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Lung cancer needs to be prioritized as one of America’s top-5 public health problems. Learn how the VA understands this and is addressing it through a national initiative known as LPOP: spectrumnews1.com/ca/southern-ca…
Drew Moghanaki
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Drew Moghanaki
@DrewMoghanaki
MD, MPH, FASTRO - Lung Cancer Specialist & Endowed Thoracic Oncology Research Chair, UCLA | Co-Director, Lung Precision Oncology Pgm, VA Greater Los Angeles
- The standard of care for stage IA NSCLC can now officially change. [Ref: CALGB 140503] #lcsm nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
- BREAKING: A new randomized trial demonstrates the benefit of SBRT for patients with EGFR+ stage IV NSCLC. It demonstrates both PFS and OS benefits (n=62). 🇨🇳 #radonc @EGFRResisters @jillfeldman4 thegreenjournal.com/article/S0167-…
- I'd like to emphasize that @_ShankarSiva has set a new bar for preparing a talk. He used images derived using AI, and the transitions were simply spectacular. #ESTRO23 #radonc
- Look no further to learn which battlefront needs the most help. Hint: it isn’t prostate cancer.
- A new report from @_ShankarSiva shows why TOTAL METASTATIC ABLATION is preferred whenever feasible. #radonc 1/
- Still don't believe in the power of cancer advocacy? This bill was just signed by our governor. It declares that it will soon be a CRIME for an insurance company in California to deny biomarker testing for stage III or IV cancer. #lcsm #radonc leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billText…
- The Timmerman Files are finally published, along with the confession "In all honesty, except for the spinal cord, all other limits for this original table were my educated guesses". #radonc doi.org/10.1016/j.ijro…
- 🫁 The PACIFIC-5 study results are finally available. They provide randomized data supporting consolidation Durvalumab for patients with stage III NSCLC treated with either concurrent or sequential chemoradiotherapy. #radonc #ESMOasia24
- The next time that someone in the Ivory Tower perseverates over the value of studies that rely merely on a PFS signal, please share this slide that @jillfeldman4 created which sheds light on what patients often endure to get that PFS signal. #lcsm #radonc
- As we’ve got a series of British speakers at #ASTRO18, a primer is needed for us Americans to understand why they really mean. 🇬🇧
- 🫁 SBRT has forever changed lung cancer treatment. With sub-millimeter accuracy, we now treat and even cure lung cancer in a single session. There is zero downtime with this treatment as there’s no need for anesthesia or even lidocaine. It’s just amazing. #radonc
- I know at least a dozen radiation oncologists who have worried for decades that IMRT would increase the risk of secondary cancers compared to conventional 3DCRT. A SEER-linked Mediare study of 65,235 patients with at least 2 years of survival now tells us this. #radonc
