What do cancer patients actually die from? The precise causes of mortality and patient deterioration before death in patients with cancer remains poorly understood | → rdcu.be/dLgsZ ← | 🧵(1/5)

How patients die from cancer to many may be a difficult question to ask but for us understanding cancer in all its stages leads to better care for patients and points of inflection for interventions of all kinds! NCI Center for Cancer Research Cancer Research UK MD Anderson Cancer Center Koch Institute at MIT

Why do patients with cancer die? | Nature Reviews Cancer Heading to ⁦⁦Metastasis Research Society⁩ to hear great talks and discuss all aspects of cancer spread! It’s these discussions that lead to roadmaps & uncovering areas needing more study #research nature.com/articles/s4156…

Attending the MRS 2024 meeting at the Francis Cricket Institute in London. Opening speaker was Christina Curtis with a fantastic talk on metastatic evolution and highlighting her recent Science Magazine paper on germline epitope burden and tumor progression

What an honor for Mikala Egeblad Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center to receive the very well deserved Josh Fidler award! Her talk on neutrophil NETs mediate metastasis was brilliant! Humbled to be in the same session! Big thanks and kiddos to Leah Cook & Metastasis Research Society

Advocates should be front and center in cancer research & that is exactly what Alana Welm & Metastasis Research Society did at #MRS24 meeting Terrific session & discussion on partnering with advocates & how they can elevate our research as well as provide a unique perspective!

Grateful to be a part of immune regulation in cancer session - terrific group & even more honored to be a part of Metastasis Research Society - a group dedicated to #cancer metastasis - this group has grown and provides hope for many!!!

My mentor shining brightly & receiving Paget-Ewing award so incredibly well deserved & his work & legacy are large & far reaching! Thank you for being the most gifted and supportive mentor I could have ever asked for! As you said always look carefully & question

Don’t stress,,,, the tumor/neurons are listening! Erica Sloan Cancer Neural-Immune Lab & Humsa Venkatesh showing beautiful work stimulating & targeting this neural network process has striking impact on cancer progression & metastasis #MRS2024

Right back at you! Physician scientist #strong

You know your a doctor when your phone autocorrects album to albumin #doctor #life

The striking robe fitting for this newly minted PhD with an incredible bright career ahead - so proud of you Dr. Browne #proudPI

🚨An entire meeting dedicated to innovation and progress in solid tumor cell therapy!🚨 On behalf of my co-organizers and Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer, please save the date and spread the word! #ChristineBrown Jennifer Guerriero, PhD John Haanen Daniel Powell Lab @ UPENN Evan Weber #TIL #TCR #CAR #Synbio

Today MAGEA4 T cell therapy got approved by FDA Oncology The seeds planted by Dr Steve Rosenberg Surgery Branch NCI Center for Cancer Research for so many years are beginning to flower & patients are benefitting! Investment in basic & translational research matters National Cancer Institute

To better understand the challenges and needs of students today, and to identify opportunities to help, we have put together this Student Wellness survey. Please ask your students to fill it out, or even better, sit down with them and ask them these simple and direct questions. I

There is a rising incidence of early-onset (EO) cancers. Traditionally observed in adults over the age of 65, some solid tumors are now increasingly diagnosed in younger individuals under the age of 50 (annual percentage increase of 2.5% for pancreas, 5% for oropharynx, 8% for

My outstanding postdoctoral fellow giving a talk on the critical non-cellular components of cancer & our therapeutic approach to rebalance the stromal rich TME #SASS2024 #ECM #CancerResearch NCI Center for Cancer Research NCI CCR Pediatric Oncology Branch

Science is hard, it’s complicated, experiments fail, manuscripts get rejected, grants do not get funded, budgets are challenging but patients need us to keep learning. Beyond proud of this diverse, hardworking team who keeps pushing & innovating NIH