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Program Director, Cancer Early Detection & Diagnostics @MassGenBrigham @AmLungCSI #Equity #NoOneDeservesLungCancer #ScreeningSavesLives @IASLC She/her
Nov 2, 2022 20 tweets 134 min read
@TumorBoardTues 1/17 #TumorBoardTuesday #LungCancer #OncTwitter

42yo 👨🏽‍💼
PMH: never smoker
persistent cough

🩻PET/CT: 3.5 cm mass LLL & bulky, coalescing LNs in L hilum & mediastinum (AP 🪟, subcarinal, bilat paratracheal, supraclav)
Axillary LNs
🦴multi bony mets
🫀small pericardial effusion @TumorBoardTues 2/17 #TumorBoardTuesday #LungCancer #NSCLC

🫁🎥Mediastinoscopy shows adenocarcinoma with signet rings.
🔬 ALK IHC positive
🐟 FISH positive
🧬 PDL1 = 0

🤨What’s your recommended initial therapy:
Jun 7, 2020 10 tweets 21 min read
@LauraJBook Thanks for your help @LauraJBook. This is a commentary on the article by @AdamJSchoenfeld by my colleague @ZPiotrowskaMD. I think pts can’t see the full articles & are misinterpreting the abstract. Let me see if I can shed some light on this 1/n @LauraJBook @AdamJSchoenfeld @ZPiotrowskaMD To start with, SCLC transformation is still poorly understood. So we don’t have all the answers yet. From some brilliant work from @jakelee0711 we suspect that certain EGFR pts are predisposed to have this transformation and for others, it will not ever happen 2/n