Tony Duffy

Palliative care 🩺 Dad 👶🏻 Gomez 🐶 Music 🎵 Guinea pigs 🐹 Personal account Threads 🧵to encourage discussion. “Be a voice of comfort in the silence of pain”

[Tony Duffy @Existential_Doc]

Every palliative care thread 🧵 I’ve ever done in one place. Just click on the box below and you will find them in the replies section- updated every month ⭐️

[Tony Duffy @Existential_Doc]

⚡️ “Palliative care threads”

https://t.co/uPImzkvlqw

[Mark Lewis, MD, FASCO @marklewismd]

Cheers, chills, and a standing ovation when RASolute 302 showed unprecedented survival on daraxonrasib for patients with progressive pancreatic cancer

Seldom do you sense you’re witnessing a historic moment in cancer care but this feels like ras targeting has arrived

#ASCO26

[Tony Duffy @Existential_Doc]

It was my mum’s 7th year Anniversary this week.

I don’t think we talk enough about how confusing it can be for health care professionals to reconcile their knowledge, experience and expectations with the reality of a loved one dying.

Writing This thread helped me somehow

[Tony Duffy @Existential_Doc]

Pancreatic cancer:
Palliative care reflections
A thread 🧵

Difficult to manage on so many levels.
My mum died from this condition and I was very grateful that she had the support of palliative care at home, in hospital and eventually the hospice.

Some things I’ve learned 👇

[Tony Duffy @Existential_Doc]

Autonomic dysreflexia: quick thread

An important condition to be aware of and be prepared for in any patient with a spinal cord injury or malignant compression at the level of T6 or above

[Tony Duffy @Existential_Doc]

Cachexia - still not explained enough to patients and an important condition to support future care planning at home 🧵

[Tony Duffy @Existential_Doc]

Cancer cachexia in palliative care

A Thread 🧵

The term Cachexia originates from the Greek words Kakos and Hexis and translates to “bad physical state”

It is estimated to be the direct cause of death in up to 20% of cancer patients.

[Tony Duffy @Existential_Doc]

Revisiting Cheyne-Stokes respiration in palliative care 🧵

[Tony Duffy @Existential_Doc]

Cheyne Stokes respiration at end of life- Thread

Can be scary to witness for family, loved ones and health care professionals looking on.

Understanding a little about what is happening may help alleviate some of that distress 🧵

[Prof. Mark Taubert @ProfMarkTaubert]

Encouraging advance in pancreatic cancer, an area with often very poor prognosis & fewer options than other cancers. Compared to conventional treatment, Daraxonrasib incr survival in metast pancreatic cancer in this landmark @NEJM trial:
- doubling of median survival time
- 12-month survival tripled ( from 18% to 53%)
- Improved ability to continue with treatment - only 1.2% stopped treatment versus 11.2%
👇
https://t.co/1oDD6omV5H

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@chris_sutton73

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@Grahamskifalkir @Record_Sport

[Celtic Football Club @CelticFC]

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Where history was made. Then and now 📸

#CelticFC🍀

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@TheCelticWay3 Celtic Type R 💪

[Celtic Football Club @CelticFC]

🎶🎤 Martin O’Neill! Martin O’Neill!

#CelticFC🍀🏆🏆

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@GeorgeFoulkes

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@GeorgeFoulkes What a riot 🤣

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@IanMurrayMP 🤣

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@cjs80 @DPJHodges Great entertainment this 🤣

[Tony Duffy @Existential_Doc]

@drol007 Sometimes we need to do what is considered general as specialists, leading by example and also for a bit of self preservation. When all you see is the most “complex” you can get desensitised to what others view as “complex” - thresholds for accepting referrals follow suit

[Tony Duffy @Existential_Doc]

@drol007 @nicolagwhite @drcrouchback @SimonTavabie @ProfMarkTaubert @NathanAGray @drkathrynmannix @FutureHealthJ @RCPhysicians General implies standard but the standard varies understandably, good enough is still better than nowt

[Tony Duffy @Existential_Doc]

@drol007 @nicolagwhite @drcrouchback @SimonTavabie @ProfMarkTaubert @NathanAGray @drkathrynmannix @FutureHealthJ @RCPhysicians Theres always a meme

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@drol007 @nicolagwhite @drcrouchback @SimonTavabie @ProfMarkTaubert @NathanAGray @drkathrynmannix @FutureHealthJ @RCPhysicians

[Prof Ollie Minton @drol007]

From our own correspondent – I fail to capture the Castle – Prague revisited – BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care - https://t.co/WbdXljaEmp always more science 🧬 @nicolagwhite @drkathrynmannix @BMJ_SPCare @ProfMarkTaubert @drcrouchback #eapc2026 cheers 🍻