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Regular symptom reporting can help your patients live better, and possibly longer. Dr. Vicky Forster talked to Ethan Basch about the evidence and to Gabrielle about efforts to integrate this approach into routine clinical care. cancerworld.net/regular-sympto… #QoL #PROMs

This is a scary, yet amazing discovery. Cancer can arise without mutations following transient loss of epigenetic gene silencing.

nature.com/articles/s4158…

I am so worried about the world right now on so many levels.

Very important to note here that qPCR positives are not the same as 'virus particles.' It's much easier to detect viral RNA by qPCR than it is to detect infectious virus or intact virus particles (as the article correctly notes).

This finding does have some big implications:

In a 1000 patient study on systemic inflammation after traumatic injury – we found new mediators of the response to injury, new factors that modulate cytokines/chemokines, and a new predictor of patient survival. medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

⏰Don't miss the next installment of our #CommunityEngagement Series on April 25th! Join us as Dr. Dr. Andrea C. Tricco of Unity Health Toronto & U of T Public Health discusses how patient partners are engaged at all levels of the SPOR Evidence Alliance

Read more & register: leongcentre.utoronto.ca/event/communit…

An interesting perspective on terminology here:

I have this beautiful book. The author and her family also own a farm in Algoma and make some terrific maple syrup :)

#NoLeafsNo

Another terrible day for the 'Nobody watches women's sports' crowd. 🎻

Tonight’s the night.

#LeafsForever

Another incredible and passionate cancer advocate has passed. I admired swaggsheila greatly. This past couple of weeks has been too much for the cancer advocacy community 😪. I am sad.

I gotta say, for living in a world so thoroughly committed to vibes only, the vibes are not good