Michael LaPelusa, MD
@MichaelLaPelusa
Hematology/Oncology fellow @MDAndersonNews | Alum @VUMCMedicineRes | Member @ASCOTECAG | GI cancers, trials, 🇺🇸🇲🇽 border health services | Views are my own.
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Honored to be the next chair of ASCO ASCOTECAG and follow in the amazing footsteps and leadership of Fernando Diaz, MD!!!
Very grateful👏🏻for all of the amazing mentors who have helped me along the way Razelle Kurzrock, MD Sumanta K. Pal, MD, FASCO Vivek Subbiah, MD Jun Gong jc gilberto lopes ❤️
This is the #Algorithm we have used during our discussion w/ Tanios Bekaii-Saab, MD for #HCC !
#OncTwitter #MedTwtitter #gism #MedEd CancerNetwork® #OncEd #LiverCancer
LISTEN NOW: Nazli Dizman shares the intricacies of her journey towards becoming an oncologist in the United States. MD Anderson Cancer Center
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#TumorBoardTuesday Mike Pishvaian Integrity CE, LLC 1/17 #TumorBoardTuesday #OncTwitter
60yo♂️ w/no FH of🦀
😷Abd pain+biliary obstruction
🩻4cm pancreatic mass+multiple <1cm liver lesions on MRI/MRCP c/w metastases (too small to biopsy)
📈Initial CA 19-9 = 2320
✅Underwent ERCP + stent
Check out this awesome piece led by Chris Cann, MD Fox Chase Cancer Center on the under-utilization of supportive care in patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer! Out now in ESMO - Eur. Oncology GI! sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=Ga…
How can #liquidbiopsies uniquely interpret the efficacy of novel #immunotherapy combinations in the neoadjuvant space?
Just out #openaccess in Nature Medicine
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EC Action Network Johns Hopkins Thoracic Oncology Cancer Research Institute Vincent Lam
Out in Nature Medicine our phase Ib study of neoadjuvant nivo/nivo+LAG-3 + chemoRT in esoph/GEJ cancer; linking ctDNA w path/immune responses and RFS. nature.com/articles/s4159… Elsa Anagnostou Johns Hopkins Thoracic Oncology Conquer Cancer, the ASCO Foundation #esophagealcancer 1/5
.Heidi Ledford tackles an enigma that so many oncologists & researchers are grappling with:
Why are so many young people getting cancer?
nature.com/articles/d4158…
Featuring the voices of Dr. Cathy Eng S. George Barreto Kimmie Ng, MD, MPH Sonia Kupfer Shuji Ogino
There’s a new Cancer Grand Challenges…
Read about our experience using serum GH as a prognostic biomarker for pts w advanced HCC treated w durva/treme! Similar to what’s previously been reported for pts treated w atezo/bev. Is targeting GH signaling next? MD Anderson Cancer Center Dove Medical Press dovepress.com/articles.php?a…
2) Border disparities; it seems appropriate that I discuss this in greater depth as both the former President and current President are visiting the border region today. One of the five priority areas identified by the president’s President Biden cancer panel #NationalCancerPlan includes,
Two new studies hint at a greater understanding of how to apply #immunotherapy in early and advanced #HCC , but also highlight complexities and gaps in this rapidly evolving field.
News & Views from David James Pinato 🇺🇦 & colleagues @ImperialCollege UPO - Università
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Congratulations to ASTCT Survivorship SIG Lifetime Achievement Award winner Bipin Savani of Vanderbilt University. 🎉 Thank you for your contributions to the transplantation and cellular therapy field. #Tandem24
#LatinoCancer2024 Dr. Rebecca Palacios bringing a much-need focus on cancer disparities for Latinas living along the US-Mexico border. #LatinosInOncology
Amazing journal club by star MD Anderson Cancer Center fellow Jenny Xiang on Atezo-Brain (GECP17/05) with expert commentary provided by the one-and-only Eric K. Singhi, MD! An interdisciplinary approach to patients with NSCLC and untreated intracranial metastases is crucial.