Leonidas Platanias, MD
@leonidasplatan1.bsky.social
Director of the Lurie Cancer Center @luriecancer.bsky.social of Northwestern University. Medical oncologist and cancer researcher. Views & opinions here are my own.
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The @luriecancer.bsky.social (LCC) went thru the competing renewal of NCI designation. For a 2nd time we got "exceptional" ranking. The NCI site visit team gave us a "perfect exceptional" (equivalent to 10). LCC is one of few in the nation and the only one in IL to ever achieve exceptional status.
“Τι νέοι που φτάσαμεν εδώ, στο έρμο νησί, στο χείλος
του κόσμου, δώθε απ’ τ’ όνειρο και κείθε απ’ τη γη!”
Kostas Karyotakis (1896 - 1928)
του κόσμου, δώθε απ’ τ’ όνειρο και κείθε απ’ τη γη!”
Kostas Karyotakis (1896 - 1928)
June 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
“Τι νέοι που φτάσαμεν εδώ, στο έρμο νησί, στο χείλος
του κόσμου, δώθε απ’ τ’ όνειρο και κείθε απ’ τη γη!”
Kostas Karyotakis (1896 - 1928)
του κόσμου, δώθε απ’ τ’ όνειρο και κείθε απ’ τη γη!”
Kostas Karyotakis (1896 - 1928)
With our amazing community advisory board of @luriecancer.bsky.social today!
June 16, 2025 at 7:38 PM
With our amazing community advisory board of @luriecancer.bsky.social today!
Μέρα του Απρίλη
Πράσινο λάμπος,
γελούσε ο κάμπος
με το τριφύλλι.
Ως την εφίλει
το πρωινό θάμπος,
η φύση σάμπως
γλυκά να ομίλει.
Εκελαδούσαν
πουλιά, πετώντας όλο πιο πάνω.
Τ’ άνθη ευωδούσαν.
Κι είπε απορώντας: «Πώς να πεθάνω;»
Διάκος poem
Kostas Karyotakis (1896 -1928)
Πράσινο λάμπος,
γελούσε ο κάμπος
με το τριφύλλι.
Ως την εφίλει
το πρωινό θάμπος,
η φύση σάμπως
γλυκά να ομίλει.
Εκελαδούσαν
πουλιά, πετώντας όλο πιο πάνω.
Τ’ άνθη ευωδούσαν.
Κι είπε απορώντας: «Πώς να πεθάνω;»
Διάκος poem
Kostas Karyotakis (1896 -1928)
June 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Μέρα του Απρίλη
Πράσινο λάμπος,
γελούσε ο κάμπος
με το τριφύλλι.
Ως την εφίλει
το πρωινό θάμπος,
η φύση σάμπως
γλυκά να ομίλει.
Εκελαδούσαν
πουλιά, πετώντας όλο πιο πάνω.
Τ’ άνθη ευωδούσαν.
Κι είπε απορώντας: «Πώς να πεθάνω;»
Διάκος poem
Kostas Karyotakis (1896 -1928)
Πράσινο λάμπος,
γελούσε ο κάμπος
με το τριφύλλι.
Ως την εφίλει
το πρωινό θάμπος,
η φύση σάμπως
γλυκά να ομίλει.
Εκελαδούσαν
πουλιά, πετώντας όλο πιο πάνω.
Τ’ άνθη ευωδούσαν.
Κι είπε απορώντας: «Πώς να πεθάνω;»
Διάκος poem
Kostas Karyotakis (1896 -1928)
Reposted by Leonidas Platanias, MD
Happy National Cancer Survivors Day from Grant Park, site of the Lurie Cancer Center 32nd Annual Cancer Survivors’ Celebration Walk & 5K! #GoCats💜
Nice to finally meet you, @leonidasplatan1.bsky.social!
Nice to finally meet you, @leonidasplatan1.bsky.social!
June 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Happy National Cancer Survivors Day from Grant Park, site of the Lurie Cancer Center 32nd Annual Cancer Survivors’ Celebration Walk & 5K! #GoCats💜
Nice to finally meet you, @leonidasplatan1.bsky.social!
Nice to finally meet you, @leonidasplatan1.bsky.social!
The @luriecancer.bsky.social (LCC) went thru the competing renewal of NCI designation. For a 2nd time we got "exceptional" ranking. The NCI site visit team gave us a "perfect exceptional" (equivalent to 10). LCC is one of few in the nation and the only one in IL to ever achieve exceptional status.
May 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The @luriecancer.bsky.social (LCC) went thru the competing renewal of NCI designation. For a 2nd time we got "exceptional" ranking. The NCI site visit team gave us a "perfect exceptional" (equivalent to 10). LCC is one of few in the nation and the only one in IL to ever achieve exceptional status.
One of the worst possible premieres of a symphony, was the premiere of Symphony #1 of Rachmaninoff in 1897.
It was conducted by Glazunov (a famous composer himself later) who was drunk at the time and was disastrous. Rachmaninoff suffered severe depression after that.
It was conducted by Glazunov (a famous composer himself later) who was drunk at the time and was disastrous. Rachmaninoff suffered severe depression after that.
May 26, 2025 at 11:20 PM
One of the worst possible premieres of a symphony, was the premiere of Symphony #1 of Rachmaninoff in 1897.
It was conducted by Glazunov (a famous composer himself later) who was drunk at the time and was disastrous. Rachmaninoff suffered severe depression after that.
It was conducted by Glazunov (a famous composer himself later) who was drunk at the time and was disastrous. Rachmaninoff suffered severe depression after that.
All the big breakthroughs in cancer have started with NIH and NCI funded research.
Every single medication or curative approach used in cancer patients is the direct or indirect result of NIH/NCI funded research.
Every single medication or curative approach used in cancer patients is the direct or indirect result of NIH/NCI funded research.
May 21, 2025 at 12:57 PM
All the big breakthroughs in cancer have started with NIH and NCI funded research.
Every single medication or curative approach used in cancer patients is the direct or indirect result of NIH/NCI funded research.
Every single medication or curative approach used in cancer patients is the direct or indirect result of NIH/NCI funded research.
Johanna Senfter (1879 - 1961) was a remarkable composer with amazing violin and piano works.
Her only recorded Symphony 4, has very strong Brucknerian influences and is absolutely stunning. But she has written 9 in total. Hard to understand why her work is being ignored.
Her only recorded Symphony 4, has very strong Brucknerian influences and is absolutely stunning. But she has written 9 in total. Hard to understand why her work is being ignored.
May 4, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Johanna Senfter (1879 - 1961) was a remarkable composer with amazing violin and piano works.
Her only recorded Symphony 4, has very strong Brucknerian influences and is absolutely stunning. But she has written 9 in total. Hard to understand why her work is being ignored.
Her only recorded Symphony 4, has very strong Brucknerian influences and is absolutely stunning. But she has written 9 in total. Hard to understand why her work is being ignored.
The reason so many diseases are cured has been the investment of the USA to medical research via NIH support.
Without strong support for the NIH, important medical breakthroughs would have never happened. And drugs that cure or control diseases would have never existed.
Without strong support for the NIH, important medical breakthroughs would have never happened. And drugs that cure or control diseases would have never existed.
May 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
The reason so many diseases are cured has been the investment of the USA to medical research via NIH support.
Without strong support for the NIH, important medical breakthroughs would have never happened. And drugs that cure or control diseases would have never existed.
Without strong support for the NIH, important medical breakthroughs would have never happened. And drugs that cure or control diseases would have never existed.
“No, science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere”.
Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
May 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
“No, science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere”.
Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
"A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "universe," a part limited in time and space."
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
May 2, 2025 at 1:17 PM
"A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "universe," a part limited in time and space."
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
“The task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees."
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
May 1, 2025 at 1:07 PM
“The task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees."
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
Cancer mortality rates have been dropping because of NIH and NCI funded research to Universities. Without it there would be no new cancer treatments that save lives.
April 22, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Cancer mortality rates have been dropping because of NIH and NCI funded research to Universities. Without it there would be no new cancer treatments that save lives.
Reposted by Leonidas Platanias, MD
“Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.”
Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895)
Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895)
April 20, 2025 at 2:48 PM
“Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.”
Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895)
Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895)
“Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.”
Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895)
Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895)
April 20, 2025 at 2:48 PM
“Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.”
Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895)
Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895)
The impact of science and medicine in saving billions of lives can not be measured in dollars. Human life is priceless.
April 19, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The impact of science and medicine in saving billions of lives can not be measured in dollars. Human life is priceless.
Since its discovery in 1882, over 1 billion people have died from tuberculosis, including great composers, like Chopin, Purcell, Lili Boulanger, Stravinsky.
One can only imagine how the world would be today if medical research had not found TB drugs.
Science is priceless.
One can only imagine how the world would be today if medical research had not found TB drugs.
Science is priceless.
April 18, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Since its discovery in 1882, over 1 billion people have died from tuberculosis, including great composers, like Chopin, Purcell, Lili Boulanger, Stravinsky.
One can only imagine how the world would be today if medical research had not found TB drugs.
Science is priceless.
One can only imagine how the world would be today if medical research had not found TB drugs.
Science is priceless.
"History shows us the life of nations and can find nothing to relate except wars and insurrections; the years of peace appear here and there only as short pauses, as intervals between the acts".
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
April 17, 2025 at 11:25 PM
"History shows us the life of nations and can find nothing to relate except wars and insurrections; the years of peace appear here and there only as short pauses, as intervals between the acts".
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
“Everything I discovered was new and most of it was really valuable”.
Alice Hamilton (1869 - 1970)
Alice Hamilton (1869 - 1970)
April 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
“Everything I discovered was new and most of it was really valuable”.
Alice Hamilton (1869 - 1970)
Alice Hamilton (1869 - 1970)
Alfredo Casella is one of the greatest Italian composers of all time. And his classical music compositions are not Italian at all. Heavy Mahler and Strauss influence. And even a hint of Bruckner.
But very unique style. Incredible composer.
But very unique style. Incredible composer.
April 13, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Alfredo Casella is one of the greatest Italian composers of all time. And his classical music compositions are not Italian at all. Heavy Mahler and Strauss influence. And even a hint of Bruckner.
But very unique style. Incredible composer.
But very unique style. Incredible composer.
One of the saddest, but also most beautiful, compositions by an American composer is the Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber. It was written during the Great Depression in 1938, and reflects the feelings and sadness of that era.
A remarkable piece of classical music.
A remarkable piece of classical music.
April 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
One of the saddest, but also most beautiful, compositions by an American composer is the Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber. It was written during the Great Depression in 1938, and reflects the feelings and sadness of that era.
A remarkable piece of classical music.
A remarkable piece of classical music.
Reposted by Leonidas Platanias, MD
This needs to be amplified. The unfortunate increase in cancers in young individuals, especially for colorectal cancer, has created a public narrative that cancer rates are increasing
The data are clear. Cancer mortality rates have been decreasing. And this is, undoubtedly, because of cancer research that results in new treatments. Medical research saves lives.
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ACS Annual Report: Cancer Mortality Continues to Drop Despite Rising Incidence in Women; Rates of New Diagnoses Under 65 Higher in Women Than Men
ATLANTA, January 16, 2025 — The American Cancer Society (ACS) today released Cancer Statistics, 2025, the organization’s annual report on cancer facts and trends. The new findings show the...
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April 2, 2025 at 1:03 PM
This needs to be amplified. The unfortunate increase in cancers in young individuals, especially for colorectal cancer, has created a public narrative that cancer rates are increasing