Wendy Woodward, MD, PhD

Finding the Magic, Just in Time (Published 2025)

Another amazing life story cut short by inflammatory breast cancer. I found Clare’s NYT podcast and article unexpectedly, while scrolling last year. I loved hearing she had found love. And I’m so sorry she didn’t get more time. Rest in peace Clare. #IBC #cansky
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/p...

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Private money cannot replace public funding of science Who should pay for American science? In the current political climate, many are looking to the private sector to compensate for cuts in public funding. At the Harvard School of Public Health—particula...

A response to the opinion that private $ can replace the NIH.

Businesses are not charities. They work on profit margins. Decades of $ is essential for research to progress from an initial discovery to treatment. Most of the dirty work goes on in academic labs.

🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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I’ve been emailing a ton of politicians and their staffers recently, and they NEVER respond outside of work hours. Don’t they know they can do it as long as they put a disclaimer at the end??

When I Got Aggressive Cancer At 29, I Couldn't Believe What My Friends Began To Imply About My Diagnosis - HuffPost #cansky

Black-and-white portrait of Dr. Jane C. Wright (1919–2013), pioneering Black surgeon, oncologist, and "mother of chemotherapy," seated at a laboratory workbench in a clinical research setting. She wears a white lab coat over a dark top and gazes directly at the camera with a composed, focused expression. In front of her is a large compound microscope with multiple objective lenses, adjustment knobs, and a stage, positioned prominently in the foreground. Her left hand rests near an open notebook or lab record book on the table, while stacks of papers or slides are visible nearby. The background shows softly blurred lab equipment and shelving, evoking a mid-20th-century medical research environment.

"Mother of Chemotherapy" Dr. Jane Wright died #OTD in 2013.

+ Helped shift cancer treatment from palliative care to modern chemotherapy by establishing methotrexate as a foundational treatment for breast cancer in 1951
+ Only woman co-founder, American Society of Clinical Oncology #WomenInSTEM #BHM

Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus, researchers say A Stanford University team have tested their nasal spray vaccine in animals but still need to do human clinical trials.

A single nasal spray vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus, as well as bacterial lung infections, and may even ease allergies, says U.S. researchers.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

When I was in Houston this week, I stopped by a coffee shop that employs people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

It can seem like a small thing, but as a child psychiatrist, I know how important it is for all people to feel supported, seen & welcomed at work 🌱

‘Shattered’: US scientists speak out about how Trump policies disrupted their careers Researchers lay bare the human toll of lay-offs, funding cuts and attacks on science one year after the president’s return to the White House.

The work done at federal agencies went unacknowledged b/c we were used to qualified experts making decisions. You don't create experts out of thin air.

"The beauty of academic research is that people could stick w/ hard problems for a long time to make progress."

🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

MD Anderson and SOPHiA GENETICS Announce Strategic Collaboration to Accelerate AI-Driven Precision Oncology - OncoDaily MD Anderson and SOPHiA GENETICS Announce Strategic Collaboration to Accelerate AI-Driven Precision Oncology / cancer, Donna Hansel, J. Bryan, MD Anderson, MD

MD Anderson and SOPHiA GENETICS Announce Strategic Collaboration to Accelerate AI-Driven Precision Oncology

@mdanderson.bsky.social

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#OncoDaily #Oncology #Cancer #Health #Medicine #MedTwitter #MedEd #MedOnc #MedNews #MDAnderson #SOPHiAGENETICS

Black and white blue eyed cat on a white bed spread.

Happy Caturday from sweet Higgs. #caturday

You can’t import another country’s vaccine policy without first importing their actual healthcare system.

Our vaccine recommendations fill structural gaps in our healthcare system, which is widely regarded as fragmented, inaccessible to many, and riven with inequalities.

How the CDC's vaccine guidance changes could affect your next pediatrician visit The CDC on Monday dramatically reduced the number of vaccines it recommends for all children. Here’s what parents should know.

Many doctors rely on an automated system that flags when a patient is due for a vaccine based on the CDC recommendations. The system does not flag vaccines that fall into the shared decision-making category meaning a child may miss a life-saving vaccine.
www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-...

RFK Jr.’s Next Move Is What Anti-Vaxxers Have Been Waiting For — The Atlantic Nothing seems to be stoppingthe health secretaryfrom driving America over a vaccine cliff.

RFK Jr.’s Next Move Is What Anti-Vaxxers Have Been Waiting For - The Atlantic apple.news/AOXesItUBQ7u...

Tennessee actually just did something amazing for women | Arwa Mahdawi The state has created the first registry in the US to track repeat domestic violence offenders

Tennessee--consistently in the top 10 states for domestic violence homicides--created the first US registry to track repeat DV offenders. Savanna's Law: named for Savanna Puckett, killed by her ex-bf, who suffocated her dog & had a history of DV & stalking. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Shows a colon with a brown cancer. Exosomes are packages coming off the cancer in purple and grey. Cell free DNA also is floating.

Blood Test Identifies Colon Cancer in Adults Ages 20-35 With 98.5% Accuracy

Study: An Exosome-Based Liquid Biopsy for the Detection of Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer: The ENCODER Multicenter Study buff.ly/xi4fYNY

#medsky #GIsky 🛟🧪

To me it makes sense that incidence and arguing increased in part due to sweeping in the last bucket, I can see my family in that last bucket. Maybe a stretch but the benefit of SSRI is night and day & not anti-depressive- maybe b/c it makes up for fewer synapses? Stretch hypothesis but adds up.

Same! Makes so much sense thinking about my family’s experience.

Science for the win👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻🎉🎉

These simple knife tricks stop onion tears instantly With a high-speed camera and a tiny guillotine, scientists showed that chopping onions slowly and with sharper knives cuts down on tears.

Cooking a holday dinner? Save your tissues. This cutting technique slashes tears when chopping onions. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/knife-tricks-stop-onion-cutting-crying

Scientists reverse Alzheimer’s in mice and restore memory Alzheimer’s has long been considered irreversible, but new research challenges that assumption. Scientists discovered that severe drops in the brain’s energy supply help drive the disease—and restorin...

Scientists reverse Alzheimer’s in mice and restore memory. For more than 100 years, Alzheimer’s disease has been treated as a one-way decline—but new research is aiming for a cure.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Researchers identify Rb1 as a predictive biomarker for a new therapeutic strategy in some breast cancers A new study published today in Science Translational Medicine by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center details a therapeutic vulnerability in patients with an aggressive subtype of triple-negative breast cancer.

MD Anderson researchers have identified Rb1 deficiency as a key therapeutic vulnerability for some aggressive breast cancers, including triple-negative and estrogen receptor–positive tumors.

How this finding could shape treatment strategies: spr.ly/63328CZpQu #OncSky #EndCancer

Now online in Cancer Discovery @aacrjournals.bsky.social: Residual Breast Cancer Cells Co-opt SOX5-driven Endochondral Ossification to Maintain #Dormancy - by @amulyasreekumar.bsky.social, Lewis Chodosh, and colleagues doi.org/10.1158/2159... @pennmedicine.bsky.social @penncancer.bsky.social

Amy Diehl signing copies of GLASS WALLS paperback

Release Day! GLASS WALLS is now available in more accessible formats: paperback and audiobook. Learn how to identify workplace gender bias and how to stop it.

Order here: amy-diehl.com/book

Great job by all of my trainees and team at #SABCS2025!!

Honored to moderate the outstanding local therapy session! Three trials now coalesce around 8Gy x 3 to a small preop focus as an immune engaging dose in breast cancer. Exciting space to watch! Interesting radiation analyses from Insema too. #radoncsky #cansky #sabcs2025

Meeting invite for inflammatory breast cancer champions at SABCS Wednesday 12/10 8:30 room 303B

IBC meeting opportunity @sabcs.bsky.social Wednesday 8:30 am- Room 303B - clinical teams, advocates interested in community IBC care please come engage in a discussion on improving consistent care everywhere! #thinkibc #cansky