Lola Fayanju, MD

Celebrity breast cancer announcements highlight rising rates in young women Breast cancer rates are rising faster in younger than older women. Doctors say multiple factors are likely to be at play, including lifestyle, hormones and environmental exposures.

Our Chief of breast surgery @drlolafayanju.bsky.social talks with @nbcnews.com about why we are seeing more and more young women diagnosed with breast cancer. www.nbcnews.com/health/women...

Celebrity breast cancer announcements highlight rising rates in young women Breast cancer rates are rising faster in younger than older women. Doctors say multiple factors are likely to be at play, including lifestyle, hormones and environmental exposures.

Several young celebrities announced #breastcancer diagnoses in the past year - reaffirming the rising rates among women under 50.

PC3I Program Director @drlolafayanju.bsky.social spoke with @nbcnews.com, recommending that young women with symptoms go to centers experienced in breast imaging. #bcsm

The Effect of Rurality on Time to Surgery and Overall... : Annals of Surgery hip between rurality, proximity to care, TTS, and OS remains unknown. Methods: We identified females≥18 years with stage 0-III breast cancer diagnosed 2004-2019 who received upfront surgery in the ...

New study led by Kriyana Reddy and @drlolafayanju.bsky.social finds that increased distance to care prolongs time to surgery (TTS) for rural patients with breast cancer. But rurality, independent of distance, has an intrinsic protective effect on TTS.

Addressing Racial Disparities, Social Barriers to Breast Cancer Care Strict inclusion criteria may disproportionately exclude racial minority populations from participating in breast cancer trials.

PC3I Program Director @drlolafayanju.bsky.social recently spoke with Cancer Network about potential initiatives to address racial disparities and other social barriers to receiving guideline-concordant #breastcancer care.

#bcsm #Oncsky #cansky

The Effect of Rurality on Time to Surgery and Overall Survival among Women with Breast Cancer - PubMed Although geographic proximity to care mediates the relationship between rurality and prolonged TTS, rurality has an intrinsic protective effect on TTS that is independent of the adverse effect of incr...

A new study finds that for rural breast cancer patients, living farther from care is associated with prolonged time to surgery (TTS). But rurality itself—independent of distance—is associated with shorter TTS.

Read more:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40143820/

Dr Cara Berkowitz presenting work from @drlolafayanju.bsky.social Penn Breast Surgery lab at #SSO2025

Trends in Guideline-Concordant Care for Inflammatory Breast Cancer - PubMed In this cohort study of women with nonmetastatic IBC, there were no disparities observed in GCC receipt, but only 25.1% of patients with IBC received all forms of GCC for which they were eligible. Amo...

A study by @drlolafayanju.bsky.social & colleagues found only 25% of women w/ inflammatory breast cancer received all guideline-concordant care. Among them, survival rates were similar across races—highlighting standardization as a way to improve equity. Read more: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40009385/

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

Black women are currently 0.8% of full Professors in US medical schools.
Black students represent about 4% of the MD-PhD candidates in US programs with significant attrition in these numbers regarding how many of us stick to it and try to make a career out of it.

As we watch all mention of diversity actively get scrubbed from the NIH website in real time it's important to know that, we were not taking over anything, we were just trying to exist.
- Only 2% of NIH R01 grants are awarded to Black investigators.
The goal is total erasure/elimination.

The entire website for the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) is very nearly stripped bare. This is so, so devastating. orwh.od.nih.gov/research/fun...

Congratulations to Melanie Pellecchia (@pennmedicine.bsky.social), @ally_mackey, Bo Zhen (@pennsas.bsky.social), @KateMcD_PhDRN (@PennNursing) & @andysltan.bsky.social (@asc.upenn.edu) on receiving the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists & Engineers! tinyurl.com/4yb6ka68

Kit Delgado Elected to American Society for Clinical Investigation Kit Delgado, MD, MS, LDI Senior Fellow and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Epidemiology at the Perelman School of Medicine, has been elected to the American Society for Clinical…

@kitdelgado.bsky.social, LDI Senior Fellow, has been elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI)!

His groundbreaking work in public health and emergency medicine is making a global impact.

Learn more: ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/res...

In @JAMASurgery, @drlolafayanju.bsky.social (@PennSurgery), @elliotthaut.bsky.social (@HopkinsSurgery) & @kmfitani1 (@VABostonHC) provide a practical guide to clinical big data sources @penncancer.bsky.social @PC3Innovation @pennldi.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

NK Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy. Ursula LeGuin’s Hainish series. Happy to see another fellow surgical book nerd and welcome your suggestions!