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Fumiko Ladd Chino, MD FASCO
@fumikochino.bsky.social
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#RadOnc. Reformed Artist. Cancer Widow. I study #FinancialToxicity #Access #Equity MD Anderson Cancer Center 📲me COI http://bit.ly/3OBu0Cn 🐦🪶🕊️ #medSky #oncSky migration
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Today's thrift store find (maneki neko) #weekendsInHouston
A gold lucky cat on a counter with lots of plants and a bitter melon in the background
December 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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#ThreeGoodThings:
1️⃣ 4/4 #radonc in my family donated this year to #HCWvsHunger for our #oncTwitter team
2️⃣ my 🍎order arrived just in time for our last day
3️⃣ honored to run #DiagnoseAndTreats with Drs @kemimdrad.bsky.social @tmprowell.bsky.social @rovingatuscap.bsky.social
@01sth02.bsky.social 🙏
A woman in a purple HCWvsHunger shirt at her work desk
December 3, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Excited to log my @feedingamerica.org donation for #HCWvsHunger #SNAPMatch! When funding dried up last month, many stepped forward & reached deep. I appreciate my privilege & capacity to donate extra when the need is greatest. I paired that w my 8th #DiagnoseAndTreats donation today! 🍎
Working Together to End Hunger Feeding America is a nationwide network of 200 food banks and 60,000 food pantries and programs, that provide food and services to people facing hunger. For every dollar you give, the Feeding America network of food banks helps provide at least 10 meals. Find your local food bank to get involved or donate within your community. Want to get involved with your local food bank? SEARCH NOW DIRECTLY TO 98% Feeding America invests 98% of all cash and non-cash donations directly into programs and services that help millions of people facing hunger.
December 2, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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#ThreeGoodThings:
1️⃣ cold/rainy day means I break out the cozy socks 🧦
2️⃣ my phone is full of screen grabs from #oncSky #medSky friends' food bank #HCWvsHunger donations I've logged for #DiagnoseAndTreats
3️⃣ we're hoping to break $4M total this year. Donate thru Tuesday!

🍎 @hcwvshunger.bsky.social
A women in a yellow apple HCWvsHunger shirt giving a thumbs up #HCWvsHUNGER Healthcare Workers vs Hunger The 2025 competition is underway! A friendly annual competition to relieve food insecurity by donating to organizations fighting hunger that YOU choose
December 2, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Couldn't resist a 7th #HCWvsHunger donation to CARE who are ❎7️⃣ for today only.

"Wherever hunger threatens lives, CARE is there."

📣We have a grassroots fundraising competition to feed hungry people. Please join us. Our onc team is #DiagnoseAndTreats

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Cyber Monday only 7X match! On Cyber Monday, your gift is matched 7X to fight hunger and more. This holiday season, 1 in 4 children under age five are suffering permanent damage from not having enough to eat. Wherever hunger threatens lives, CARE is there. Don't wait until tomorrow to give - Your gift has the greatest impact when you donate today. #HCWvsHUNGER Healthcare Workers vs Hunger The 2025 competition is underway! A friendly annual competition to relieve food insecurity by donating to organizations fighting hunger that YOU choose
December 1, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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🚨Dear #Radonc @astro-org.bsky.social friends:

Would love your help raising money to fight hunger this holiday season. Feed the Children has a ❎8️⃣match, every $ helps feed hungry kids!

Please donate what you can & share. Our #HCWvsHunger cancer fighting team is #DiagnoseAndTreats 🍎
FEEDH CHiLDREN. Your Gift Multiplies 8x to Change Lives Each dollar of your tax-deductible gift provides $8 worth of food and life essentials to children and families struggling with hunger, thanks to the support of our generous partners. #HCWvsHUNGER Healthcare Workers vs Hunger The 2025 competition is underway! A friendly annual competition to relieve food insecurity by donating to organizations fighting hunger that YOU choose
December 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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🚨Dear @mdanderson.bsky.social friends:

Would love your help raising money to fight hunger this holiday season. Houston Food Bank has a ❎3️⃣ match, every $ helps feed 9️⃣ people.

Our community is in need. Please share. Our #HCWvsHunger cancer fighting team is #DiagnoseAndTreats 🍎
Triple Your Year-End Gift! Offer Ends at Midnight, December 31! For the rest of 2025, your gift goes 3X further thanks to a special $100,000 matching offer from Chevron. Triple your impact today to help families facing hunger in the new year. Every $l you donate triples to help provide 9 meals. #HCWvsHUNGER Healthcare Workers vs Hunger The 2025 competition is underway! A friendly annual competition to relieve food insecurity by donating to organizations fighting hunger that YOU choose
December 1, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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✅ International orgs
✅ National org
✅ Cancer specific org
✅ Local org

Made my 6th #HCWvsHunger donation to Houston Food Bank today with x3️⃣ match. (I'm a monthly donor but always give extra to meet holiday needs.)

🍎 Join us to fight food insecurity TODAY. #DiagnoseAndTreats
houston food bank Triple Your Year-End Gift! Offer Ends at Midnight, December 31! For the rest of 2025, your gift goes 3X further thanks to a special $100,000 matching offer from Chevron. Triple your impact today to help families facing hunger in the new year. Every $1 you donate triples to help provide 9 meals.
December 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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🍎 @mcuban.bsky.social we're both "trying to f-up healthcare" but my side hustle is feeding hungry people.

Every Thanksgiving we grassroots fundraise 💰 via #HCWvsHunger by donating to ANY food charity (ex: CARE or FEED the Children) & logging on HCWvsHunger.org.

We've raised >$3M. Want to join us?
DA. SHOSHANA UNGERLEIDER BEFORE WE GO A FODCAST NYTION ORIGINAL Mark Cuban and Dr. Fumiko Chino Try to F-Up Healthcare Before We Go E Today • 42 min • •• Today's episode features two people who are shaking up the U.S. healthcare system in very different but deeply humane ways. Dr. Fumiko Chino knows firsthand how devastating medical debt can be. After losing her husband to cancer and being left with overwhelming bills, she went to medical school to become a radiation oncologist and made it her mission to make care more affordable. Mark Cuban, best known as one of the "sharks" on Shark Tank, is tackling the 1. Donate to an organization of your choice fighting hunger between Nov 27 and Dec 2 2. Choose which #HCWvsHunger team you would like your donation allocated to 3. Click Record a donation below and complete the form
December 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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❤️🍎 Made my 5th #HCWvsHunger 2025 donation to @americares.bsky.social. They provide humanitarian aid, medicine, & emergency funding to communities affected by crisis, war & disaster from Gaza to Ukraine. They have x8️⃣ match today and x5️⃣ thru Tuesday.
#DiagnoseAndTreats (👯Dr @laurengroner.bsky.social)
Americares Make an 8X-Matched Giving Tuesday Gift For a limited time, your gift will go EIGHT TIMES AS FAR toward supporting our lifesaving work as we respond to complex emergencies in Ukraine, Israel and Gaza, Afghanistan - and anywhere people are in health crises.
December 1, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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I have to fly down the Rio Grand Valley to document this #HCWvsHunger donation. ✈️🍎
Two people sitting on a bench in an open field in the RGV
November 29, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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My 4th #HCWvsHunger donation is to support @nokidhungry.org (at the urging of our incredible junior captain for #DiagnoseAndTreats @kemimdrad.bsky.social)

Your 💸 stretches x3️⃣ further due to generous matching dollars.

🍎 The time is now to help feed hungry kids, the need has never been greater.
NO KID HUNGRY® Triple Your Donation for Giving Tuesday Every child deserves the right to a full plate. But 1 in 5 kids is facing hunger every day — and that's unacceptable. We're looking for 3,000 supporters by the end of Giving Tuesday to help fill more plates and brighten futures. Give now and your donation will be TRIPLED by the Brighter Futures Fund! 26 DAYS LEFT No Kid Hungry kemimdradx for nokidhungry $1,601.38 raised of $2,500 Donations from you and 10 others Operation: NO KID HUNGRY
November 29, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Every year since 2020 my retired #radonc mom donates to #HCWvsHunger by supporting her church's food ministry. Almost invariably, she sends me a photo of her check too late for me to actually log.

BUT NOT THIS YEAR. Her donation will count ✅❤️🍎 #DiagnoseAndTreats

@tmprowell.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Living for the #HCWvsHunger fundraising competition. Healthcare workers (and friends/family) work together to fight food insecurity over the holidays.

This year is time for onc team #DiagnoseAndTreats to reclaim the crystal apple. 🍎❤️

✅Donate to the charity of YOUR choice
✅log it @ hcwvshunger.org
A crystal apple for HCWvsHunger 2023
November 29, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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#ThreeGoodThings:
1️⃣ amazing time with my parents and 2 of my sisters in RGV playing games
2️⃣ ... and going through "The Book of Questions"
3️⃣ #HCWvsHunger 🍎 has raised >$80k in just over 24 hrs to fight food insecurity! Donate thru Tuesday for team #DiagnoseAndTreats 🙌
hcwvshunger.org/how-to-donate/
Three women smiling on a sidewalk A friendly annual competition to relieve food insecurity by donating to organizations fighting hunger that YOU choose In 2025, generous contributors have raised: $82,379
November 29, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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I couldn't resist the x 8️⃣ multiplier for donations to @feedthechildren. "Feed the Children is committed to ending childhood hunger. We believe that no child should go to bed hungry."

3rd #HCWvsHunger donation logged today for the onc team #DiagnoseAndTreats
🍎❤️🙌 @hcwvshunger.bsky.social
FEEDE CHiLDREN. Your Gift Multiplies 8x to Change Lives Each dollar of your tax-deductible gift provides $8 worth of food and life essentials to children and families struggling with hunger, thanks to the support ot our generous partners.
November 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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My next #HCWvsHunger donation is to Family Reach. They support families facing cancer who have young children in the home. With assistance to meet basic needs, they can focus on what REALLY matters: cancer treatment & recovery. Team #DiagnoseAndTreats fights cancer AND hunger

🍎 hcwvshunger.org
Cancer affects more than just your health. Join us in helping families afford their basic needs this holiday season. By providing financial support for groceries, gas, or rent, we're not only relieving stress for people facing cancer, we're improving health outcomes nationwide. Help patients this holiday season
November 28, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Good morning 🌅

I reject Black Friday Capitalism Vibes & instead plan to spend the day with family while working to raise money for food insecurity.

❤️Donate to ANY org fighting hunger
🍎Log it for our team #DiagnoseAndTreats
✅Feel good about the world

hcwvshunger.org/how-to-donate/
A woman in a HCWvsHunger shirt
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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My first #HCWvsHunger donation is logged for team #DiagnoseAndTreats!! I donated to CARE, an org that works to end world hunger. 🌍🍎

Donate today, every dollar is multiplied x5️⃣. @hcwvshunger.bsky.social
care® Image: © Sarah Easter/CARE Gifts Matched 5X: Help CARE Fight Hunger Every 13 seconds, a child dies of malnutrition. Violence and war are making matters worse, pushing families to the brink of starvation. Your gift helps deliver emergency food and lifesaving assistance to families in crisis:
November 28, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Happy Thanksgiving! 🍽 🦃 🍁

We are full of vegan potatoes, stuffing, turkey, and green bean casserole. Gonna have to wait a bit for vegan pumpkin 🥧.

Doing some last min #HCWvsHunger planning. 🍎 it's a generosity competition... and everyone is invited!
Three adult children and one mom at the dinner table. A dinner plate chocked full of a vegan thanksgiving meal.
November 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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#DiagnoseAndTreats planning on bringing the fire 🔥 🔥🔥🔥 and reclaiming the #HCWvsHunger crystal apple. We won't make the same mistake twice (never, NEVER sleep on #KidVengers).

@tmprowell.bsky.social @kemimdrad.bsky.social @rovingatuscap.bsky.social @hcwvshunger.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Inspirational work in RGV. Shout out to the Pharr Church of Christ for filling 4 grocery carts full of 🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃 for their food ministry. This is the goodness that mom's #HCWvsHunger donation helps fund.
The great thing about @hcwvshunger.bsky.social is that YOU decide where to donate.
Five people in a Walmart with four grocery carts loaded full of turkeys
November 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Spotted in the airport on the way to the RGV for Thanksgiving, sporting a #HCWvsHunger shirt & tote bag.

Our annual food fundraising competition starts 6pm ET! Donate to the food charity of YOUR choice & log the it for the onc team #DiagnoseAndTreats

🍎 hcwvshunger.org/how-to-donate/
A women in an airport lounge with an apple shirt and a suitcase.
November 27, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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An ornament made for my mom in 1988. It has a letter to Dr Irene Gordon inside. The hand drawn stamp is my fav. ❤️💌📬
A hand made mailbox with the number 1988 on it and a tiny fake piece of mail addressed to Dr Irene Gordon. There is a fake stamp. The name is the patient is in the upper left corner and covered by my finger.
November 27, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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My account is about to become the ALL #HCWvsHunger ALL the TIME account (for the next 5 days).
🍎❤️🍎❤️🍎❤️🍎❤️🍎❤️

✅ Join us on team #DiagnoseAndTreats. We are pathologists, radiologists, RadOnc, and MedOnc who fight cancer in our day jobs and fight hunger in our spare time! HCWvsHunger.org
Diagnose and TREATS logo with a candy cane
November 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM