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...
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.”
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Read how understanding and tracking recent changing trends for lobular breast cancer are important—not only to improve care for those affected by it, but also to advance NBCC’s overarching mission to end all breast cancer. https://nbcc.info/4qmyBbS
New Data Show Lobular Breast Cancer Cases Are on the Rise - National Breast Cancer Coalition
In the US, cases of invasive lobular breast cancer are rising faster than other breast cancers, a new American Cancer Society report finds.
www.stopbreastcancer.org
November 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Read how understanding and tracking recent changing trends for lobular breast cancer are important—not only to improve care for those affected by it, but also to advance NBCC’s overarching mission to end all breast cancer. https://nbcc.info/4qmyBbS
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Very cool post, thanks for finding our initial paper on this issue interesting. Turns out we had another one just out, where we extend the idea of critical ignoring and relate it to the detrimental consequences of information overload: doi.org/10.1016/j.co... 1/n
November 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Very cool post, thanks for finding our initial paper on this issue interesting. Turns out we had another one just out, where we extend the idea of critical ignoring and relate it to the detrimental consequences of information overload: doi.org/10.1016/j.co... 1/n
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Honored to be a presenter at IBC Community Connect Conference - it’s wonderful to be in the presence of so many brilliant, dedicated people. #IBCCC2025 Thank you @ibcradiation.bsky.social for bringing everyone together.
November 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Honored to be a presenter at IBC Community Connect Conference - it’s wonderful to be in the presence of so many brilliant, dedicated people. #IBCCC2025 Thank you @ibcradiation.bsky.social for bringing everyone together.
Such wonderful networking and brainstorming today at the IBC Connect and Community - we will create an email distribution to connect clinician and community teams, interested in projects and ideas to improve adherence to guidelines for IBC- Please DM if you would like to join the list! #cansky
November 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Such wonderful networking and brainstorming today at the IBC Connect and Community - we will create an email distribution to connect clinician and community teams, interested in projects and ideas to improve adherence to guidelines for IBC- Please DM if you would like to join the list! #cansky
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Base-pair resolution Micro Capture-C ultra to map chromatin contacts between individual motifs within cis-regulatory elements and reveal a unified model of biophysically mediated enhancer-promoter communication @cellcellpress.bsky.social
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November 6, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Base-pair resolution Micro Capture-C ultra to map chromatin contacts between individual motifs within cis-regulatory elements and reveal a unified model of biophysically mediated enhancer-promoter communication @cellcellpress.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Fun lab field trip today from @mdanderson.bsky.social to @utaustin.bsky.social with @debeblab.bsky.social to see collaborators from the Maynard and Rylander labs🙌🎉🩷 So great to meet in person and discuss science to impact IBC! #oncsky #cansky
November 5, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Fun lab field trip today from @mdanderson.bsky.social to @utaustin.bsky.social with @debeblab.bsky.social to see collaborators from the Maynard and Rylander labs🙌🎉🩷 So great to meet in person and discuss science to impact IBC! #oncsky #cansky
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For children and teens, heart and blood vessel complications of Covid overshadow the very rare and short-term risk of vaccinations, a new report from nearly 14 million kids
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November 5, 2025 at 12:48 AM
For children and teens, heart and blood vessel complications of Covid overshadow the very rare and short-term risk of vaccinations, a new report from nearly 14 million kids
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Reporter @virginiagewin.bsky.social interviewed 19 current and former US federal agency scientists about the science being dismantled at EPA, NOAA, NASA, CDC, NIH, & USGS.
They say it's making America unprepared for environmental and public health crises.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
They say it's making America unprepared for environmental and public health crises.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Dismantling of US federal agencies will ‘destroy science’
From NASA to the National Institutes of Health, federal agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and ...
www.nature.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Reporter @virginiagewin.bsky.social interviewed 19 current and former US federal agency scientists about the science being dismantled at EPA, NOAA, NASA, CDC, NIH, & USGS.
They say it's making America unprepared for environmental and public health crises.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
They say it's making America unprepared for environmental and public health crises.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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📊 A new #ESTROVBRO study analysed 3700+ papers on #radiotherapy innovations (2012–2022):
🔹Only 1% randomised controlled trials
🔹Mostly observational
🔹Endpoints varied widely
➡️ “One-size-fits-all” evidence doesn’t work, RT needs a tailored approach.
👉 bit.ly/4orbHPp
🔹Only 1% randomised controlled trials
🔹Mostly observational
🔹Endpoints varied widely
➡️ “One-size-fits-all” evidence doesn’t work, RT needs a tailored approach.
👉 bit.ly/4orbHPp
November 4, 2025 at 4:28 PM
📊 A new #ESTROVBRO study analysed 3700+ papers on #radiotherapy innovations (2012–2022):
🔹Only 1% randomised controlled trials
🔹Mostly observational
🔹Endpoints varied widely
➡️ “One-size-fits-all” evidence doesn’t work, RT needs a tailored approach.
👉 bit.ly/4orbHPp
🔹Only 1% randomised controlled trials
🔹Mostly observational
🔹Endpoints varied widely
➡️ “One-size-fits-all” evidence doesn’t work, RT needs a tailored approach.
👉 bit.ly/4orbHPp
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Thank you to the rad techs & radiation therapists who deliver safe, precise, and compassionate cancer care every day. 💙🩻
#NRTW #RadTechWeek #RadiationTherapy #RadiationOncology
#NRTW #RadTechWeek #RadiationTherapy #RadiationOncology
November 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Thank you to the rad techs & radiation therapists who deliver safe, precise, and compassionate cancer care every day. 💙🩻
#NRTW #RadTechWeek #RadiationTherapy #RadiationOncology
#NRTW #RadTechWeek #RadiationTherapy #RadiationOncology
🎶 Live music for a life-saving cause!
Join The Checkmates Oct 12 at 2p-6p, Dan Electro’s — support IBC Wranglers Boot Walk Team & IBC research at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
🎟️ Tickets: $45.50 👉 tinyurl.com/ys4an856 (tinyurl.com/ys4an856)
#BootWalk #IBCWranglers #EndCa
ncer #HoustonConcerts#EndCancer
Join The Checkmates Oct 12 at 2p-6p, Dan Electro’s — support IBC Wranglers Boot Walk Team & IBC research at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
🎟️ Tickets: $45.50 👉 tinyurl.com/ys4an856 (tinyurl.com/ys4an856)
#BootWalk #IBCWranglers #EndCa
ncer #HoustonConcerts#EndCancer
October 10, 2025 at 12:53 PM
🎶 Live music for a life-saving cause!
Join The Checkmates Oct 12 at 2p-6p, Dan Electro’s — support IBC Wranglers Boot Walk Team & IBC research at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
🎟️ Tickets: $45.50 👉 tinyurl.com/ys4an856 (tinyurl.com/ys4an856)
#BootWalk #IBCWranglers #EndCa
ncer #HoustonConcerts#EndCancer
Join The Checkmates Oct 12 at 2p-6p, Dan Electro’s — support IBC Wranglers Boot Walk Team & IBC research at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
🎟️ Tickets: $45.50 👉 tinyurl.com/ys4an856 (tinyurl.com/ys4an856)
#BootWalk #IBCWranglers #EndCa
ncer #HoustonConcerts#EndCancer
I am super excited to be presenting information about inflammatory breast cancer to the sister’s network breast. Cancer summit for black women today in Houston, Texas! IBC is more common in black women: outcome disparities can be erased w/ prompt diagnosis & guideline driven care!! #thinkibc #bcsm
October 4, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Dr. Wendy Woodward is not only passionate about patient care, but also physician wellbeing.
At #ASTRO25, she’s shares evidence-based strategies for wellness in radiation oncology. @ibcradiation.bsky.social #EndCancer
At #ASTRO25, she’s shares evidence-based strategies for wellness in radiation oncology. @ibcradiation.bsky.social #EndCancer
September 29, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Dr. Wendy Woodward is not only passionate about patient care, but also physician wellbeing.
At #ASTRO25, she’s shares evidence-based strategies for wellness in radiation oncology. @ibcradiation.bsky.social #EndCancer
At #ASTRO25, she’s shares evidence-based strategies for wellness in radiation oncology. @ibcradiation.bsky.social #EndCancer
Gorgeous weather and views in San Francisco for @astro-org.bsky.social #ASTRO25 Ready to Astro!!!
September 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Gorgeous weather and views in San Francisco for @astro-org.bsky.social #ASTRO25 Ready to Astro!!!
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This is a big advance, folks. We've never had a disease-modifying drug for this devastating inherited disease
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September 25, 2025 at 8:13 PM
This is a big advance, folks. We've never had a disease-modifying drug for this devastating inherited disease
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.economist.com/science-and-...
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Excited to share that I am officially recruiting a postdoc to study the neurobiology of addiction! Looking for someone who would be excited to lead current projects in the lab and develop new directions in related areas.
More info: bearlab.science/opportunities/
More info: bearlab.science/opportunities/
Opportunities
Interested in the neuroscience of addiction? We are recruiting at all levels!! Reach out to Dr. Baranger – dbaranger@mcw.edu Postdoctoral fellows/Senior Scientists: Please send an email conta…
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September 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Excited to share that I am officially recruiting a postdoc to study the neurobiology of addiction! Looking for someone who would be excited to lead current projects in the lab and develop new directions in related areas.
More info: bearlab.science/opportunities/
More info: bearlab.science/opportunities/
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🚨 ALERT: After the 2nd deadliest pediatric flu season in 20 years with 280 child deaths mostly unvaccinated, next year’s flu could be even worse without urgent action. Is the US ready for another pediatric flu crisis? Vaccines save lives
#MedSky
#FluSeason2025 #VaccinateKids #PublicHealth
#MedSky
#FluSeason2025 #VaccinateKids #PublicHealth
CDC reports highest number of pediatric influenza-associated deaths since 2009-10
Pediatric influenza-associated deaths for the 2024-25 season were second-highest recorded since becoming notifiable in 2004.
www.contemporarypediatrics.com
September 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
🚨 ALERT: After the 2nd deadliest pediatric flu season in 20 years with 280 child deaths mostly unvaccinated, next year’s flu could be even worse without urgent action. Is the US ready for another pediatric flu crisis? Vaccines save lives
#MedSky
#FluSeason2025 #VaccinateKids #PublicHealth
#MedSky
#FluSeason2025 #VaccinateKids #PublicHealth
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Truly an amazing breakthrough for one of the cruelest diseases that afflicts humanity.
Here’s hoping the results bear out and can be operationalized at scale.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Here’s hoping the results bear out and can be operationalized at scale.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.
www.bbc.com
September 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Truly an amazing breakthrough for one of the cruelest diseases that afflicts humanity.
Here’s hoping the results bear out and can be operationalized at scale.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Here’s hoping the results bear out and can be operationalized at scale.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Identification of lymphatic vessels in skull periosteum but not bone marrow reveals skull channel heterogeneity @jem.org @ccmb.usc.edu
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September 20, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Identification of lymphatic vessels in skull periosteum but not bone marrow reveals skull channel heterogeneity @jem.org @ccmb.usc.edu
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One of the premier U.S. graduate fellowships is mired in uncertainty as would-be applicants await overdue details about how to apply for the upcoming year’s awards. https://scim.ag/4nlRhqc
Delays, uncertainty plague NSF fellowship for graduate students
After an unusual award process this year, applicants for next year are waiting for overdue guidelines
scim.ag
September 20, 2025 at 2:53 PM
One of the premier U.S. graduate fellowships is mired in uncertainty as would-be applicants await overdue details about how to apply for the upcoming year’s awards. https://scim.ag/4nlRhqc
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This is a GREAT interview. Definitely worth a listen.
this is wild - i was aware of Mary-Claire King's absurdly important discoveries on BRCA / inherited breast cancer but I had no idea that her first PhD paper (King & Wilson 1975, Science, not bad lol) is the "99% of protein coding shared btwn chimps and humans" result
www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...
www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...
September 20, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This is a GREAT interview. Definitely worth a listen.
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Don't underestimate the effect of the arts—music, dance, visual, gardening, crafts, theater—for promoting health, a systematic review
@naturemedicine.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@naturemedicine.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The arts for disease prevention and health promotion: a systematic review - Nature Medicine
The arts, according to a systematic synthesis of data from 95 studies (across 26 countries), may support non-communicable disease prevention by providing opportunities for increased physical activity,...
www.nature.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Don't underestimate the effect of the arts—music, dance, visual, gardening, crafts, theater—for promoting health, a systematic review
@naturemedicine.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@naturemedicine.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A lot of people aren’t going to want to hear this but letting a tiny group of people hoard all the wealth - because of the delusion that you could somehow ever get into that group through hard work or merit - is actually the cause of most of the problems in this country
A program in Flint, MI, gave $1,500 to any/all pregnant people and $500/month for the first year of their infant’s life.
Among the benefits, those babies experienced lower rates of prematurity and low birth weight, which resulted in fewer NICU admissions, saving the city of Flint $6.2 million/year.
Among the benefits, those babies experienced lower rates of prematurity and low birth weight, which resulted in fewer NICU admissions, saving the city of Flint $6.2 million/year.
The US town that pays every pregnant woman $1,500: ‘We’re not OK with our babies being born into poverty’
Infants in Rx Kids in Flint, Michigan, saw lower rates of prematurity and other issues, saving millions in NICU visits
www.theguardian.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:42 AM
A lot of people aren’t going to want to hear this but letting a tiny group of people hoard all the wealth - because of the delusion that you could somehow ever get into that group through hard work or merit - is actually the cause of most of the problems in this country