Stephanie Graff, MD, FACP Profile picture
Director Breast Oncology, Lifespan Cancer Institute, Legorreta Cancer Center Brown Univ | Medical Advisor @drloveresearch | #bcsm #clinicaltrials | Views Mine
Jun 4, 2021 16 tweets 13 min read
Thread (?#) highlighting this remarkable session: DISMANTLING GENDER DISPARITIES IN THE GLOBAL ONCOLOGY WORKFORCE TOGETHER.

Really, what else are you even watching today #ASCO21!?! /1 First off—it is sooooo timely. ⏰
H/T @AlexCarolanTCL @TheCancerLetter /2 #ASCO21
cancerletter.com/the-cancer-let…
Oct 2, 2020 10 tweets 7 min read
October is breast cancer awareness month. You have probably seen the pretty little pink ribbons.

But it is important to say that breast cancer is not pretty.

An ugly thread #bcsm #BCAM /1 Some persons, through absolutely no fault of their own, present with metastatic disease.

In some persons, through absolutely no fault of their own, breast cancer comes back in another part of their body. #bcsm #bcam /2
Jun 9, 2020 6 tweets 2 min read
T2
KAITLIN randomized patients after adriacymycin/cyclophosphamide to either paclitaxel/trastuzumab/pertuzumab or TDM-1/pertuzumab.
#bcsm The two arms were nearly identical for primary endpoint IDFS, subsequently a “ negative “ trial. This trial raises all sorts of questions and controversies. Based on TRAIN-2, the administration of anthracycline to all patients likely could have been avoided #bcsm
Apr 1, 2020 4 tweets 3 min read
America,
In WW1, America lost 116,516 people, with over half (63,114) of those deaths attributed to influenza/disease rather than combat. I know these figures because #KansasCity is home to the remarkable the National WW1 museum. You should visit when this is all over.
Thread/1 Image But as I watch the numbers unfold and read the predictions, I can’t help but wonder—where will the international COVID19 memorial be located? New York? They already currently have 1552 #COVID19 deaths.
On September 11 there were 2,997 victims /2 Image
Dec 21, 2019 5 tweets 2 min read
Important research on supplements during chemotherapy #bcsm /1 There were indications that use of any antioxidant supplement (vitamins A, C, and E; carotenoids; coenzyme Q10) both before and during treatment was associated with an increased hazard of recurrence (adjusted hazard ratio [adjHR], 1.41; 95% CI, 0.98 to 2.04; P = .06) /2
Dec 13, 2019 15 tweets 6 min read
The debate begins! #SABCS19 /thread Image The audience going in is fairly divided. #SABCS19 Image