Abigail Johnston

I’ll be sharing my cancer-related thrombosis story at this webinar. If you are a cancer patient, or are caring for one, please register for free. Info 👇

A Podcast About Podcasts: Podcasts as Educational Tools for Providers (and Patients) | Podcast | ASCO Publications Dr. Chino welcomes Dr. Vivek Patel and Dr. Eleonora Teplinsky to discuss a recent article in JCO OP that reported a podcast-based curriculum could improve knowledge and comfort with common education t...

I am happy to welcome 2️⃣ guests to discuss the role of podcasts to improve information sharing. They are both podcast hosts, making this @ascocancer.bsky.social 's 1st podcast about podcasts.
 
🎙️Drs Patel The Fellow on Call & @drteplinsky.bsky.social Interlude Podcast

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Today would have been Gwen’s birthday. She was stolen from us by MBC.

Graphic showing Metavivor is participating in the Community Resource Village at the American Cancer Society breast cancer walk at Soldier Field in Chicago on October 18

Start your Saturday with @metavivor.bsky.social at the @americancancersoc.bsky.social walk at Chicago’s Soldier Field! Come on down, rain or shine #cansky

Hope you will consider participating! @thankscancer.bsky.social #oncosky #oncsky #bcsm #cansky 3/3

Interested in sharing about yto consider participating. You can learn more here: www.mbcalliance.org/this-is-my-m.... There's also a place to sign up to receive information as people add their stories and sharing has begun. 2/3

Interested in sharing about your experience of living with MBC? The Metastatic Breast Cancer Alliance has launched a new initiative designed to educate the public on the experience of living with MBC and I would like to invite anyone who is living with MBC or their person is living with MBC 1/3

Just Dx'd w/#metastatic #breastcancer & looking 4 support, #clinicaltrials, new treatments? Check out this FREE pt event Sat, Nov 1, 8-3:15 PDT at @fredhutch.org. Topics include: financial health, sexual health, new #MBC treatmnts, nutrition, exercise, CTs & more! #CanSky @thankscancer.bsky.social

MBC BCAM awareness #2 Good morning! Picking up where I left off last week with Breast Cancer Awareness month educational tiles from Metavivor: In 2017, I was 38 and had never had a mammogram because I did not yet meet the criteria for screening. I received my first mammogram in the process of my de novo diagnosis and if I had been getting mammograms, the density of my breast tissue and the fact I was breastfeeding would have affected the results. Every person needs to know their individual risk and which screening and diagnostic testing is the best for their body.

MBC BCAM awareness #2

Good morning! Picking up where I left off last week with Breast Cancer Awareness month educational tiles from Metavivor: In 2017, I was 38 and had never had a mammogram because I did not yet meet the criteria for screening. I received my first mammogram in the process of my…

Such a great way to put it! I did a few decades as a trial attorney and had too many medical malpractice cases to think any doctor gets it right all the time. I’m up to 42 medical mistakes that I have caught in the 8 years I’ve been living with MBC. We all do our best.

That’s probably the best place to start and then a genetic counselor will be your guide if there are results you need to address.

What you need to know about lobular breast cancer Dr. Cassann Blake, a breast surgical oncologist at the Cleveland Clinic, on lobular breast cancer.

Great 2C #lobular #breastcancer coverd by @cbsnews.com but it wld have been helpful 2 mention:

*Lobular #BC dsn't usually make lumps
*So it's often not felt or seen on mamms
*Esp in dense breast tissue
*It's abt changes, not lumps!
*More info @lobularbca.bsky.social
#CanSky #MedSky #CancerBS #bcsm

I don’t trust any medical provider absolutely and regularly get second opinions to obtain different pieces of the puzzle so I can make the best decision. Oncology isn’t black and white and there are many gray areas. No one has all the answers.

Spotlight on lobular breast cancer: What patients, PCPs & oncologists need to know Hear from Fred Hutch experts about lobular breast cancer’s history, screening and surveillance challenges, new findings and clinical trials.

Just diagnosed w/#lobular #breastcancer & wondering what the heck that is? Join me & @fredhutch.org #ILC experts THIS Wed OCT 15 3-5pm in person or via Zoom 4 a breakdown of new research, #clinicaltrials & more. Register 👇👇
@thankscancer.bsky.social #CanSky #bcsm

www.fredhutch.org/en/events/sp...

Have you had genetic testing to see if there is a genetic mutation in your family?

Catching up on some MBC BCAM awareness! Each October, Metavivor shares tiles of educational information and 2025 is no different. I'll be sharing information throughout the month as I have the time/bandwidth and today I'm catching up on the first week of tiles: Approximately 117 people in the United States die every day from Stage IV Metastatic Breast Cancer (MBC) -- that's the equivalent of a plane load of people falling out of the sky to their deaths every single day.

Catching up on some MBC BCAM awareness!

Each October, Metavivor shares tiles of educational information and 2025 is no different. I'll be sharing information throughout the month as I have the time/bandwidth and today I'm catching up on the first week of tiles: Approximately 117 people in the…

www.msn.com/en-us/news/p... "Morality is not a buffet"....pope's words remind people that #pro-life means taking care of others, no killing, etc.

This and the funding cuts for cancer research could literally kill me.

I can't even describe what that feels like. 😟

#Cancer #Stage4 #Melanoma #Metastatic #CancerResearch #CanSky #DermSky

Hey my #Cansky folks. I’m happy to announce Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center is hosting a young adults cancers symposium in November! Come join me.

It’s FREE for patients. Would appreciate anyone spreading the word 🫶🏻 #Oncsky #Medsky

I’m excited and honored to say I will be joining the Judy Nicholson Kidney Cancer Foundation Board of Directors in 2026.

I could never imagine when I was first diagnosed that I would dive headfirst into cancer advocacy. But here we are.

It’s October Again … 2025 While we don't see the fall seasons so much here in Florida from the trees, the rising incidences of pink smothered whatever always reminds me that October has arrived. Similar to other holidays, retailers get a start earlier and earlier in the year to capitalize on a larger timeline for sales. And while some of the most egregious perpetrators of Pinkwashing have been confronted and some have adjusted their behaviors, it's still something that is pretty clearly happening more than it should.

It’s October Again … 2025

While we don't see the fall seasons so much here in Florida from the trees, the rising incidences of pink smothered whatever always reminds me that October has arrived. Similar to other holidays, retailers get a start earlier and earlier in the year to capitalize on a…

Navigating the Gray Areas of Cancer Treatment

Just popping in with a quick update as I've been remiss lately in keeping everyone updated. When so much is happening and changing in a short period of time, it's easy to forget that everyone else isn't doing this strange one foot in medical offices…

It IS a ridiculous policy and insurance companies take advantage.

I’m on the fence as to whether this would actually help. It seems to be adding unnecessary red tape to me but I’m also not a fan of fail first or step therapy generally. Why should anyone have to suffer through meds that won’t help when there is something that can?

Such a fascinating article.

🎙️ Exciting news! Our new podcast, “Live from Stage 4,” is here. Join us as we dive deep into the real stories.
👉 Visit livefromstage4.org and follow us for updates! #cansky #oncosky #oncsky #mbc

Pediatric Brain Cancer Group to Lose Federal Funding

Thank you @nytimes.com for featuring this upsetting news about the loss of #childhoodcancer funding for #braintumors. It was my pleasure to speak with #NinaAgrawal for this piece. But I wish circumstances were different and we didn't need this article at all.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...

Let's get politics the f*ck out of #publichealth. #IDSky #CanSky