Connection to our MSK Authors
Meet: Danielle Nadav
Res. Focus: Anesthesiology; Asst Attending

Paravertebral or serratus anterior plane block combined with PECS I (interpectoral) blocks versus paravertebral block for mastectomy: Trial 1507 patients

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Synapse: Your Connection to our MSK Authors
Meet: Joshua David Jorvina
Research Focus: Nursing; Clinical Trials Nurse III

Does transparency promote engagement? Cancer patients' access of electronic medical records before and after the information blocking rule
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Lung cancer in ‘never-smokers’ draws new focus — and questions In the United States and elsewhere, there’s been a major shift in patients treated for lung cancer.

Lung cancer in ‘never-smokers’ draws new focus — and questions

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#LungCancer #NeverSmokers #LungCancerAwareness #CancerResearch #ThoracicOncology#PrecisionMedicine #TargetedTherapy #EnvironmentalHealth #AirPollution #PublicHealth #CancerPrevention #OncologyResearch

Synapse: Your Connection to our MSK Authors
Meet: Nancy Kemeny
Research Focus: Medicine; NE Emeritus

Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma: Recurrence patterns, genomics, and survival
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#FightLiverCancer #CancerDataDriven
#UnderstandingCancer #CancerSurvivorship

Synapse: Your Connection to our MSK Authors
Meet: Ian Ganly
Research Focus: Surgery; Attending

The use of protons in the management of recurrent, previously irradiated adenoid cystic carcinoma
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#ProtonTherapy #AdenoidCysticCarcinoma #HeadAndNeckCancer

Synapse: Your Connection to our MSK Authors
Meet: Ana Catarina Gradissimo De Oliveira
Research Focus: Collaborative Research Centers | PIC Scientific Lead

Tumor ecosystem and microbiome drivers of response to avelumab + chemoradiotherapy in head & neck cancer.
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Synapse: Your Connection to our MSK Authors
Meet: Alvin Chun chin Goh
Research Focus: Surgery; Associate Attending

Re-analysis of intravesical gemcitabine in the era of Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG)
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#BladderCancer #NMIBC
#NonMuscleInvasiveBladderCancer

Synapse: Your Connection to our MSK Authors
Meet: Armaan Haseeb Siddiquee
Research Focus: SKI Pediatrics; Research Assistant

Antitumor activity of trastuzumab deruxtecan in pediatric solid tumors with variable HER2 expression
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#PediatricCancer #PediatricOncology

It’s the Gold Standard of Early Cancer Detection. For 40 Percent of Women, It Doesn’t Work. This is how I ended up in a roomful of women, all massaging our breasts.

She Had a Normal Mammogram. Then She Got Cancer.
About 40 percent of women have dense breast tissue that can hide cancer. Many don’t know what to do about it.

#DenseBreasts #EarlyDetection #KnowYourBreasts
#InformedScreening #BreastCancerAwareness #BreastScreening

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Synapse: Your Connection to our MSK Authors
Meet: Ethan Chi Ho Tse
Research Focus: Graduate Studies; NE WGS Student

Clinical and Molecular Characterization of KRAS-Mutated Renal Cell Carcinoma
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#RenalCellCarcinoma #KRAS #CancerGenomics

More than one-third of cancer cases are preventable, massive study finds Many cancers are linked to two modifiable habits: tobacco smoking and alcohol consumption.

More than one-third of cancer cases are preventable, massive study finds

Many cancers are linked to two modifiable habits: tobacco smoking and alcohol consumption.
#CancerPrevention #PreventableCancer
#PreventionMatters #PublicHealth #CancerResearch
#HealthAwareness

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#WorldCancerDay #NCCNGuidelines #EvidenceBasedCare #CancerResearch #Oncology

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Today is World Cancer Day (Feb 4). Here at MSK we stand united to raise awareness, support prevention and research, and honor every life touched by cancer. Together, we are stronger!

#WorldCancerDay #FindACure #CancerAwareness #CancerResearch #TogetherAgainstCancer #HopeAndHealing #TheMSKWay

Synapse: Your Connection to our MSK Authors
Meet: Mahak Kathpalia
Research Focus: Human Oncology & Pathogenesis Program;

Defining 2 biologically & clinically distinct groups in acute leukemia with a mixed phenotype
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#CancerBiology #TranslationalResearch

Love Data Week 2026 is approaching! Celebrated each February around Valentine’s Day, it highlights the vital role of data in research and everyday life. The 2026 ICPSR Data Fair brings resources, workshops, and conversations that make data more accessible and impactful.

#LoveDataWeek

In 2026, Black History Month celebrates 100 years of Black excellence, resilience, and cultural impact. Honoring our history means action. Salute to the MSK BLAM Team for leading the way every day!

#BlackHistoryMonth #MSKBLAM #MSKProud #DiversityInAction #HonoringOurHistory
#InclusiveExcellence

Synapse: Your Connection to our MSK Authors
Meet: Meghana Pagadala @meghana
Research Focus: Graduate Staff; Resident

Association of HOXB13 G84E with prostate cancer among 592,158 men
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#HOXB13 #G84E #ProstateCancer #ProstateCancerResearch

Synapse: Your Connection to our MSK Authors
Meet: Jeremy Setton
Research Focus: Radiation Oncology; Assistant Attending L1

AlphaMissense for identifying pathogenic missense mutations in DNA damage repair genes in cancer
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#AlphaMissense #MissenseMutations #Genes

Synapse: Your Connection to our MSK Authors
Meet: Andrea Cameron Marie Smith
Research Focus: Nursing; Nurse Leader

Oral self-management of palbociclib using mobile technology: Findings from a nurse-led randomized controlled trial

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#RandomizedControlledTrial

Synapse: Your Connection to our MSK Authors
Meet: Deaglan Joseph McHugh
Research Focus: Medicine; Assistant Attending L1

Olaparib and durvalumab in patients with DNA damage repair alterations and biochemically recurrent prostate cancer
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#ProstateCancer

#MSKResearch #BiomedicalDiscovery #GliomaResearch #CancerImmunology #GutMicrobiome #ScienceAdvances #CancerResearch

Synapse: Your Connection to our MSK Authors
Meet: Hong Zhang
Research Focus: Laboratory Medicine; Attending

Genomic landscape of breast cancer in elderly patients
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#GeriatricOncology #CancerGenomics #BreastCancerStudy #PersonalizedCancerCare

Synapse: Your Connection to our MSK Authors
Meet: Kevin Chen
Research Focus: Research Facilities; Research Assistant

Independent mechanisms of inflammation and myeloid bias in VEXAS syndrome
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#VEXAS #AutoinflammatoryDisease #MyeloidDisorders

Synapse: Your Connection to our MSK Authors
Meet: Michelle Wu
Research Focus: SKI Epidemiology/Biostatistics; Senior Project Manager

Tracking clonal evolution during treatment in ovarian cancer using cell-free DNA
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#OvarianCancer #ClonalEvolution
#CellFreeDNA

Synapse: Your Connection to our MSK Authors
Meet: Mithat Gonen
Research Focus: Biostat/Epidemiology; Attending

Evaluating post-T-DXd treatment strategies in HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer
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#HER2Positive #MetastaticBreastCancer
#TDXd #BreastCancerResearch

Synapse: Your Connection to our MSK Authors
Meet: Jennifer Defazio
Research Focus: Medicine; Associate Attending

Immuno-oncologyDupilumab for bullous pemphigoid related to immune checkpoint inhibitors: A retrospective case series
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#ImmunoOncology #Dupilumab

Synapse: Your Connection to our MSK Authors
Meet: Nicholas Alexander Pickersgill
Research Focus: Graduate Staff; Fellow

Diagnostic accuracy of biparametric vs. multiparametric MRI for clinically significant prostate cancer
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#ProstateCancerMRI #RadiologyResearch

Synapse: Our MSK Authors
Meet: Aron Peter Bercz
Research Focus: SKI Surgery

The value of MRI and flexible sigmoidoscopy in detecting tumor regrowth in watch and wait rectal cancer patients undergoing active surveillance after total neoadjuvant therapy
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#RectalCancer