@leonidasplatan1.bsky.social
Director of the Lurie Cancer Center @luriecancer.bsky.social of Northwestern University. Medical oncologist and cancer researcher. Views & opinions here are my own.
“Τι νέοι που φτάσαμεν εδώ, στο έρμο νησί, στο χείλος
του κόσμου, δώθε απ’ τ’ όνειρο και κείθε απ’ τη γη!”
Kostas Karyotakis (1896 - 1928)
With our amazing community advisory board of @luriecancer.bsky.social today!
16.06.2025 19:38 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Μέρα του Απρίλη
Πράσινο λάμπος,
γελούσε ο κάμπος
με το τριφύλλι.
Ως την εφίλει
το πρωινό θάμπος,
η φύση σάμπως
γλυκά να ομίλει.
Εκελαδούσαν
πουλιά, πετώντας όλο πιο πάνω.
Τ’ άνθη ευωδούσαν.
Κι είπε απορώντας: «Πώς να πεθάνω;»
Διάκος poem
Kostas Karyotakis (1896 -1928)
A woman, a man, and the start line for a race. There is a purple and white balloon arch, under which a banner reads “Cancer Survivors’ Walk.”
A man and a woman, haha, both wearing sunglasses.
People signing and photographing a white banner.
A crowd is gathered in front of a stage, all wearing various types of workout clothes. The Chicago skyline is in the distant background.
Happy National Cancer Survivors Day from Grant Park, site of the Lurie Cancer Center 32nd Annual Cancer Survivors’ Celebration Walk & 5K! #GoCats💜
Nice to finally meet you, @leonidasplatan1.bsky.social!
Great. I look forward to seeing you there!
29.05.2025 11:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The @luriecancer.bsky.social (LCC) went thru the competing renewal of NCI designation. For a 2nd time we got "exceptional" ranking. The NCI site visit team gave us a "perfect exceptional" (equivalent to 10). LCC is one of few in the nation and the only one in IL to ever achieve exceptional status.
28.05.2025 16:04 — 👍 36 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 2One of the worst possible premieres of a symphony, was the premiere of Symphony #1 of Rachmaninoff in 1897.
It was conducted by Glazunov (a famous composer himself later) who was drunk at the time and was disastrous. Rachmaninoff suffered severe depression after that.
All the big breakthroughs in cancer have started with NIH and NCI funded research.
Every single medication or curative approach used in cancer patients is the direct or indirect result of NIH/NCI funded research.
Johanna Senfter (1879 - 1961) was a remarkable composer with amazing violin and piano works.
Her only recorded Symphony 4, has very strong Brucknerian influences and is absolutely stunning. But she has written 9 in total. Hard to understand why her work is being ignored.
The reason so many diseases are cured has been the investment of the USA to medical research via NIH support.
Without strong support for the NIH, important medical breakthroughs would have never happened. And drugs that cure or control diseases would have never existed.
“No, science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere”.
Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
"A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "universe," a part limited in time and space."
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
“The task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees."
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
Cancer mortality rates have been dropping because of NIH and NCI funded research to Universities. Without it there would be no new cancer treatments that save lives.
22.04.2025 12:09 — 👍 82 🔁 22 💬 0 📌 2“Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.”
Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895)
“Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.”
Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895)
The impact of science and medicine in saving billions of lives can not be measured in dollars. Human life is priceless.
19.04.2025 13:56 — 👍 94 🔁 18 💬 3 📌 1Since its discovery in 1882, over 1 billion people have died from tuberculosis, including great composers, like Chopin, Purcell, Lili Boulanger, Stravinsky.
One can only imagine how the world would be today if medical research had not found TB drugs.
Science is priceless.
"History shows us the life of nations and can find nothing to relate except wars and insurrections; the years of peace appear here and there only as short pauses, as intervals between the acts".
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
“Everything I discovered was new and most of it was really valuable”.
Alice Hamilton (1869 - 1970)
Chicago
16.04.2025 01:05 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0symphony 2. All his symphonies are great.
13.04.2025 21:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Alfredo Casella is one of the greatest Italian composers of all time. And his classical music compositions are not Italian at all. Heavy Mahler and Strauss influence. And even a hint of Bruckner.
But very unique style. Incredible composer.
One of the saddest, but also most beautiful, compositions by an American composer is the Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber. It was written during the Great Depression in 1938, and reflects the feelings and sadness of that era.
A remarkable piece of classical music.
This needs to be amplified. The unfortunate increase in cancers in young individuals, especially for colorectal cancer, has created a public narrative that cancer rates are increasing
02.04.2025 13:03 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0The data are clear. Cancer mortality rates have been decreasing. And this is, undoubtedly, because of cancer research that results in new treatments. Medical research saves lives.
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Symphony 2 of Mahler is incredible. It is a unique combination of deep inspiration, emotional power and hope.
Among the best performances of this symphony is the one by Gustavo Dudamel with the Berliner Philarmoniker. Exceptional.
“The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.”
Alexander Graham Bell (1847 - 1922)
