Chandler S Cortina MD, MS
@chandlercortina.bsky.social
Breast Surgeon and Outcomes/Health Services Cancer Researcher at MCWSurgery and MCWCancerCenter.
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Transgender and gender-diverse patients with breast cancer receive less endocrine therapy and have lower 5-year overall survival compared to cisgender patients. ja.ma/4mbpqZ0
August 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Transgender and gender-diverse patients with breast cancer receive less endocrine therapy and have lower 5-year overall survival compared to cisgender patients. ja.ma/4mbpqZ0
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Join the SSO and become part of a global community of surgical oncology leaders.
Gain access to exclusive benefits that support your growth, strengthen your career, and keep you at the forefront of surgical oncology.
Learn more and become a member now: surgonc.org/about-sso/me...
Gain access to exclusive benefits that support your growth, strengthen your career, and keep you at the forefront of surgical oncology.
Learn more and become a member now: surgonc.org/about-sso/me...
July 30, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Join the SSO and become part of a global community of surgical oncology leaders.
Gain access to exclusive benefits that support your growth, strengthen your career, and keep you at the forefront of surgical oncology.
Learn more and become a member now: surgonc.org/about-sso/me...
Gain access to exclusive benefits that support your growth, strengthen your career, and keep you at the forefront of surgical oncology.
Learn more and become a member now: surgonc.org/about-sso/me...
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Applications for @conquercancer.bsky.social grants and awards are officially open! Funding is available for researchers at every career stage. Learn more and apply now!
www.asco.org/career-devel...
#ResearchFunding #OncologyResearch
www.asco.org/career-devel...
#ResearchFunding #OncologyResearch
July 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Applications for @conquercancer.bsky.social grants and awards are officially open! Funding is available for researchers at every career stage. Learn more and apply now!
www.asco.org/career-devel...
#ResearchFunding #OncologyResearch
www.asco.org/career-devel...
#ResearchFunding #OncologyResearch
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SCOTUS upheld that health plans must continue to cover preventive services, including cancer screenings, w/o patient cost-sharing. We’re proud to have joined 33 other patient & med groups advocating for this essential coverage brnw.ch/21wTKb7
June 27, 2025 at 9:13 PM
SCOTUS upheld that health plans must continue to cover preventive services, including cancer screenings, w/o patient cost-sharing. We’re proud to have joined 33 other patient & med groups advocating for this essential coverage brnw.ch/21wTKb7
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New on The Academic Surgeon: Finding My Place as a Medical Student in Academic Surgery
In the latest blog post, Reagan Collins shares candid lessons on mentorship, self-advocacy, and growing into an academic surgical career.
📖 Read now: www.aasurg.org/finding-my-p...
In the latest blog post, Reagan Collins shares candid lessons on mentorship, self-advocacy, and growing into an academic surgical career.
📖 Read now: www.aasurg.org/finding-my-p...
June 19, 2025 at 5:58 PM
New on The Academic Surgeon: Finding My Place as a Medical Student in Academic Surgery
In the latest blog post, Reagan Collins shares candid lessons on mentorship, self-advocacy, and growing into an academic surgical career.
📖 Read now: www.aasurg.org/finding-my-p...
In the latest blog post, Reagan Collins shares candid lessons on mentorship, self-advocacy, and growing into an academic surgical career.
📖 Read now: www.aasurg.org/finding-my-p...
Reposted by Chandler S Cortina MD, MS
📢BREAKING: Just left the courthouse for our NIH grant termination case
Judge ruled terminations are “VOID & ILLEGAL”
As a plaintiff, I felt a wave of relief & hope; he acknowledged the discrimination & harm
Closed by asking, ‘Have we fallen so low? Have we no shame?’
Judge ruled terminations are “VOID & ILLEGAL”
As a plaintiff, I felt a wave of relief & hope; he acknowledged the discrimination & harm
Closed by asking, ‘Have we fallen so low? Have we no shame?’
June 16, 2025 at 9:26 PM
📢BREAKING: Just left the courthouse for our NIH grant termination case
Judge ruled terminations are “VOID & ILLEGAL”
As a plaintiff, I felt a wave of relief & hope; he acknowledged the discrimination & harm
Closed by asking, ‘Have we fallen so low? Have we no shame?’
Judge ruled terminations are “VOID & ILLEGAL”
As a plaintiff, I felt a wave of relief & hope; he acknowledged the discrimination & harm
Closed by asking, ‘Have we fallen so low? Have we no shame?’
Reposted by Chandler S Cortina MD, MS
Reposted by Chandler S Cortina MD, MS
BREAKING: A federal judge reversed National Institutes of Health's terminations of hundreds of critical research grants that were canceled because of their alleged connection to disfavored topics, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and gender identity.
This is a major win for public health.
This is a major win for public health.
June 16, 2025 at 9:46 PM
BREAKING: A federal judge reversed National Institutes of Health's terminations of hundreds of critical research grants that were canceled because of their alleged connection to disfavored topics, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and gender identity.
This is a major win for public health.
This is a major win for public health.
Reposted by Chandler S Cortina MD, MS
My message to Trump’s NIH Director? No one in America wants us to do LESS cancer research.
No one is asking Trump to make it harder to cure Alzheimer's disease.
Yet Trump is cutting all of this NOW and demanding an $18 BILLION cut to NIH next year. Not on my watch.
No one is asking Trump to make it harder to cure Alzheimer's disease.
Yet Trump is cutting all of this NOW and demanding an $18 BILLION cut to NIH next year. Not on my watch.
June 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
My message to Trump’s NIH Director? No one in America wants us to do LESS cancer research.
No one is asking Trump to make it harder to cure Alzheimer's disease.
Yet Trump is cutting all of this NOW and demanding an $18 BILLION cut to NIH next year. Not on my watch.
No one is asking Trump to make it harder to cure Alzheimer's disease.
Yet Trump is cutting all of this NOW and demanding an $18 BILLION cut to NIH next year. Not on my watch.
Reposted by Chandler S Cortina MD, MS
Donald Trump is taking away lifesaving cancer and Alzheimer's research and putting cures further out of reach for our loved ones.
Why? So he can give big corporations a tax break.
This is literally the definition of putting profits over people.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Why? So he can give big corporations a tax break.
This is literally the definition of putting profits over people.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Here Are the Nearly 2,500 Medical Research Grants Canceled or Delayed by Trump
Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.
www.nytimes.com
June 5, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Donald Trump is taking away lifesaving cancer and Alzheimer's research and putting cures further out of reach for our loved ones.
Why? So he can give big corporations a tax break.
This is literally the definition of putting profits over people.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Why? So he can give big corporations a tax break.
This is literally the definition of putting profits over people.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
“In light of the President's statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately”
June 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
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The AAS and AAS Foundation are delighted to announce the 2025 Faculty Award Winners!
🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Joel J. Roslyn Faculty Research Award recipient, Jessica McMullin, MD, MS!
Learn more: www.aasurg.org/congratulati...
🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Joel J. Roslyn Faculty Research Award recipient, Jessica McMullin, MD, MS!
Learn more: www.aasurg.org/congratulati...
June 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The AAS and AAS Foundation are delighted to announce the 2025 Faculty Award Winners!
🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Joel J. Roslyn Faculty Research Award recipient, Jessica McMullin, MD, MS!
Learn more: www.aasurg.org/congratulati...
🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Joel J. Roslyn Faculty Research Award recipient, Jessica McMullin, MD, MS!
Learn more: www.aasurg.org/congratulati...
Large cohort of TGD patients with #BreastCancer in the @facs.org NCDB identified they had lower 5-year OS compared to matched cisgender patients indicating major opportunity to mitigate disparities for this population.
Read our article online in JAMA Onc at jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Read our article online in JAMA Onc at jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Breast Cancer Outcomes in Transgender and Gender-Diverse Patients in the National Cancer Database
This cohort study examines breast cancer outcomes in transgender and gender-diverse patients compared with cisgender patients, including overall survival and sociodemographic characteristics.
jamanetwork.com
May 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Large cohort of TGD patients with #BreastCancer in the @facs.org NCDB identified they had lower 5-year OS compared to matched cisgender patients indicating major opportunity to mitigate disparities for this population.
Read our article online in JAMA Onc at jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Read our article online in JAMA Onc at jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Reposted by Chandler S Cortina MD, MS
After receiving the ACS Clowes Award to fund her research, surgeon-scientist Dr. Tammy Kindel is helping uncover significant extended benefits after bariatric surgery.
Her project focuses on understanding how bariatric surgery improves heart function in patients with obesity-related heart failure.
Her project focuses on understanding how bariatric surgery improves heart function in patients with obesity-related heart failure.
Beyond Weight Loss, Heart Health Improves after Bariatric Surgery
Dr. Kindel describes how the Clowes Award helps surgeon-scientists secure protected time in order to pursue innovative research projects.
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May 15, 2025 at 6:14 PM
After receiving the ACS Clowes Award to fund her research, surgeon-scientist Dr. Tammy Kindel is helping uncover significant extended benefits after bariatric surgery.
Her project focuses on understanding how bariatric surgery improves heart function in patients with obesity-related heart failure.
Her project focuses on understanding how bariatric surgery improves heart function in patients with obesity-related heart failure.
Reposted by Chandler S Cortina MD, MS
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has terminated nearly 800 research projects at a breakneck pace, wiping out significant chunks of funding to entire scientific fields, finds a Nature analysis.
https://go.nature.com/4ielRyV
https://go.nature.com/4ielRyV
How Trump 2.0 is slashing NIH-backed research — in charts
Nature analyses which fields of science and US states are being hit hardest by grant terminations.
go.nature.com
April 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has terminated nearly 800 research projects at a breakneck pace, wiping out significant chunks of funding to entire scientific fields, finds a Nature analysis.
https://go.nature.com/4ielRyV
https://go.nature.com/4ielRyV
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This ⬇️
I just learned that the entire press team at the FDA was fired last week. The *entire* press team.
It's difficult to grasp how bizarre this is.
To wrap my brain around the idea, I made a list of things the FDA is responsible for, and that reporters now have no one at the agency to ask about... 🧪🛟
It's difficult to grasp how bizarre this is.
To wrap my brain around the idea, I made a list of things the FDA is responsible for, and that reporters now have no one at the agency to ask about... 🧪🛟
April 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
This ⬇️
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April Issue: Patients with DCIS Seen at a Specialized High-Risk Breast Clinic Run by Surgical Advanced Practice Providers Have High Rates of #PreventiveMedication Uptake
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April 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
April Issue: Patients with DCIS Seen at a Specialized High-Risk Breast Clinic Run by Surgical Advanced Practice Providers Have High Rates of #PreventiveMedication Uptake
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rdcu.be/egf8V
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BREAKING: We're suing the National Institutes of Health over their politically-motivated purge of research grants.
This is an unlawful attack on scientific progress that puts lives at risk.
This is an unlawful attack on scientific progress that puts lives at risk.
April 2, 2025 at 8:03 PM
BREAKING: We're suing the National Institutes of Health over their politically-motivated purge of research grants.
This is an unlawful attack on scientific progress that puts lives at risk.
This is an unlawful attack on scientific progress that puts lives at risk.
Reposted by Chandler S Cortina MD, MS
🚨🚨 Here we go! 🚨🚨
@protectdemocracy.org, @cspi.bsky.social, and @aclu.org have sued RFK and his cronies at HHS to halt illegal grant terminations.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/69835...
@protectdemocracy.org, @cspi.bsky.social, and @aclu.org have sued RFK and his cronies at HHS to halt illegal grant terminations.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/69835...
April 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
🚨🚨 Here we go! 🚨🚨
@protectdemocracy.org, @cspi.bsky.social, and @aclu.org have sued RFK and his cronies at HHS to halt illegal grant terminations.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/69835...
@protectdemocracy.org, @cspi.bsky.social, and @aclu.org have sued RFK and his cronies at HHS to halt illegal grant terminations.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/69835...
Happy to see efforts on sustainability and minimizing waste in the OR from
@socsurgonc.bsky.social
@socsurgonc.bsky.social
March 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Happy to see efforts on sustainability and minimizing waste in the OR from
@socsurgonc.bsky.social
@socsurgonc.bsky.social
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🚨HAPPENING NOW: I’m hosting a forum on Elon Musk and President Trump’s heartless efforts to stop the search for Alzheimer’s disease and cancer cures that could save lives.
Democrats are sounding the alarm and fighting back. Tune in now 📺 youtube.com/live/JofqSdW...
Democrats are sounding the alarm and fighting back. Tune in now 📺 youtube.com/live/JofqSdW...
Baldwin Leads Forum on Trump and Musk’s Cuts to Cancer and Alzheimer’s Disease Cures
YouTube video by Senator Tammy Baldwin
youtube.com
March 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
🚨HAPPENING NOW: I’m hosting a forum on Elon Musk and President Trump’s heartless efforts to stop the search for Alzheimer’s disease and cancer cures that could save lives.
Democrats are sounding the alarm and fighting back. Tune in now 📺 youtube.com/live/JofqSdW...
Democrats are sounding the alarm and fighting back. Tune in now 📺 youtube.com/live/JofqSdW...
Reposted by Chandler S Cortina MD, MS
Happy #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience! Today, we celebrate the incredible women shaping the future of surgical oncology through research, innovation, and leadership. SSO is proud to support and uplift women in science! #SSOCommunity
February 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Happy #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience! Today, we celebrate the incredible women shaping the future of surgical oncology through research, innovation, and leadership. SSO is proud to support and uplift women in science! #SSOCommunity
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Dr. Waks presents MARGOT: TMP vs. THP x 12 wks for HER-2+ #bcsm w/ CD16 FF or FV (94% of those screened)
2/3 node -
85% stage II
2/3 HR+
pCR 10% improved, not significant in overall pop or in HR+ or HR- subset
@sabcs.bsky.social
#bcsm
#SABCS24
@oncoalert.bsky.social
2/3 node -
85% stage II
2/3 HR+
pCR 10% improved, not significant in overall pop or in HR+ or HR- subset
@sabcs.bsky.social
#bcsm
#SABCS24
@oncoalert.bsky.social
December 11, 2024 at 12:15 AM
Dr. Waks presents MARGOT: TMP vs. THP x 12 wks for HER-2+ #bcsm w/ CD16 FF or FV (94% of those screened)
2/3 node -
85% stage II
2/3 HR+
pCR 10% improved, not significant in overall pop or in HR+ or HR- subset
@sabcs.bsky.social
#bcsm
#SABCS24
@oncoalert.bsky.social
2/3 node -
85% stage II
2/3 HR+
pCR 10% improved, not significant in overall pop or in HR+ or HR- subset
@sabcs.bsky.social
#bcsm
#SABCS24
@oncoalert.bsky.social
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Had a great time at CHOP getting critical feedback on my grant. A huge thank you to @andrewmibrahim.bsky.social, @jdimick.bsky.social, Lesly & Amy for hosting! What a great experience!
December 7, 2024 at 3:29 PM
Had a great time at CHOP getting critical feedback on my grant. A huge thank you to @andrewmibrahim.bsky.social, @jdimick.bsky.social, Lesly & Amy for hosting! What a great experience!
Congrats to M4 and current GenSurg applicant Christine Rogers on her 1st author publication in the American Journal of Surgery examining the FNR of axillary US in pts w/#breastcancer undergoing upfront surgery: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 18, 2024 at 2:26 PM
Congrats to M4 and current GenSurg applicant Christine Rogers on her 1st author publication in the American Journal of Surgery examining the FNR of axillary US in pts w/#breastcancer undergoing upfront surgery: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...