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Jasmine Sukumar MD
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Breast Medical Oncologist @mdanderson.bsky.social #bcsm #oncsky
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🎉Reunion w/ my co-fellow @jasminesukumar.bsky.social @mdanderson.bsky.social to discuss early #breastcancer adj tx w/ path germline muts on the @ascocancer.bsky.social Daily News podcast

👉Who needs testing?
👉OLYMPIA updates
👉Concurrent PARPi use w/ other adj tx

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ASCO Daily News: Advances in Adjuvant Therapy for High-Risk Early Breast Cancer With Germline Mutations
Dr. Jessica Sukumar and Dr. Dionisia Quiroga discuss advances in adjuvant therapy for patients with early breast cancer and BRCA1/2 mutations, including how to identify patients who should receive gen...
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February 2, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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🔻 Cancer mortality declined, averting 4.5M deaths since 1991, thanks to smoking reduction, earlier detection, & better treatments.
🔺 However, alarming disparities persist
🚺 Cancer incidence is rising in women
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January 17, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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#SABCS24 #bcsm #OncSky

🧵 COMET study randomized 957 F age 40+ w/ low risk ER+ #DCIS to guideline-concordant care (GCC, immed surgery etc) or active monitoring (AM, serial imaging-> bx/surg etc). At 2y, AM non-inferior to GCC for invasive #breastcancer, BUT important details…
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December 12, 2024 at 11:44 PM
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It's a difficult topic to discuss- weight. Hugely personal, not easy to change, but impt.

4% ⬆️ recurrence in pts w/ node + #bcsm obese vs. lean

2% ⬆️ recurrence in pts with N0 dz

📌Magnitude of effect larger among premeno.

📌ER + AND ER neg

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#SABCS24
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December 12, 2024 at 5:15 PM
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#SABCS24 #bcsm #OncSky #MedSky

📣 A germline variant in PCSK9 (V474I) is assoc w/ #breastcancer survival & causally drives mets (targets tumoral LRP1 & induces somatic pro-mets gene expression).
PCSK9 inhibition (used to ⬇️ cholesterol) ⬇️ mets.

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www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
A commonly inherited human PCSK9 germline variant drives breast cancer metastasis via LRP1 receptor
Characterization of a common germline variant in PCSK9 unveils a hereditary basis underlying breast cancer metastasis and suggests that PCSK9 inhibition therapy could be a promising strategy for breast cancer metastasis prevention.
www.cell.com
December 13, 2024 at 5:36 PM
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Wrapping up another fantastic #SABCS!

Amazing, practice-changing data were presented.

I’ve updated the algorithms and added key studies from the meeting— I finally ran out of space in HR+ disease!

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December 13, 2024 at 8:08 PM
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@maryamlustberg.bsky.social presents a summary of survivorship poster presentations #SABCS24 “Health promotion should be done in collaboration with our patients and should not create extra stress for them.” #bcsm
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December 12, 2024 at 2:32 PM