Lisa Force, MD, MPH
@lisaforce.bsky.social
Pediatric oncologist & researcher | Interested in #globaloncology #cancerepi #cancerdisparities | Aspiring to be a force for good | Believe in #healthequity #culturalhumility | She/her | Views my own
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We need mask mandates in healthcare settings more than ever
"Hospital staff are scrambling with damage control efforts implementing emergency masking policies and giving babies as young as 3 days old injections of immunoglobulin, an antibody that helps their fragile immune system try to fight off #measles."
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Newborn babies exposed to measles in Texas hospital
Infants barely three days old are receiving antibody injections to help protect against the virus. Nearly 300 cases have been reported in the outbreak.
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March 15, 2025 at 6:57 PM
We need mask mandates in healthcare settings more than ever
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Standardized oncology social media hashtags from jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... #oncsky #oncsm #medsky #hemesky
March 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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It's International #ChildhoodCancer Day.
Each year, 400 000 children & adolescents develop #cancer. Common types of childhood cancer include:
🔹Leukaemia
🔹brain tumours
🔹lymphomas
🔹solid tumours (such as neuroblastoma & Wilms tumour)
Learn more: bit.ly/2NeFF8B
Each year, 400 000 children & adolescents develop #cancer. Common types of childhood cancer include:
🔹Leukaemia
🔹brain tumours
🔹lymphomas
🔹solid tumours (such as neuroblastoma & Wilms tumour)
Learn more: bit.ly/2NeFF8B
February 15, 2025 at 10:14 AM
It's International #ChildhoodCancer Day.
Each year, 400 000 children & adolescents develop #cancer. Common types of childhood cancer include:
🔹Leukaemia
🔹brain tumours
🔹lymphomas
🔹solid tumours (such as neuroblastoma & Wilms tumour)
Learn more: bit.ly/2NeFF8B
Each year, 400 000 children & adolescents develop #cancer. Common types of childhood cancer include:
🔹Leukaemia
🔹brain tumours
🔹lymphomas
🔹solid tumours (such as neuroblastoma & Wilms tumour)
Learn more: bit.ly/2NeFF8B
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💔 The disparity in #ChildhoodCancer cure rates is staggering:
📈 More than 80% cure rate in high-income countries
📉 Less than 30% in most low- & middle-income countries.
Ensuring equal access to care is the key to saving lives
👉 bit.ly/4hPDeWN
📈 More than 80% cure rate in high-income countries
📉 Less than 30% in most low- & middle-income countries.
Ensuring equal access to care is the key to saving lives
👉 bit.ly/4hPDeWN
February 11, 2025 at 12:46 PM
💔 The disparity in #ChildhoodCancer cure rates is staggering:
📈 More than 80% cure rate in high-income countries
📉 Less than 30% in most low- & middle-income countries.
Ensuring equal access to care is the key to saving lives
👉 bit.ly/4hPDeWN
📈 More than 80% cure rate in high-income countries
📉 Less than 30% in most low- & middle-income countries.
Ensuring equal access to care is the key to saving lives
👉 bit.ly/4hPDeWN
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I finally understood what it means for global health to be in the world, but not of it
"Distance" is a great way to understand this notion
Thanks, Seye
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"Distance" is a great way to understand this notion
Thanks, Seye
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February 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I finally understood what it means for global health to be in the world, but not of it
"Distance" is a great way to understand this notion
Thanks, Seye
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"Distance" is a great way to understand this notion
Thanks, Seye
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Somewhere in the U.S., there’s a scientist staring at their NSF/NIH grant application wondering why they bother. This post is for you. Science and society both need you. Hang in there and know there is a whole community supporting you.
January 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Somewhere in the U.S., there’s a scientist staring at their NSF/NIH grant application wondering why they bother. This post is for you. Science and society both need you. Hang in there and know there is a whole community supporting you.
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How a WHO Staff Member Turned the US Withdrawal into an Act of Solidarity
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How a WHO Staff Member Turned the US Withdrawal into an Act of Solidarity
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January 25, 2025 at 7:21 AM
How a WHO Staff Member Turned the US Withdrawal into an Act of Solidarity
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Someone shared this with me, and I think it's beautiful. That's what I wish for everyone I love and appreciate in this New Year 2025, that your life is filled with an abundance of real luxuries. ❤️
January 1, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Someone shared this with me, and I think it's beautiful. That's what I wish for everyone I love and appreciate in this New Year 2025, that your life is filled with an abundance of real luxuries. ❤️
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"Access to essential medicines remains a global challenge. Medicines consistently display high prices, low affordability, and poor availability"
Sobering study with data from 54 low-income and middle-income countries
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Sobering study with data from 54 low-income and middle-income countries
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December 27, 2024 at 2:06 PM
"Access to essential medicines remains a global challenge. Medicines consistently display high prices, low affordability, and poor availability"
Sobering study with data from 54 low-income and middle-income countries
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Sobering study with data from 54 low-income and middle-income countries
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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“Instruments for racial health equity: a scoping review of structural racism measurement, 2019–2021”
#SocEpi #EpiSky #Methods #HealthEquity
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#SocEpi #EpiSky #Methods #HealthEquity
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Instruments for racial health equity: a scoping review of structural racism measurement, 2019–2021
Abstract. Progress toward racial health equity cannot be made if we cannot measure its fundamental driver: structural racism. As in other epidemiologic stu
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December 21, 2024 at 7:48 PM
“Instruments for racial health equity: a scoping review of structural racism measurement, 2019–2021”
#SocEpi #EpiSky #Methods #HealthEquity
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#SocEpi #EpiSky #Methods #HealthEquity
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A (mostly) quiet hero.
How Peter Buxtun Exposed the Notorious Tuskegee Syphilis Scandal
For years, he tried to expose the Tuskegee syphilis study – but no one would listen.
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2024 at 1:50 AM
A (mostly) quiet hero.
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Working in global health, I'm so rarely shocked by inequality anymore, but this is truly shocking
The richest 1% now has as much wealth as the rest of the world combined, according to Oxfam.
They are pushing planet Earth to the abyss
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They are pushing planet Earth to the abyss
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Oxfam says wealth of richest 1% equal to other 99%
The richest 1% now has as much wealth as the rest of the world combined, according to Oxfam.
www.bbc.com
December 15, 2024 at 10:34 PM
Working in global health, I'm so rarely shocked by inequality anymore, but this is truly shocking
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#ASHKudos to Rachel Rau, Sumit Gupta, the whole AALL1731 study committee, all of our COG sites, and most importantly, our patients and families who made these results possible. So exciting to officially see these results on the big stage at #ASH24 (and presented by a great mentor too!)
December 8, 2024 at 10:39 PM
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I never tire of seeing these progressively improved pediatric ALL survival curves, which represent one of the most remarkable achievements in all of medicine.
Amazing to see even more improvement with bispecific antibody #immunotherapy presented in the #ASH24 Plenary session. #hematology #leukemia
Amazing to see even more improvement with bispecific antibody #immunotherapy presented in the #ASH24 Plenary session. #hematology #leukemia
December 8, 2024 at 10:16 PM
I never tire of seeing these progressively improved pediatric ALL survival curves, which represent one of the most remarkable achievements in all of medicine.
Amazing to see even more improvement with bispecific antibody #immunotherapy presented in the #ASH24 Plenary session. #hematology #leukemia
Amazing to see even more improvement with bispecific antibody #immunotherapy presented in the #ASH24 Plenary session. #hematology #leukemia
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The horse is out of the barn - financial toxicity is the unrecognized adverse event, and I am so proud of Dr. Greg Knight for his resilience in pioneering work to try to help manage it. @shematologist.bsky.social led an extraordinary Symposium on Quality at #ASH24 @ash-hematology.bsky.social
December 8, 2024 at 4:59 PM
The horse is out of the barn - financial toxicity is the unrecognized adverse event, and I am so proud of Dr. Greg Knight for his resilience in pioneering work to try to help manage it. @shematologist.bsky.social led an extraordinary Symposium on Quality at #ASH24 @ash-hematology.bsky.social
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#ASH24 News: ASH Newborn SCD Screening Program in Sub-Saharan Africa Found Feasible: bit.ly/4faSNXk 🩸🌍
#ConquerSCD #Sicklecell #HemeSky #Hematology
#ConquerSCD #Sicklecell #HemeSky #Hematology
December 8, 2024 at 8:12 PM
#ASH24 News: ASH Newborn SCD Screening Program in Sub-Saharan Africa Found Feasible: bit.ly/4faSNXk 🩸🌍
#ConquerSCD #Sicklecell #HemeSky #Hematology
#ConquerSCD #Sicklecell #HemeSky #Hematology
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Staggering statistics at #ASH24 #TreatingFairly
Patients with cancer who go bankrupt are nearly 80% more likely to die regardless of disease status.
Our system quite literally kills people.
Patients with cancer who go bankrupt are nearly 80% more likely to die regardless of disease status.
Our system quite literally kills people.
December 8, 2024 at 12:17 AM
Staggering statistics at #ASH24 #TreatingFairly
Patients with cancer who go bankrupt are nearly 80% more likely to die regardless of disease status.
Our system quite literally kills people.
Patients with cancer who go bankrupt are nearly 80% more likely to die regardless of disease status.
Our system quite literally kills people.
"When a child doesn't respond to treatment or relapses, you don't know what really happened. Was it the cancer itself or was the medication at fault?" - Prof Lorna Renner
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December 5, 2024 at 6:11 PM
"When a child doesn't respond to treatment or relapses, you don't know what really happened. Was it the cancer itself or was the medication at fault?" - Prof Lorna Renner
This #GivingTuesday is the last day for 2024 #HCWvsHunger donations! If you’re able, you can help fight hunger with a donation to your choice of food bank. I hope for a 🌎 where individual donations aren’t needed, but in the meantime it sure feels good to make a dent in addressing food insecurity 🍎
The 2024 #HCWvsHunger competition is underway!! We are in our 5th year of this annual week-ish long competition. Donate to any food bank or anti-hunger org, 📸 your receipt, & log your donation by Tues 12/3/24 11:59p on behalf of a #MedSky team: hcwvshunger.org/how-to-donate/. More at HCWvsHunger.org
How to contribute
How to Contribute Donate between November 28 and December 3, 2024 to an organization of your choice fighting hunger– any amount helps! Feeding America can help you choose local ones. Decide wh…
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December 3, 2024 at 8:52 PM
This #GivingTuesday is the last day for 2024 #HCWvsHunger donations! If you’re able, you can help fight hunger with a donation to your choice of food bank. I hope for a 🌎 where individual donations aren’t needed, but in the meantime it sure feels good to make a dent in addressing food insecurity 🍎
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Just published: Our Canadian collaboration demonstrated no clear association between Socioeconomic Factors & Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Outcomes onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#childhoodcancer #pedhemeonc #healthequity
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#childhoodcancer #pedhemeonc #healthequity
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Association Between Socioeconomic Factors and Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Treatment‐ and Survival‐Related Outcomes in Canada
Background and Aims Studies examing the impact of socioeconomic factors on outcomes in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) have yielded inconsistent findings. We aimed to determine whether ...
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December 1, 2024 at 12:17 PM
Just published: Our Canadian collaboration demonstrated no clear association between Socioeconomic Factors & Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Outcomes onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#childhoodcancer #pedhemeonc #healthequity
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#childhoodcancer #pedhemeonc #healthequity
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Creating a #PHODocs starter pack! Let me know who I’ve forgotten & if you’d like to be added 🙂
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November 15, 2024 at 9:06 PM
Creating a #PHODocs starter pack! Let me know who I’ve forgotten & if you’d like to be added 🙂
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I created a starter pack for global health organizations
Let me know who else I can add!
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Let me know who else I can add!
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December 2, 2024 at 7:16 PM
I created a starter pack for global health organizations
Let me know who else I can add!
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Let me know who else I can add!
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A growing problem --- fake papers polluting systematic reviews. And interesting point that the gold-standard protocols that Cochrane is developing to weed out untrustworthy studies, are too much of an effort for systematic-review authors looking at 100s of papers. www.science.org/content/arti...
‘Systematic reviews’ that aim to extract broad conclusions from many studies are in peril
Fake papers are “poisoning the well” for these gold-standard syntheses, researchers say
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November 29, 2024 at 11:15 AM
A growing problem --- fake papers polluting systematic reviews. And interesting point that the gold-standard protocols that Cochrane is developing to weed out untrustworthy studies, are too much of an effort for systematic-review authors looking at 100s of papers. www.science.org/content/arti...
Reposted by Lisa Force, MD, MPH
"My planned 'simple' total hysterectomy morphed into an 8½ hr marathon, agony 4 my poor family in the waiting room. Yet I consider myself incredibly lucky that my malignancy was found at a relatively early stage since #ovariancancer is ... 1/2
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Ovarian Odyssey
In this narrative medicine essay, a pediatrician thwarted a likely fatal cancer after undergoing genetic testing after noticing a pattern in her family that turned out to be caused by a genetic variat...
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November 27, 2024 at 5:32 PM
"My planned 'simple' total hysterectomy morphed into an 8½ hr marathon, agony 4 my poor family in the waiting room. Yet I consider myself incredibly lucky that my malignancy was found at a relatively early stage since #ovariancancer is ... 1/2
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It is now indisputable that pregnant women needing emergency care are being allowed to die in states that have banned & criminalized abortion
Yet somehow it’s fine to ask 🤰 trainees / faculty to travel to these states for medical conferences or miss out on professional opportunities? #idsky #medsky
Yet somehow it’s fine to ask 🤰 trainees / faculty to travel to these states for medical conferences or miss out on professional opportunities? #idsky #medsky
NEW: Porsha Ngumezi is the fifth case we've reported on in which a woman died after not receiving a D&C or its second-trimester equivalent in time, or at all.
Her case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
Her case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments.
Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi’s case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
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November 26, 2024 at 2:57 AM