Lisa Force, MD, MPH

We need mask mandates in healthcare settings more than ever

Helpful hashtags for #cancer peeps!
#CanSky #OncSky #MedSky #HemeSky

Warning signs of childhood cancer

It's International #ChildhoodCancer Day.

Each year, 400 000 children & adolescents develop #cancer. Common types of childhood cancer include:

🔹Leukaemia
🔹brain tumours
🔹lymphomas
🔹solid tumours (such as neuroblastoma & Wilms tumour)

Learn more: bit.ly/2NeFF8B

Cure rate of children with cancer: More than 80% in high-income countries Less than 30% in most low- & middle-income countries.

💔 The disparity in #ChildhoodCancer cure rates is staggering:

📈 More than 80% cure rate in high-income countries
📉 Less than 30% in most low- & middle-income countries.

Ensuring equal access to care is the key to saving lives
👉 bit.ly/4hPDeWN

I finally understood what it means for global health to be in the world, but not of it

"Distance" is a great way to understand this notion

Thanks, Seye

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Somewhere in the U.S., there’s a scientist staring at their NSF/NIH grant application wondering why they bother. This post is for you. Science and society both need you. Hang in there and know there is a whole community supporting you.

How a WHO Staff Member Turned the US Withdrawal into an Act of Solidarity

How a WHO Staff Member Turned the US Withdrawal into an Act of Solidarity

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Someone shared this with me, and I think it's beautiful. That's what I wish for everyone I love and appreciate in this New Year 2025, that your life is filled with an abundance of real luxuries. ❤️

"Access to essential medicines remains a global challenge. Medicines consistently display high prices, low affordability, and poor availability"

Sobering study with data from 54 low-income and middle-income countries

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Instruments for racial health equity: a scoping review of structural racism measurement, 2019–2021 Abstract. Progress toward racial health equity cannot be made if we cannot measure its fundamental driver: structural racism. As in other epidemiologic stu

“Instruments for racial health equity: a scoping review of structural racism measurement, 2019–2021”

#SocEpi #EpiSky #Methods #HealthEquity

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How Peter Buxtun Exposed the Notorious Tuskegee Syphilis Scandal For years, he tried to expose the Tuskegee syphilis study – but no one would listen.

A (mostly) quiet hero.

Working in global health, I'm so rarely shocked by inequality anymore, but this is truly shocking

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#ASHKudos to Rachel Rau, Sumit Gupta, the whole AALL1731 study committee, all of our COG sites, and most importantly, our patients and families who made these results possible. So exciting to officially see these results on the big stage at #ASH24 (and presented by a great mentor too!)

I never tire of seeing these progressively improved pediatric ALL survival curves, which represent one of the most remarkable achievements in all of medicine.

Amazing to see even more improvement with bispecific antibody #immunotherapy presented in the #ASH24 Plenary session. #hematology #leukemia

The horse is out of the barn - financial toxicity is the unrecognized adverse event, and I am so proud of Dr. Greg Knight for his resilience in pioneering work to try to help manage it. @shematologist.bsky.social led an extraordinary Symposium on Quality at #ASH24 @ash-hematology.bsky.social

#ASH24 News: ASH Newborn SCD Screening Program in Sub-Saharan Africa Found Feasible: bit.ly/4faSNXk 🩸🌍

#ConquerSCD #Sicklecell #HemeSky #Hematology

Slide on financial toxicity of cancer care

Staggering statistics at #ASH24 #TreatingFairly

Patients with cancer who go bankrupt are nearly 80% more likely to die regardless of disease status.

Our system quite literally kills people.

"When a child doesn't respond to treatment or relapses, you don't know what really happened. Was it the cancer itself or was the medication at fault?" - Prof Lorna Renner

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Good call - ASH is added now!

This #GivingTuesday is the last day for 2024 #HCWvsHunger donations! If you’re able, you can help fight hunger with a donation to your choice of food bank. I hope for a 🌎 where individual donations aren’t needed, but in the meantime it sure feels good to make a dent in addressing food insecurity 🍎

Of course - both added, thanks and glad to be finding more #PHODocs on here!

Association Between Socioeconomic Factors and Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Treatment‐ and Survival‐Related Outcomes in Canada Background and Aims Studies examing the impact of socioeconomic factors on outcomes in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) have yielded inconsistent findings. We aimed to determine whether ...

Just published: Our Canadian collaboration demonstrated no clear association between Socioeconomic Factors & Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Outcomes onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#childhoodcancer #pedhemeonc #healthequity

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Creating a #PHODocs starter pack! Let me know who I’ve forgotten & if you’d like to be added 🙂

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I created a starter pack for global health organizations

Let me know who else I can add!

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Wow, such commitment! And a good reminder for me to donate today :)

‘Systematic reviews’ that aim to extract broad conclusions from many studies are in peril Fake papers are “poisoning the well” for these gold-standard syntheses, researchers say

A growing problem --- fake papers polluting systematic reviews. And interesting point that the gold-standard protocols that Cochrane is developing to weed out untrustworthy studies, are too much of an effort for systematic-review authors looking at 100s of papers. www.science.org/content/arti...

Ovarian Odyssey In this narrative medicine essay, a pediatrician thwarted a likely fatal cancer after undergoing genetic testing after noticing a pattern in her family that turned out to be caused by a genetic variat...

"My planned 'simple' total hysterectomy morphed into an 8½ hr marathon, agony 4 my poor family in the waiting room. Yet I consider myself incredibly lucky that my malignancy was found at a relatively early stage since #ovariancancer is ... 1/2

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It is now indisputable that pregnant women needing emergency care are being allowed to die in states that have banned & criminalized abortion

Yet somehow it’s fine to ask 🤰 trainees / faculty to travel to these states for medical conferences or miss out on professional opportunities? #idsky #medsky