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MHC
@mcgregorhc.bsky.social
Clinical Scientist 🇨🇦
BMX yesterday, and let me tell you, the relief of getting two ticking time bombs off of me is absolute bliss.

#cansky #oncsky #cancersky
January 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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It’s best to avoid platitudes when a loved one is facing cancer (or any horrible situation, for that matter).

The kindest thing you can do is listen and try to sit with them in the pain, fear and discomfort.

#cansky #graphicmedicine
January 12, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Chemotherapy is the most badass I have ever been and the least badass I have ever felt.

#cansky #oncosky #oncsky
December 11, 2024 at 4:08 PM
1hr to go and my LAST CHEMO is done! Goodbye TNBC see you never!

#cansky #oncsky
December 13, 2024 at 8:27 PM
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"The significant increase in distant-stage [metastatic or Stage 4 breast cancer] disease at diagnosis among all U.S. women and across all age groups is an alarming new finding."
pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/...
— of 48% of US population over past 20 years
—increase notably in age groups 20-39 years
December 10, 2024 at 3:44 PM
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#OncoSky #CanSky Listen up!! For those who used to enjoy Tumor Board Tuesday #TBT. We have been speaking to the wonderful Dr. P @mpishvaian.bsky.social and we will be starting some Tumor Board Tuesday “Sky Chats” over here soon! Stay tuned! #TBT is a wonderful learning/CME resource!!! #bcsm
December 5, 2024 at 2:14 PM
In the space of like a week, this place has already passed twitter in terms of usefulness. I've found like 3 or 4 papers, all on point for my current projects, just from mutuals posting. Love to see it.
November 19, 2024 at 4:51 PM
Sometimes I take my four year old to the library when I need to remember what magic feels like. Seeing her excitement when we walk through the doors is a top 5 parenting feeling.
Since moving here from the hellscape that is X, my feed is somehow now full of posts about how awesome libraries are and I am HERE FOR IT! Support your local libraries, they provide a warm space safe for everyone and the free gift of knowledge!
November 16, 2024 at 5:29 PM
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Encouraging data for a neoantigen vaccine vs triple-negative breast cancer, revving up the immune system with favorable outcomes compared with historic controls (Phase 1 trial)
genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
November 14, 2024 at 2:39 PM
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This needs to be watched by every Canadian.
WOW. This is a must-watch. Here’s CBC Power & Politics host @davidwcochrane.bsky.social bluntly confronting dumbfounded Con pundit Gary Keller today with a very chilling scenario for Canada under Poilievre.

Canada, this is an emergency and it’s only one facet of a Poilievre govt bringing calamity.
November 16, 2024 at 3:18 AM
I have chosen to place so much hope in future cancer vaccines and therapeutics because I have to. I have BRCA1, TNBC and a daughter. I'm a clinical scientist.

I have to believe that our field will figure it out, because the alternative is to give up. And it humans simply don't give up.
What an achievement vaccines are. What a monument to our love for each other it is to stare straight into the face of something as horrific and unstoppable as smallpox or measles or polio or cervical cancer and say “You know what, it doesn’t have to be like this.”

HUMANS!
November 16, 2024 at 5:42 AM
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The CDC and WHO report a 20% increase in measles cases last year, driven by decreases in vaccination.

This equated to 107,500 DEATHS, mostly in young children.

This, in a PREVENTABLE disease.

Can only imagine what that number will be if we get rid of all mandates.
November 15, 2024 at 6:47 PM
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November 16, 2024 at 2:09 AM
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#Oncology
NEW Review explores the marked increase in #cancer in young people over the last few decades. Includes multiple hypotheses about why we’re seeing this & methods to test them. #OncoSky #MedSky #bcsm #crcsm #ayacsm #melsm #kcsm #pancsm #thyroidcancer

www.cell.com/action/showP...
November 12, 2024 at 12:40 PM
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Anthracyline in #bcsm

My favorite quote: "Owing to the relentless math of proportional risk reduction ... improvements achieved through these non-anthra treatment enhancements mean that any residual clinical benefits from anthra are becoming progressively narrower"

ascopubs.org/doi/full/10....
Anthracyclines in Early Breast Cancer: The Long Goodbye | Journal of Clinical Oncology
ascopubs.org
November 14, 2024 at 7:38 PM
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Hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy for recurrent ovarian cancer (CHIPOR): a randomised, open-label, phase 3 trial Adding HIPEC to surgery after responding to chemo at first epithelial OC recurrence significantly improved OS www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #gyncsm
Hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy for recurrent ovarian cancer (CHIPOR): a randomised, open-label, phase 3 trial
Adding HIPEC to cytoreductive surgery after response to platinum-based chemotherapy at first epithelial ovarian cancer recurrence significantly improved overall survival. When treating patients with l...
www.thelancet.com
November 15, 2024 at 5:56 PM
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November 15, 2024 at 5:01 PM