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Mashup Score: 0Major adverse financial events linked to higher mortality risk for certain cancer types - 11 day(s) ago
CHICAGO — Major adverse financial events such as bankruptcy, lien or eviction prior to a cancer diagnosis were associated with increased risk for all-cause and cancer-specific mortality for most cancers, according to study results.Findings presented at ASCO Annual Meeting showed nearly 37% of patients had experienced a major adverse financial event. Patients diagnosed with female breast,
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Burnout among health care workers has decreased since the COVID-19 public health emergency ended, but has not returned to prepandemic levels, according to findings from two studies.Results of a Veterans Health Administration (VA) survey, which receives more than 100,000 annual responses from health care workers, showed primary care physicians, dentists and those in mental health reported burnout
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📝 Survey results show #burnout has dropped since the pandemic ended but have not reached prepandemic levels. #COVID19 🗨️“We still have work to do,” @ShereefElnahal, former Under Secretary for Health at the Department of Veterans Affairs, told Healio. https://t.co/L14AiZ3pFF
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Despite increasing clinical awareness, more than half of U.S. adults do not know about the association between alcohol consumption and cancer risk, according to results of a survey study published in JAMA Oncology.Each year there are an estimated 75,000 cancer cases and 20,000 deaths related to alcohol consumption, making it one of the most preventable causes of cancer, according to Sanjay S.
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🔊 Despite increasing clinical awareness, more than half of U.S. adults do not know about the association between #alcohol consumption and #cancer risk. Healio spoke with a population health scientist from @MDAndersonNews about the data 👇 https://t.co/YL71pbCnml
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Mashup Score: 11Trastuzumab deruxtecan plus pertuzumab ‘nearly doubles’ disease control in breast cancer - 15 day(s) ago
CHICAGO — Trastuzumab deruxtecan plus pertuzumab showed significant improvement in PFS compared with taxane chemotherapy plus trastuzumab and pertuzumab across patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer.Interim results from the DESTINY-Breast-09 trial, presented at ASCO Annual Meeting, suggest trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd; Enhertu; AstraZeneca, Daiichi Sankyo) plus pertuzumab
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🆕 Data from #ASCO25 suggests that trastuzumab deruxtecan plus pertuzumab could be a new first-line standard of care treatment option for certain patients with #BreastCancer. Healio spoke with @stolaney1 of @DanaFarber about the DESTINY-Breast-09 trial 👇 https://t.co/xJOgbt08Fa
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Mashup Score: 4‘Promising results’ show AI may help detect interval breast cancer at earlier screening - 15 day(s) ago
AI could help radiologists identify a significant number of interval breast cancer cases earlier in the screening process, according to results of a retrospective study.A commercial AI program accurately flagged 30% of mammograms initially classified noncancerous that eventually got diagnosed as interval breast cancer. Some of these cases resulted from radiologists missing the cancer, and others
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💻 AI could help radiologists identify hard-to-detect signs and catch interval #breastcancer earlier. 🗨️ “It shows some promising results,” Tiffany T. Yu, MD @RadiologyUcla @dgsomucla said. https://t.co/j9cHuZM38y
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CHICAGO — Counties in the U.S. with the highest environmental burden, such as increased pollution, had significantly higher cancer incidence among multiple malignancy types compared with areas with the lowest burden.Breast, prostate and lung cancer incidence had the strongest associations with environmental burden, according to findings presented at ASCO Annual Meeting.
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🏭 Counties with high environmental burden — such as increased pollution — have significantly higher breast, prostate & lung cancer rates, per #ASCO25 data. #CancerResearch #EnvironmentalJustice #HealthEquity https://t.co/DXlHxFBWaR
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Mashup Score: 8IMG fellows demonstrate greater research productivity than American medical graduates - 16 day(s) ago
CHICAGO — International medical graduate hematology/oncology fellows demonstrate greater research productivity than American medical graduates even though they hold fewer advanced degrees, results presented at ASCO Annual Meeting showed.The findings support the “vital contributions” international medical graduate (IMG) fellows make to academic medicine, according to Arya Mariam
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🧬 At #ASCO25, new data showed that international medical graduate (IMG) Hem/Onc fellows outperform U.S. grads in research — despite holding fewer advanced degrees. Healio spoke with @royaryam of @OSUCCC_James about the data. @ASCO #MedTwitter #IMGstrong https://t.co/QmQjT3rotz
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In this episode, recorded live at the 2025 ASCO annual meeting, host Shikha Jain, MD, speaks with Sonali Smith, MD, about the power of mentorship and advocacy, preserving the academic mission of research within health care systems and more. Welcome to another exciting episode of Oncology Overdrive 1:34 About Smith 1:56 The interview 3:14 What was your journey to get to where you are now in your career? 3:38 How do you incorporate your advocacy work into patient care, and how do you advise other physicians
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In the latest episode of Oncology Overdrive: @SoniSmithMD talks with host @ShikhaJainMD at #ASCO about building the proper #mindset in your #earlycareer on when to say “yes” and “no” to new tasks. #podcast #healthcareresearch Listen now: https://t.co/WUDMzVQT7r https://t.co/SO70Xh7aNI
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Mashup Score: 2Major adverse financial events linked to higher mortality risk for certain cancer types - 18 day(s) ago
CHICAGO — Major adverse financial events such as bankruptcy, lien or eviction prior to a cancer diagnosis were associated with increased risk for all-cause and cancer-specific mortality for most cancers, according to study results.Findings presented at ASCO Annual Meeting showed nearly 37% of patients had experienced a major adverse financial event. Patients diagnosed with female breast,
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💰 Patients who experience a major adverse financial event prior to a cancer diagnosis are at increased risk for all-cause and cancer-specific mortality for most cancers. @DrRobinYabroff of @AmericanCancer spoke with Healio about data presented at #ASCO25 https://t.co/Ckj1h5Srq5
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CHICAGO — An analysis of oral presenters at ASCO Annual Meeting revealed considerable disparities based on career stage, gender, subspecialty and geographic region.Mid- to late-career medical oncologists from NCI-designated cancer centers in the Northeastern United States accounted for a disproportionate percentage of oral presenters over the past 4 years, results showed. Men presented from
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🎙️ Who dominates the mic during #ASCO? Mid- to late-career male #oncologists from NCI-designated centers, that’s who 👨⚕️ 🗨️This leaves “considerable room” to improve the diversity of oral presenters, noted Dr. Aysche Stern @TemeculaValHosp #ASCO25 https://t.co/raNIAHTQmH
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💰 Patients who experience a major adverse financial event prior to a cancer diagnosis are at increased risk for all-cause and cancer-specific mortality for most cancers. @DrRobinYabroff of @AmericanCancer spoke with Healio about data presented at #ASCO25 https://t.co/Ckj1h5Srq5