Rafael Santana-Davila
@valdesan.bsky.social
Thoracic, Head and Neck oncologist #medsky #oncsky
Fred Hutch Cancer Center. @fredhutch.bsky.social
University of Washington.
Fred Hutch Cancer Center. @fredhutch.bsky.social
University of Washington.
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Starting a list of oncology related peopl. Please tell me more to add. Or any similar listd go.bsky.app/GKXp9Fy @n8pennell.bsky.social
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15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.
October 31, 2025 at 10:04 PM
15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.
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This is why I think Democrats need to let the GOP pass their budget. Let the voters see and feel what GOP government means. See if Ron is right about this not being a “gut-wrenching problem.”
People need to understand what GOP rule is: Pain and poverty.
People need to understand what GOP rule is: Pain and poverty.
Ron Johnson: "I don't think this is going to be any kind of gut-wrenching problem if these enhanced subsidies just go away. We'll probably have the weather the lies told by the Democrats. Democrats say all sorts of things that are untrue."
October 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
This is why I think Democrats need to let the GOP pass their budget. Let the voters see and feel what GOP government means. See if Ron is right about this not being a “gut-wrenching problem.”
People need to understand what GOP rule is: Pain and poverty.
People need to understand what GOP rule is: Pain and poverty.
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My husband was detained by ICE today
Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away
I have had zero contact or updates since
#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov
Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away
I have had zero contact or updates since
#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov
October 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
My husband was detained by ICE today
Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away
I have had zero contact or updates since
#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov
Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away
I have had zero contact or updates since
#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov
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I work with Veterans. If I told them that they "killed people and broke things for a living" they would (rightfully) tell me to go to hell.
Those that have had to kill someone in the line of duty most often view it with sadness, regret, and one of the worst experiences of their lives.
Those that have had to kill someone in the line of duty most often view it with sadness, regret, and one of the worst experiences of their lives.
Hegseth: "A few months ago I was at the White House when President Trump announced his liberation day for America's trade policy. It was a landmark day. Well, today is another liberation day. The liberation of America's warriors ... you kill people and break things for a living."
September 30, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I work with Veterans. If I told them that they "killed people and broke things for a living" they would (rightfully) tell me to go to hell.
Those that have had to kill someone in the line of duty most often view it with sadness, regret, and one of the worst experiences of their lives.
Those that have had to kill someone in the line of duty most often view it with sadness, regret, and one of the worst experiences of their lives.
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Portland is not "war ravaged." This is delusional and dangerous.
Sending troops into American cities doesn't make our communities safer — it just stokes fear and stirs up chaos.
Trump is plunging further into authoritarianism every single day.
Sending troops into American cities doesn't make our communities safer — it just stokes fear and stirs up chaos.
Trump is plunging further into authoritarianism every single day.
September 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Portland is not "war ravaged." This is delusional and dangerous.
Sending troops into American cities doesn't make our communities safer — it just stokes fear and stirs up chaos.
Trump is plunging further into authoritarianism every single day.
Sending troops into American cities doesn't make our communities safer — it just stokes fear and stirs up chaos.
Trump is plunging further into authoritarianism every single day.
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There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.
September 21, 2025 at 12:56 AM
There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.
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My guess is at least 500 #doctors at my #hospital are on H1B visas including at least a few dozen #hospitalists, and if we lose even a handful to other countries our house of cards #healthcare system will fall apart, let alone all 500+
Hmmmm. So, 25% of the US doctors are foreign-trained, and most of them at some point of their career require H1B visa. I don't know how many doctors with active licenses require H1B visa currently, but this is really stupid 👇🏻
Trump to impose new $100,000 fee for H-1B visas in sweeping overhaul: Report - The Economic Times
Donald Trump plans significant H-1B visa changes. A $100,000 fee may be imposed on applications. The administration believes the visa program hurts American workers. Entry under the H-1B system will b...
m.economictimes.com
September 19, 2025 at 11:11 PM
My guess is at least 500 #doctors at my #hospital are on H1B visas including at least a few dozen #hospitalists, and if we lose even a handful to other countries our house of cards #healthcare system will fall apart, let alone all 500+
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I recommend everyone watches this
September 14, 2025 at 4:20 AM
I recommend everyone watches this
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9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 11:23 AM
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
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Congrats #DavidOReilly
on the PLAN trial: plasma-first liquid biopsy (LB) v tissue (TB) for NSCLC in🇮🇪 @EJCancer
- 138pts
- 3wk⬇️ time to genomic result,LB>TB
- 90% concordance
- LB half the cost (micro-cost analysis)
@oncoalert.bsky.social @cancertrialsie.bsky.social
www.ejcancer.com/article/S095...
on the PLAN trial: plasma-first liquid biopsy (LB) v tissue (TB) for NSCLC in🇮🇪 @EJCancer
- 138pts
- 3wk⬇️ time to genomic result,LB>TB
- 90% concordance
- LB half the cost (micro-cost analysis)
@oncoalert.bsky.social @cancertrialsie.bsky.social
www.ejcancer.com/article/S095...
Clinical benefit and cost of plasma-first next-generation sequencing in patients with newly diagnosed advanced non-small cell lung cancer in Ireland: The PLAN study
We report a pilot clinical trial investigating the feasibility of liquid biopsy genotyping
(LBG) at the time of radiological suspicion of advanced NSCLC, incorporating a micro-cost
model (MCM). (PLAsm...
www.ejcancer.com
June 19, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Congrats #DavidOReilly
on the PLAN trial: plasma-first liquid biopsy (LB) v tissue (TB) for NSCLC in🇮🇪 @EJCancer
- 138pts
- 3wk⬇️ time to genomic result,LB>TB
- 90% concordance
- LB half the cost (micro-cost analysis)
@oncoalert.bsky.social @cancertrialsie.bsky.social
www.ejcancer.com/article/S095...
on the PLAN trial: plasma-first liquid biopsy (LB) v tissue (TB) for NSCLC in🇮🇪 @EJCancer
- 138pts
- 3wk⬇️ time to genomic result,LB>TB
- 90% concordance
- LB half the cost (micro-cost analysis)
@oncoalert.bsky.social @cancertrialsie.bsky.social
www.ejcancer.com/article/S095...
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Beamion LUNG-1 trial: Safe, effective, oral therapies are needed for patients with HER2-mutant non–small-cell lung cancer. Research findings on the oral, irreversible, HER2-selective tyrosine kinase inhibitor zongertinib are summarized in a new Quick Take video. nej.md/3HETKwj
#MedSky
#MedSky
June 20, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Beamion LUNG-1 trial: Safe, effective, oral therapies are needed for patients with HER2-mutant non–small-cell lung cancer. Research findings on the oral, irreversible, HER2-selective tyrosine kinase inhibitor zongertinib are summarized in a new Quick Take video. nej.md/3HETKwj
#MedSky
#MedSky
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Tonight, I'll go home and sleep in my bed. I have a lawyer, I'll get due process.
But Edgardo, whose arm was ripped from mine by ICE agents, has none of those things.
That's why I'll keep coming back to court, week after week, to make sure that people's rights are protected.
But Edgardo, whose arm was ripped from mine by ICE agents, has none of those things.
That's why I'll keep coming back to court, week after week, to make sure that people's rights are protected.
Brad Lander: "I'll keep coming back to court, week after week"
YouTube video by Brad Lander for NYC
youtu.be
June 18, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Tonight, I'll go home and sleep in my bed. I have a lawyer, I'll get due process.
But Edgardo, whose arm was ripped from mine by ICE agents, has none of those things.
That's why I'll keep coming back to court, week after week, to make sure that people's rights are protected.
But Edgardo, whose arm was ripped from mine by ICE agents, has none of those things.
That's why I'll keep coming back to court, week after week, to make sure that people's rights are protected.
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America has intersecting problems:
-right wing hate
-guns
-media fragmentation
-ignorance
-right wing hate
-guns
-media fragmentation
-ignorance
Walz announces that Rep. Melissa Hortman is dead as a result of a "politically motivated assassination"
June 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
America has intersecting problems:
-right wing hate
-guns
-media fragmentation
-ignorance
-right wing hate
-guns
-media fragmentation
-ignorance
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A colleague, a friend and a brilliant scientist. The US lost a trusted vaccine expert to an anti-science purge at #ACIP
Americans should be outraged.
Americans should be outraged.
Helen Chu is one of the ousted #ACIP members. She spoke to me today about her grave concerns for future vaccination policy and vaccine access in the United States. www.statnews.com/2025/06/10/c...
Ousted CDC vaccine adviser says RFK Jr.'s message is clear: ‘Scientific expertise is no longer of use’
Terminated CDC vaccine adviser Helen Chu spoke with STAT about her fears for the future of vaccine policy
www.statnews.com
June 11, 2025 at 4:08 AM
A colleague, a friend and a brilliant scientist. The US lost a trusted vaccine expert to an anti-science purge at #ACIP
Americans should be outraged.
Americans should be outraged.
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@benlevylungdoc.bsky.social from Johns Hopkins reports results of chemo+datoDXD with biomarker data #ASCO25
June 1, 2025 at 1:25 PM
@benlevylungdoc.bsky.social from Johns Hopkins reports results of chemo+datoDXD with biomarker data #ASCO25
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Published in JCO today ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/...
Zipalertinib in Patients With <i>EGFR</i> Exon 20 Insertion-Positive NSCLC Previously Treated With Platinum-Based Chemotherapy With or Without Amivantamab
PURPOSETo evaluate the safety and efficacy of zipalertinib, an irreversible epidermal growth
factor receptor (EGFR) inhibitor, in pretreated patients with non-small cell lung
cancer (NSCLC) harboring ...
ascopubs.org
June 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Published in JCO today ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/...
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Herbert Loong presenting data on Sevabertinib in ERBB2/HER2 mutated NSCLC #ASCO25
Cohort with no prior treatment and another with no prior HER2 targeted therapy.
Cohort with no prior treatment and another with no prior HER2 targeted therapy.
June 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Herbert Loong presenting data on Sevabertinib in ERBB2/HER2 mutated NSCLC #ASCO25
Cohort with no prior treatment and another with no prior HER2 targeted therapy.
Cohort with no prior treatment and another with no prior HER2 targeted therapy.
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Data on iza-bren (BL-B01D1) an EGFR/HER3 ADC in patients with Small Cell and NSCLC (a variety of driver alterations). Fair response rate in all types of lung cancer (conf RR 48% in small cell) #ASCO25
May 30, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Data on iza-bren (BL-B01D1) an EGFR/HER3 ADC in patients with Small Cell and NSCLC (a variety of driver alterations). Fair response rate in all types of lung cancer (conf RR 48% in small cell) #ASCO25
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Useful paper by my @mskdeptofmed.bsky.social colleagues looking at outcomes after radiation for "oligoprogressive" disease (<5 sites of progression) in patients with EGFRmut NSCLC. Show patients able to stay on osimertinib for median of 10 months longer ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/...
May 19, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Useful paper by my @mskdeptofmed.bsky.social colleagues looking at outcomes after radiation for "oligoprogressive" disease (<5 sites of progression) in patients with EGFRmut NSCLC. Show patients able to stay on osimertinib for median of 10 months longer ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/...
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The rank corruption of this administration is absolutely gobsmacking.
Accepting a $400 million private jet from Qatar? What are the national security concerns? What is Qatar getting in return?
Trump is a crook, and this is the most corrupt administration in American history.
Accepting a $400 million private jet from Qatar? What are the national security concerns? What is Qatar getting in return?
Trump is a crook, and this is the most corrupt administration in American history.
Trump Is Poised to Accept a Luxury 747 From Qatar for Use as Air Force One
www.nytimes.com
May 12, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The rank corruption of this administration is absolutely gobsmacking.
Accepting a $400 million private jet from Qatar? What are the national security concerns? What is Qatar getting in return?
Trump is a crook, and this is the most corrupt administration in American history.
Accepting a $400 million private jet from Qatar? What are the national security concerns? What is Qatar getting in return?
Trump is a crook, and this is the most corrupt administration in American history.
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Not such a big problem in clinical trials, but major challenge in retrospective research as well as lab-based research.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
P hacking — Five ways it could happen to you
Some data practices can lead to statistically dubious findings. Here’s how to avoid them.
www.nature.com
May 12, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Not such a big problem in clinical trials, but major challenge in retrospective research as well as lab-based research.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world
May 2, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world