Wendy Woodward, MD, PhD
@ibcradiation.bsky.social
Radiation oncologist, inflammatory breast cancer doctor and researcher at MDACC (posts are my own). #medsky #radonc #bcsm #oncsky #cansky #radoncsky
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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
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Thrilled to share work from our @mdanderson.bsky.social IBC team & the IBC team at @dfcibreastonc.bsky.social led by Dr. Filipa Lynce Komen and @ibcresearch1.bsky.social support to validate a new IBC scoring system to improve IBC diagnosis! #medsky #ibcsky #cansky academic.oup.com/jnci/advance...
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A single nasal spray vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus, as well as bacterial lung infections, and may even ease allergies, says U.S. researchers.
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Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus, researchers say
A Stanford University team have tested their nasal spray vaccine in animals but still need to do human clinical trials.
www.bbc.com
February 20, 2026 at 3:35 AM
A single nasal spray vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus, as well as bacterial lung infections, and may even ease allergies, says U.S. researchers.
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When I was in Houston this week, I stopped by a coffee shop that employs people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
It can seem like a small thing, but as a child psychiatrist, I know how important it is for all people to feel supported, seen & welcomed at work 🌱
It can seem like a small thing, but as a child psychiatrist, I know how important it is for all people to feel supported, seen & welcomed at work 🌱
February 4, 2026 at 1:00 PM
When I was in Houston this week, I stopped by a coffee shop that employs people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
It can seem like a small thing, but as a child psychiatrist, I know how important it is for all people to feel supported, seen & welcomed at work 🌱
It can seem like a small thing, but as a child psychiatrist, I know how important it is for all people to feel supported, seen & welcomed at work 🌱
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The work done at federal agencies went unacknowledged b/c we were used to qualified experts making decisions. You don't create experts out of thin air.
"The beauty of academic research is that people could stick w/ hard problems for a long time to make progress."
🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"The beauty of academic research is that people could stick w/ hard problems for a long time to make progress."
🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Shattered’: US scientists speak out about how Trump policies disrupted their careers
Researchers lay bare the human toll of lay-offs, funding cuts and attacks on science one year after the president’s return to the White House.
www.nature.com
February 3, 2026 at 1:24 AM
The work done at federal agencies went unacknowledged b/c we were used to qualified experts making decisions. You don't create experts out of thin air.
"The beauty of academic research is that people could stick w/ hard problems for a long time to make progress."
🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"The beauty of academic research is that people could stick w/ hard problems for a long time to make progress."
🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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MD Anderson and SOPHiA GENETICS Announce Strategic Collaboration to Accelerate AI-Driven Precision Oncology
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#OncoDaily #Oncology #Cancer #Health #Medicine #MedTwitter #MedEd #MedOnc #MedNews #MDAnderson #SOPHiAGENETICS
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#OncoDaily #Oncology #Cancer #Health #Medicine #MedTwitter #MedEd #MedOnc #MedNews #MDAnderson #SOPHiAGENETICS
MD Anderson and SOPHiA GENETICS Announce Strategic Collaboration to Accelerate AI-Driven Precision Oncology - OncoDaily
MD Anderson and SOPHiA GENETICS Announce Strategic Collaboration to Accelerate AI-Driven Precision Oncology / cancer, Donna Hansel, J. Bryan, MD Anderson, MD
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January 12, 2026 at 1:05 AM
MD Anderson and SOPHiA GENETICS Announce Strategic Collaboration to Accelerate AI-Driven Precision Oncology
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#OncoDaily #Oncology #Cancer #Health #Medicine #MedTwitter #MedEd #MedOnc #MedNews #MDAnderson #SOPHiAGENETICS
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You can’t import another country’s vaccine policy without first importing their actual healthcare system.
Our vaccine recommendations fill structural gaps in our healthcare system, which is widely regarded as fragmented, inaccessible to many, and riven with inequalities.
Our vaccine recommendations fill structural gaps in our healthcare system, which is widely regarded as fragmented, inaccessible to many, and riven with inequalities.
January 6, 2026 at 6:31 PM
You can’t import another country’s vaccine policy without first importing their actual healthcare system.
Our vaccine recommendations fill structural gaps in our healthcare system, which is widely regarded as fragmented, inaccessible to many, and riven with inequalities.
Our vaccine recommendations fill structural gaps in our healthcare system, which is widely regarded as fragmented, inaccessible to many, and riven with inequalities.
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Many doctors rely on an automated system that flags when a patient is due for a vaccine based on the CDC recommendations. The system does not flag vaccines that fall into the shared decision-making category meaning a child may miss a life-saving vaccine.
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How the CDC's vaccine guidance changes could affect your next pediatrician visit
The CDC on Monday dramatically reduced the number of vaccines it recommends for all children. Here’s what parents should know.
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January 7, 2026 at 3:55 AM
Many doctors rely on an automated system that flags when a patient is due for a vaccine based on the CDC recommendations. The system does not flag vaccines that fall into the shared decision-making category meaning a child may miss a life-saving vaccine.
www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-...
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RFK Jr.’s Next Move Is What Anti-Vaxxers Have Been Waiting For - The Atlantic apple.news/AOXesItUBQ7u...
RFK Jr.’s Next Move Is What Anti-Vaxxers Have Been Waiting For — The Atlantic
Nothing seems to be stoppingthe health secretaryfrom driving America over a vaccine cliff.
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January 7, 2026 at 6:46 AM
RFK Jr.’s Next Move Is What Anti-Vaxxers Have Been Waiting For - The Atlantic apple.news/AOXesItUBQ7u...
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Tennessee--consistently in the top 10 states for domestic violence homicides--created the first US registry to track repeat DV offenders. Savanna's Law: named for Savanna Puckett, killed by her ex-bf, who suffocated her dog & had a history of DV & stalking. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Tennessee actually just did something amazing for women | Arwa Mahdawi
The state has created the first registry in the US to track repeat domestic violence offenders
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January 3, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Tennessee--consistently in the top 10 states for domestic violence homicides--created the first US registry to track repeat DV offenders. Savanna's Law: named for Savanna Puckett, killed by her ex-bf, who suffocated her dog & had a history of DV & stalking. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Blood Test Identifies Colon Cancer in Adults Ages 20-35 With 98.5% Accuracy
Study: An Exosome-Based Liquid Biopsy for the Detection of Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer: The ENCODER Multicenter Study buff.ly/xi4fYNY
#medsky #GIsky 🛟🧪
Study: An Exosome-Based Liquid Biopsy for the Detection of Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer: The ENCODER Multicenter Study buff.ly/xi4fYNY
#medsky #GIsky 🛟🧪
December 30, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Blood Test Identifies Colon Cancer in Adults Ages 20-35 With 98.5% Accuracy
Study: An Exosome-Based Liquid Biopsy for the Detection of Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer: The ENCODER Multicenter Study buff.ly/xi4fYNY
#medsky #GIsky 🛟🧪
Study: An Exosome-Based Liquid Biopsy for the Detection of Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer: The ENCODER Multicenter Study buff.ly/xi4fYNY
#medsky #GIsky 🛟🧪
Science for the win👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻🎉🎉
Just a single infusion of lab-grown pancreatic cells let patients' bodies make all the insulin they needed, scientists reported this year. A year after treatment, 10 out of 12 participants no longer needed supplemental insulin. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/type-1-diabetes-cell-therapy-insulin
A new diabetes treatment could free people from insulin injections
In a small cell therapy trial, 10 out of 12 people with type 1 diabetes no longer needed supplemental insulin, even a year after treatment.
www.sciencenews.org
December 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Science for the win👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻🎉🎉
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Cooking a holday dinner? Save your tissues. This cutting technique slashes tears when chopping onions. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/knife-tricks-stop-onion-cutting-crying
These simple knife tricks stop onion tears instantly
With a high-speed camera and a tiny guillotine, scientists showed that chopping onions slowly and with sharper knives cuts down on tears.
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December 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Cooking a holday dinner? Save your tissues. This cutting technique slashes tears when chopping onions. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/knife-tricks-stop-onion-cutting-crying
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Scientists reverse Alzheimer’s in mice and restore memory. For more than 100 years, Alzheimer’s disease has been treated as a one-way decline—but new research is aiming for a cure.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
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Scientists reverse Alzheimer’s in mice and restore memory
Alzheimer’s has long been considered irreversible, but new research challenges that assumption. Scientists discovered that severe drops in the brain’s energy supply help drive the disease—and restorin...
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December 25, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Scientists reverse Alzheimer’s in mice and restore memory. For more than 100 years, Alzheimer’s disease has been treated as a one-way decline—but new research is aiming for a cure.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
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MD Anderson researchers have identified Rb1 deficiency as a key therapeutic vulnerability for some aggressive breast cancers, including triple-negative and estrogen receptor–positive tumors.
How this finding could shape treatment strategies: spr.ly/63328CZpQu #OncSky #EndCancer
How this finding could shape treatment strategies: spr.ly/63328CZpQu #OncSky #EndCancer
Researchers identify Rb1 as a predictive biomarker for a new therapeutic strategy in some breast cancers
A new study published today in Science Translational Medicine by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center details a therapeutic vulnerability in patients with an aggressive subtype of triple-negative breast cancer.
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December 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM
MD Anderson researchers have identified Rb1 deficiency as a key therapeutic vulnerability for some aggressive breast cancers, including triple-negative and estrogen receptor–positive tumors.
How this finding could shape treatment strategies: spr.ly/63328CZpQu #OncSky #EndCancer
How this finding could shape treatment strategies: spr.ly/63328CZpQu #OncSky #EndCancer
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Now online in Cancer Discovery @aacrjournals.bsky.social: Residual Breast Cancer Cells Co-opt SOX5-driven Endochondral Ossification to Maintain #Dormancy - by @amulyasreekumar.bsky.social, Lewis Chodosh, and colleagues doi.org/10.1158/2159... @pennmedicine.bsky.social @penncancer.bsky.social
December 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Now online in Cancer Discovery @aacrjournals.bsky.social: Residual Breast Cancer Cells Co-opt SOX5-driven Endochondral Ossification to Maintain #Dormancy - by @amulyasreekumar.bsky.social, Lewis Chodosh, and colleagues doi.org/10.1158/2159... @pennmedicine.bsky.social @penncancer.bsky.social
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Release Day! GLASS WALLS is now available in more accessible formats: paperback and audiobook. Learn how to identify workplace gender bias and how to stop it.
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December 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Release Day! GLASS WALLS is now available in more accessible formats: paperback and audiobook. Learn how to identify workplace gender bias and how to stop it.
Order here: amy-diehl.com/book
Order here: amy-diehl.com/book
Great job by all of my trainees and team at #SABCS2025!!
December 12, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Great job by all of my trainees and team at #SABCS2025!!
Honored to moderate the outstanding local therapy session! Three trials now coalesce around 8Gy x 3 to a small preop focus as an immune engaging dose in breast cancer. Exciting space to watch! Interesting radiation analyses from Insema too. #radoncsky #cansky #sabcs2025
Wendy Woodward and François-Clément Bidard moderated today's General Session at #SABCS25. The clinical trials featured in the session included TBCRC-053, Alliance A011104/ACRIN 6694, and BOOG 2013-08.
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December 12, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Honored to moderate the outstanding local therapy session! Three trials now coalesce around 8Gy x 3 to a small preop focus as an immune engaging dose in breast cancer. Exciting space to watch! Interesting radiation analyses from Insema too. #radoncsky #cansky #sabcs2025
IBC meeting opportunity @sabcs.bsky.social Wednesday 8:30 am- Room 303B - clinical teams, advocates interested in community IBC care please come engage in a discussion on improving consistent care everywhere! #thinkibc #cansky
December 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM
IBC meeting opportunity @sabcs.bsky.social Wednesday 8:30 am- Room 303B - clinical teams, advocates interested in community IBC care please come engage in a discussion on improving consistent care everywhere! #thinkibc #cansky
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Trans and non-binary individuals will no longer be listed in cancer registries--even as they use tobacco products at higher rates and are screened at lower rates.
#Medsky #LGBTQ #Oncosky #cancer #science #publichealth #epidemiology
#Medsky #LGBTQ #Oncosky #cancer #science #publichealth #epidemiology
U.S. Cancer Registries to Classify Only 'Males' or 'Females' Due to Trump Policies
Change will make it harder to understand cancer diagnoses and trends in transgender people
www.medpagetoday.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Trans and non-binary individuals will no longer be listed in cancer registries--even as they use tobacco products at higher rates and are screened at lower rates.
#Medsky #LGBTQ #Oncosky #cancer #science #publichealth #epidemiology
#Medsky #LGBTQ #Oncosky #cancer #science #publichealth #epidemiology
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Here we go. Its ALL #NIHGrant applications. Dec 8 is the new deadline. And a one page prelim data update will be accepted for all May Council submissions. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-26-012: Updated Guidance on Reopening of NIH Extramural Activities Following the October 1, 2025 - Lapse in Appropriations
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Updated Guidance on Reopening of NIH Extramural Activities Following the October 1, 2025 - Lapse in Appropriations NOT-...
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November 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Here we go. Its ALL #NIHGrant applications. Dec 8 is the new deadline. And a one page prelim data update will be accepted for all May Council submissions. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
I actually think some incremental research is crucial to effective execution. A research big bang doesn’t achieve a massive impact for patients w/o many,many incremental advances to understand the scope, limitations and nuances. Sweeping generalizations are not overly useful in research impact.
The NIH director told attendees the NIH doesn't do enough innovative research.
“What puts lives at risk is doing research that’s incremental,” Bhattacharya said. “All it does is advance the careers of the researchers that do it. It results in publications that don’t get used and aren’t replicable.”
“What puts lives at risk is doing research that’s incremental,” Bhattacharya said. “All it does is advance the careers of the researchers that do it. It results in publications that don’t get used and aren’t replicable.”
November 22, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I actually think some incremental research is crucial to effective execution. A research big bang doesn’t achieve a massive impact for patients w/o many,many incremental advances to understand the scope, limitations and nuances. Sweeping generalizations are not overly useful in research impact.
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“If your doctor first treats the symptoms as an infection and they don’t improve within a week, ask for more tests, such as imaging or a biopsy, to find the cause. If redness or swelling continues, especially if you’re not breastfeeding, ask for a follow-up visit right away.”
Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) can cause redness, swelling or warmth instead of a lump you can feel. Because of that, diagnosis sometimes happens later than it should. Here's what to look for. https://www.franciscanhealth.org/community/blog/inflammatory-breast-cancer-might-not-have-a-lump
November 18, 2025 at 10:12 AM
“If your doctor first treats the symptoms as an infection and they don’t improve within a week, ask for more tests, such as imaging or a biopsy, to find the cause. If redness or swelling continues, especially if you’re not breastfeeding, ask for a follow-up visit right away.”