Angela Alexander PhD

My work MacBook Pro battery lasted 1 hour and 15 minutes today :(. I wish batteries continued working properly past a year - my experience is usually they decline rapidly after 1 yr.

Development of a Multi-Institutional Dataset to Validate a Novel Inflammatory Breast Cancer Diagnostic Score AbstractPurpose. Susan G. Komen, the Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC) Research Foundation, and the Milburn Foundation convened patient advocates, clinician

MD Anderson & Dana Farber IBC programs have collected published a validation paper for the new proposed scoring system to improve the diagnosis of #InflammatoryBreastCancer. Check it out @JNCI academic.oup.com/jnci/advance... Public-version of tool @ Komen www.komen.org/ibc-calculat...

Neoadjuvant nivolumab and chemotherapy in early estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer: a randomized phase 3 trial Nature Medicine - In the CheckMate 7FL trial, neoadjuvant nivolumab and chemotherapy in patients with newly diagnosed, high-risk estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer led to an increased...

summary CM-7FL @oncoalert.bsky.social
@naturemedicine.bsky.social link: rdcu.be/d8Cw4.
Here Nivo ⬆️ pCR rates in high grade HR+ BC. Increasing pCR rates in this subtype is HARD! PD-L1+ & #TIL higher pCR. This study will change how we think about HR+BC- some are immunogenic & need PD-1i with chemo

Tonight’s dinnertime reading. Interesting and highly concerning.

These are the good guys supporting DEI. Reward them with your business.

Costco
Meijer
Kroger
Giant Grocery
Ben & Jerry’s
Ulta, Macy’s
Old Navy
Nordstrom’s
TJ Maxx
GoTo Foods ( Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon…)
Dollar Tree
Walgreens
Wegmans

In over 460,000 women throughout Germany, #AI second readings of mammograms led to improved breast cancer detection, a lower recall rate, and significantly reduced workload
nature.com/articles/s41... open-access

Todays emails:

Give me money for xxxxx. <ugh>

What’s new in breast cancer research? SABCS24 looks at ctDNA, AI and ‘right-sizing’ treatment More than 11,000 researchers, clinicians, patient advocates and drugmakers gathered last week at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium to share the latest treatments, tricks and tools to take down b...

Did you miss #SABCS24 last week? No worries! Here's my @fredhutch.bsky.social SABCS24 wrap story w/insights into #cancer treatments & #cannabis; #ctDNA; #obesity & #epigenetics, #FES-PET & much more. #cansky #oncocsky #medsky #bcsm @thankscancer.bsky.social

www.fredhutch.org/en/news/cent...

Does anyone use pocket to save articles for later reading from here? My share function is not working - get error below. Anyone else confirm or have success? I am logged into pocket app btw, no difference.

Abstracts on inflammatory breast cancer that will be presented at San Antonio breast cancer symposium.

Abstract on inflammatory breast cancer that will be presented at the San Antonio breast cancer symposium

Check out the @mdanderson.bsky.social #bcsm #oncsky Inflammatory breast cancer program highlights at #SABCS24 1000 pt registry outcomes, CDK4/6 efficacy, BostonGene data new signaling and more! @debeblab.bsky.social Thanks @talkibc.bsky.social for the support!!

Yes if I don’t know them. If it’s a familiar person from twitter or real life then I don’t screen.

What is the best time of the month to treat breast cancer? #Nature

"Breast Cancer: Menstrual cycle may affect chemotherapy sensitivity"

Open Access
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

YouTube video by Dr. Glaucomflecken No More General Anesthesia

One thing I didn’t expect in the wake of the CEO shooting is the sudden attention on health insurance policy. I have seen this video and the BCBS policy itself go viral on almost every platform. People are waking up. Real lasting change in healthcare is coming. youtube.com/shorts/vWA2a...

MRI images finding the cancer from an abnormal maternal DNA test

When the prenatal cell-free DNA test turns up unsuspected cancer
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Preserving Telehealth Preserving Telehealth Many U.S. telehealth benefits are set to expire shortly at the end of this year (December 31, 2024). With this email campaign, you can simply fill out your information and it wi...

Unless Congress acts in the next three weeks, Medicare will stop covering telehealth.

For people too sick to leave home for months, including millions who have been disabled by Covid, this will mean losing all access to healthcare.

Please sign this petition urging your representatives to act

Immune checkpoint landscape of human atherosclerosis and influence of cardiometabolic factors - Nature Cardiovascular Research Barcia Durán, Dayasagar, et al. map the expression of immune checkpoints in human atherosclerosis and examine the influence of lipid-lowering treatments and type 2 diabetes to understand how immune checkpoint inhibitors worsen cardiovascular risk in survivors of cancer.

A study in Nature Cardiovascular Research maps the expression of immune checkpoints in atherosclerosis and examines the influence of lipid-lowering treatments and type 2 diabetes to understand how immune checkpoint inhibitors worsen cardiovascular risk in cancer survivors. 🧪

Death of Star vs Birth of Cell

🎨 In case anyone need…

The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏!

Check it out 👇
bioart.niaid.nih.gov