My 2026 Update on Diagnosis, Risk Stratification, and Treatment of Myeloma is out! #OpenAccess
It’s current including all recent advances in immunotherapy. Managed to squeeze in iberdomide approval from 6 days ago! Bookmark!
https://t.co/VUheu7xlMr
#ICYMI: the long-awaited updated @ASH_hematology#ITP guidelines are here!
With so many new agents for managing ITP, I’m excited for these recs to better help our patients achieve durable platelet responses and improved QOL
Link: https://t.co/QY57AsYnBE
Surgery can play a key role in the mgmt of Head and Neck Cancer. So this week we welcome with Dr. Michael Topf @TopfHNS from @VanderbiltENT to talk surgical decision-making and management in HNC.
We talk complex decision-making, changes in the field, & so much more!
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For physicians who deal with lots of referrals on “abnormal free light chain ratio” incidental finding.
Our recommendation is unless the FLC ratio is <0.125 or >8 or unless you are worried about myeloma clinically, or dealing with biopsy proven AL amyloid or MIDD or PGNMID, ask referring physicians to repeat in 6 months and if stable consider it as possible LC-MGUS with subsequent testing only if symptoms concerning for myeloma, amyloid etc develop. Defer bone marrow biopsy or bone survey.
See algorithm below. @nejm
Note labs report K/L ratio. Not involved /uninvolved. For ease of use you can calculate involved (high value) / uninvolved (low value). And use 8 as cut off as shown in figure. Otherwise you have to follow one cutoff for lambda and one for kappa.
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I would like to share the story of how a patient with cancer came up with the idea for a randomized trial, & how listening to him saved a lot of lives.
1/ In 2002, I had just completed a randomized trial with the notorious drug thalidomide for the cancer, multiple myeloma.
🩸Need a refresher on all things iron deficiency?
Join one of our favorite hematologists, @acweyand, as she helps explain the nuances of iron deficiency!
https://t.co/OFpa2fGR4P
MSK researchers are applying findings from single-cell technology and computational tools toward understanding and treating metastasis. At #AACR24, @dana_peer discussed results from three studies on how cellular plasticity drives cancer metastasis. More: https://t.co/pWHuA9feSG
Don't Miss this important webinar that features the latest research presented at the annual ASH meeting for MDS and AML - Myelodysplastic Syndromes and Acute Myeloid Leukemia.
April 11 at 10:00 AM Eastern Time(US)!
#MDS#acuteleukemia#myelodysplasia#ASH23
Must listen!! Cancer and cardiovascular disease have so much in common, yet often, the cognitive distraction fails to acknowledge their interconnectedness!
Paging all incoming interns #MedTwitter!
Join us for our intern bootcamp tomorrow, April 2 at 1:30pm EST to learn to differentiate STEMI, NSTEMI, and other myocardial injuries!
You won't want to miss this ~vital~ review. Join for free here! https://t.co/7jq32u0wk4
Most viewed in the last 7 days from @JAMAOnc:
Do patients with resectable NSCLC and tumor programmed cell death 1 ligand 1 levels less than 1% benefit from neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy?
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#MedTwitter We're excited for our morning report with the LSU Health Shreveport Internal Medicine residency program tomorrow, March 9 at 12pm EST!
Join us for a fun case and to learn more about their residency program! https://t.co/7jq32u0wk4
The use of the VEGF inhibitors sorafenib, sunitinib, and pazopanib was associated a 2-fold increase in the risk of aortic aneurysm and aortic dissection in patients with cancer. https://t.co/2HyGVLJqEh