Pratik Samant
@samantp.bsky.social
He/Him | NHS Radiotherapy Physicist | I occasionally post cancer/physics facts | Views my own | 🇨🇦 in 🇬🇧
https://www.oncology.ox.ac.uk/team/pratik-samant
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Congratulations to Daniel McGowan on receiving the NHS South East Healthcare Science Award for Educational Leadership🏆👨🏫
This award is in recognition of Dan's NHS education work & for developing the MSc in Medical Physics w/ Radiobiology programme
@medsci.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk @ouhospitals.bsky.social
This award is in recognition of Dan's NHS education work & for developing the MSc in Medical Physics w/ Radiobiology programme
@medsci.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk @ouhospitals.bsky.social
March 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Congratulations to Daniel McGowan on receiving the NHS South East Healthcare Science Award for Educational Leadership🏆👨🏫
This award is in recognition of Dan's NHS education work & for developing the MSc in Medical Physics w/ Radiobiology programme
@medsci.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk @ouhospitals.bsky.social
This award is in recognition of Dan's NHS education work & for developing the MSc in Medical Physics w/ Radiobiology programme
@medsci.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk @ouhospitals.bsky.social
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The administration is a perfect storm of dumb people who enjoy inflicting pain and are addicted to psychotic cruelty and quadrupling down. It ends in total ruin if you don't impeach him.
April 7, 2025 at 12:10 AM
The administration is a perfect storm of dumb people who enjoy inflicting pain and are addicted to psychotic cruelty and quadrupling down. It ends in total ruin if you don't impeach him.
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first of all, some housekeeping. you may be seeing mentions of "RN" thinking it's referring to RedNote, a tiktok competitor. this is incorrect—RN stands for ReNner, as in the Jeremy Renner app
January 13, 2025 at 10:06 PM
first of all, some housekeeping. you may be seeing mentions of "RN" thinking it's referring to RedNote, a tiktok competitor. this is incorrect—RN stands for ReNner, as in the Jeremy Renner app
🧪Cancer fact of the day:
January 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
🧪Cancer fact of the day:
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Mitch loves doing pieces like this knowing that the press will cast him as a responsible elder statesman instead of an asshole in a hotdog suit and honestly he's right to do it if only to further press the point home that the press is stupid
Mitch McConnell: ‘We’re in a very, very dangerous world right now’
The Republican Senator on his plans to spend the last two years of his term fighting back against an increasingly isolationist GOP
www.ft.com
December 11, 2024 at 2:53 PM
Mitch loves doing pieces like this knowing that the press will cast him as a responsible elder statesman instead of an asshole in a hotdog suit and honestly he's right to do it if only to further press the point home that the press is stupid
🧪Cancer fact of the day: Astronauts are at higher risk for cancer because of increased exposure to cosmic radiation in space. NASA sets the acceptable level of cancer risk from space radiation as a 3% fatal cancer risk at the upper 95% confidence interval. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Carcinogenesis induced by space radiation: A systematic review
The carcinogenic risk from space radiation has always been a health risk issue of great concern during space exploration. In recent years, a large number of cellular and animal experiments have demons...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
December 11, 2024 at 2:57 PM
🧪Cancer fact of the day: Astronauts are at higher risk for cancer because of increased exposure to cosmic radiation in space. NASA sets the acceptable level of cancer risk from space radiation as a 3% fatal cancer risk at the upper 95% confidence interval. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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"Their struggles and their deprivation are written on their skeletons." 🏺
If you'd like to read an archaeology article that will rip your heart out and radicalise you, read this. Skip to the discussion/conclusions if graphs aren't your thing:
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
If you'd like to read an archaeology article that will rip your heart out and radicalise you, read this. Skip to the discussion/conclusions if graphs aren't your thing:
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
The expendables: Bioarchaeological evidence for pauper apprentices in 19th century England and the health consequences of child labour
Child labour is the most common form of child abuse in the world today, with almost half of child workers employed in hazardous industries. The large-scale employment of children during the rapid indu...
journals.plos.org
December 10, 2024 at 4:33 PM
"Their struggles and their deprivation are written on their skeletons." 🏺
If you'd like to read an archaeology article that will rip your heart out and radicalise you, read this. Skip to the discussion/conclusions if graphs aren't your thing:
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
If you'd like to read an archaeology article that will rip your heart out and radicalise you, read this. Skip to the discussion/conclusions if graphs aren't your thing:
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
🧪Cancer fact of the day: A single organism, Helicobacter pylori, is responsible for 90% of gastric cancers! H pylori has infected about 2/3 of the world's population, but is usually asymptomatic.
wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/yello...
wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/yello...
Helicobacter pylori | CDC Yellow Book 2024
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Information about how to order the U.S. government publication about traveling titled "Health Information for International Travel" (also called the "Yellow Book")....
wwwnc.cdc.gov
December 10, 2024 at 12:57 PM
🧪Cancer fact of the day: A single organism, Helicobacter pylori, is responsible for 90% of gastric cancers! H pylori has infected about 2/3 of the world's population, but is usually asymptomatic.
wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/yello...
wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/yello...
🧪Cancer fact of the day: Drinking alcohol combined with smoking increases the risk of head and neck cancers by much more than either habit alone. The synergistic effect to increase cancer risk is more than multiplicative! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19190158/
Interaction between tobacco and alcohol use and the risk of head and neck cancer: pooled analysis in the International Head and Neck Cancer Epidemiology Consortium - PubMed
Our results confirm that the joint effect between tobacco and alcohol use is greater than multiplicative on head and neck cancer risk. However, a substantial proportion of head and neck cancers cannot...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
December 9, 2024 at 10:39 AM
🧪Cancer fact of the day: Drinking alcohol combined with smoking increases the risk of head and neck cancers by much more than either habit alone. The synergistic effect to increase cancer risk is more than multiplicative! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19190158/
🧪Cancer fact of the day: In the UK, roughly half of people will get cancer in their lifetime. www.nhs.uk/conditions/c...
December 6, 2024 at 10:05 AM
🧪Cancer fact of the day: In the UK, roughly half of people will get cancer in their lifetime. www.nhs.uk/conditions/c...
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just repeating the phrase "hawk tuah girl meme coin" over and over until my brain is as smooth as a polished stone
December 5, 2024 at 5:53 PM
just repeating the phrase "hawk tuah girl meme coin" over and over until my brain is as smooth as a polished stone
🧪Cancer fact of the day: Cancer is at least as old as the dinosaurs, and likely even older.
www.history.com/news/oldest-...
www.history.com/news/oldest-...
How Old Is Cancer? At Least as Old as the Start of the Dinosaurs, Fossil Shows | HISTORY
A malignant tumor found in a 240 million‑year‑old turtle bone shows that cancer has been plaguing living things since the Triassic Period.
www.history.com
December 5, 2024 at 1:40 PM
🧪Cancer fact of the day: Cancer is at least as old as the dinosaurs, and likely even older.
www.history.com/news/oldest-...
www.history.com/news/oldest-...
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South Korea rn is what it looks like when people see democracy as a fragile thing that needs to be defended by all means necessary, and not as their inevitable birthright as citizens of an exceptional nation
December 3, 2024 at 4:24 PM
South Korea rn is what it looks like when people see democracy as a fragile thing that needs to be defended by all means necessary, and not as their inevitable birthright as citizens of an exceptional nation
Cancer fact of the day 🧪: early radiotherapy largely relied on one element, radium. The metal was therefore extremely valuable and needed to be kept in vaults. One gram of radium used to cost ~£1.6 million in today's currency, which is more than its weight in diamonds!
December 4, 2024 at 9:43 AM
Cancer fact of the day 🧪: early radiotherapy largely relied on one element, radium. The metal was therefore extremely valuable and needed to be kept in vaults. One gram of radium used to cost ~£1.6 million in today's currency, which is more than its weight in diamonds!
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How have literal billionaires convinced so many Americans that the people picking their strawberries are the villains
December 3, 2024 at 8:06 PM
How have literal billionaires convinced so many Americans that the people picking their strawberries are the villains
🧪Cancer fact of the day: Peto's paradox has led scientists to explore if humans can suppress cancers as effectively as larger mammals do. Elephant cells are more vigilant for cancer than ours, and take potential mutational threats more seriously.
news.cancerresearchuk.org/2023/08/12/c...
news.cancerresearchuk.org/2023/08/12/c...
December 3, 2024 at 11:03 AM
🧪Cancer fact of the day: Peto's paradox has led scientists to explore if humans can suppress cancers as effectively as larger mammals do. Elephant cells are more vigilant for cancer than ours, and take potential mutational threats more seriously.
news.cancerresearchuk.org/2023/08/12/c...
news.cancerresearchuk.org/2023/08/12/c...
🧪Cancer fact of the day: Radiotherapy does one better than this, by modulating delivered dose in 3D. Cancer cells are already more vulnerable to radiation, and on top of that we give them more radiation dose than healthy tissue. This minimizes side effects as best as possible.
🧪Cancer fact of the day: Cancer cell DNA is unstable, and so quite fragile. Especially as compared to healthy cells.
X-ray radiation causes DNA damage to all cells it hits. Cancerous cells fare worse than healthy cells when this happens, which is why radiotherapy is an effective cancer treatment.
X-ray radiation causes DNA damage to all cells it hits. Cancerous cells fare worse than healthy cells when this happens, which is why radiotherapy is an effective cancer treatment.
December 2, 2024 at 11:16 AM
🧪Cancer fact of the day: Radiotherapy does one better than this, by modulating delivered dose in 3D. Cancer cells are already more vulnerable to radiation, and on top of that we give them more radiation dose than healthy tissue. This minimizes side effects as best as possible.
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while "open borders UK" is in the news: here's someone caught by the minimum income requirement increase from £18k to £29k, and now has to crowdfund 17 grand for the savings route so their spouse isn't kicked out of the country
We need help.
The UK government plans to deport my wife for one reason and one reason only.
We are too poor.
Please see thread below and help us if you can, even if that just means spreading the word.
gofund.me/3e54a149
The UK government plans to deport my wife for one reason and one reason only.
We are too poor.
Please see thread below and help us if you can, even if that just means spreading the word.
gofund.me/3e54a149
Donate to Help me keep my wife from deportation, organized by Amber S
Hello, my name is Amber. I am a UK citizen cohabitating with my wife from the USA. For t… Amber S needs your support for Help me keep my wife from deportation
gofund.me
November 29, 2024 at 8:06 AM
while "open borders UK" is in the news: here's someone caught by the minimum income requirement increase from £18k to £29k, and now has to crowdfund 17 grand for the savings route so their spouse isn't kicked out of the country
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For the first time in a while overdose deaths are declining - seven straight months of declines. The cause is complicated but appears to be the culmination of a number of different Biden admin policy initiatives coming to fruition. And yet it meant absolutely nothing politically.
What’s the TLDR?
November 28, 2024 at 12:35 AM
For the first time in a while overdose deaths are declining - seven straight months of declines. The cause is complicated but appears to be the culmination of a number of different Biden admin policy initiatives coming to fruition. And yet it meant absolutely nothing politically.
🧪Cancer fact of the day: Radiation dose delivery at this level of precision doesn't happen all by itself!
Engineers and physicists perform regular quality checks and corrections on every radiotherapy machine. This is one of the primary duties of radiotherapy physicists in the hospital.
Engineers and physicists perform regular quality checks and corrections on every radiotherapy machine. This is one of the primary duties of radiotherapy physicists in the hospital.
🧪Cancer fact of the day: modern radiotherapy is less like a blunt instrument, and more like a precision strike. For example, stereotactic radiosurgery can treat tumours as small as 0.7-1cm in diameter (about as large as a grain of rice), while having the dose reduce by 20 fold just 1.5cm away!
November 28, 2024 at 3:14 PM
🧪Cancer fact of the day: Radiation dose delivery at this level of precision doesn't happen all by itself!
Engineers and physicists perform regular quality checks and corrections on every radiotherapy machine. This is one of the primary duties of radiotherapy physicists in the hospital.
Engineers and physicists perform regular quality checks and corrections on every radiotherapy machine. This is one of the primary duties of radiotherapy physicists in the hospital.
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This is why I got into science in the first place
November 19, 2024 at 11:37 PM
This is why I got into science in the first place
🧪Cancer fact of the day: modern radiotherapy is less like a blunt instrument, and more like a precision strike. For example, stereotactic radiosurgery can treat tumours as small as 0.7-1cm in diameter (about as large as a grain of rice), while having the dose reduce by 20 fold just 1.5cm away!
November 27, 2024 at 9:26 AM
🧪Cancer fact of the day: modern radiotherapy is less like a blunt instrument, and more like a precision strike. For example, stereotactic radiosurgery can treat tumours as small as 0.7-1cm in diameter (about as large as a grain of rice), while having the dose reduce by 20 fold just 1.5cm away!
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Incredible how the narrative changes as soon as the election is over
November 26, 2024 at 1:32 PM
Incredible how the narrative changes as soon as the election is over
Ah yes, while we're asking the Tories how best to run the economy, let's also ask the captain of the Titanic how best to get a ship across the Atlantic, Neville Chamberlain how best to avoid a European war, and Napoleon on when the best time of year is to conquer Russia.
Keir Starmer’s jobs plan won’t work because Labour are ducking tough welfare decisions, Tories claim – UK politics live
Keir Starmer’s jobs plan won’t work because Labour are ducking tough welfare decisions, Tories claim – UK politics live
PM set to unveil what government calls 'biggest employment reforms in generation’ as Tories say he is not making tough calls on sickness and benefits
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2024 at 9:44 AM
Ah yes, while we're asking the Tories how best to run the economy, let's also ask the captain of the Titanic how best to get a ship across the Atlantic, Neville Chamberlain how best to avoid a European war, and Napoleon on when the best time of year is to conquer Russia.
🧪Cancer fact of the day: Cancer cell DNA is unstable, and so quite fragile. Especially as compared to healthy cells.
X-ray radiation causes DNA damage to all cells it hits. Cancerous cells fare worse than healthy cells when this happens, which is why radiotherapy is an effective cancer treatment.
X-ray radiation causes DNA damage to all cells it hits. Cancerous cells fare worse than healthy cells when this happens, which is why radiotherapy is an effective cancer treatment.
November 26, 2024 at 9:33 AM
🧪Cancer fact of the day: Cancer cell DNA is unstable, and so quite fragile. Especially as compared to healthy cells.
X-ray radiation causes DNA damage to all cells it hits. Cancerous cells fare worse than healthy cells when this happens, which is why radiotherapy is an effective cancer treatment.
X-ray radiation causes DNA damage to all cells it hits. Cancerous cells fare worse than healthy cells when this happens, which is why radiotherapy is an effective cancer treatment.