Tenika Mason

Wife, mom, animal lover, and brain cancer advocate. Our daughter is an Ependymoma survivor 🦋

[Tenika Mason @TMason74]

@FreddyLA7 You should visit Dillsboro, NC.

[Tenika Mason @TMason74]

@mtgreenee As the mother of a young adult brain cancer survivor—we need Universal Healthcare.

[Tenika Mason @TMason74]

@FreddyLA7 The Ocoee River. Great for white water rafting.

[Tenika Mason @TMason74]

@MarshaBlackburn @SenatorHagerty Save lives! Cosponsor the Access to Breast Cancer Diagnosis Act (H.R.3037/S.1500) and eliminate financial barriers to high-risk, supplemental and diagnostic breast cancer imaging like MRIs and ultrasounds. #breastcancer #hereditarycancer

[Tenika Mason @TMason74]

@CBSEveningNews We encroach on and destroy their habitat and wonder why we see more bears.

[Tenika Mason @TMason74]

@desjarlaistn04 I’m proud to join @NBTSTweets and brain tumor advocates across the country in urging Congress to support stronger brain tumor research funding and patient-focused policies. The need is urgent. #Head2Hill #GoGrayinMay

[Tenika Mason @TMason74]

@senatorhagerty I’m proud to join @NBTSTweets and brain tumor advocates across the country in urging Congress to support stronger brain tumor research funding and patient-focused policies. The need is urgent. #Head2Hill #GoGrayinMay

[Tenika Mason @TMason74]

@marshablackburn I’m proud to join @NBTSTweets and brain tumor advocates across the country in urging Congress to support stronger brain tumor research funding and patient-focused policies. The need is urgent. #Head2Hill #GoGrayinMay

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Kennedy said it under oath. Paying family caregivers for driving someone to a doctor's appointment is "rife with fraud" because the government can't verify the work.

Eleven million Americans are in this program. Six hundred thousand are on waitlists. In rural counties from Elkhart to Daviess, families take these jobs because there are no other qualified workers anywhere nearby.

The Secretary of HHS described ventilator management and seizure monitoring as errands. That's the record.

[Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins]

I asked FDA Commissioner Marty Makary if the promising new signs about the mRNA-based vaccine for pancreatic cancer made HHS reconsider its decision to cancel half a billion dollars' worth of federal funding for mRNA vaccine projects.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is planning to widen the shipping channel leading into Port Everglades, blasting through a coral reef and dredging up sediment that could smother acres of coral, federal scientists say. https://t.co/rmhT1JS3Rn

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

Want to know the craziest part about insurance company Pre Authorization Denials ?

The insurance company defines the network of providers the patient can use

When they deny care, they are effectively saying "we don't trust the judgement of the doctors we require you to use" 🤯🤯🤯

[Dr. Catharine Young @DrCatharineY]

Incredible news out today.

The same mRNA tech used in COVID vaccines is now training the immune system to recognize triple-negative breast cancer.

In a new study, 10 /14 patients remained relapse-free at ~5-year mark.

This is why we fund science and support mRNA technology!

[Rep. Jake Auchincloss 🟧 @RepAuchincloss]

mRNA:
what happened — a COVID vaccine designed in an hour & delivered in months
what’s coming — personalized cancer vaccines
what’s now — a politician at FDA overruling career scientists to cancel the progress

[RNAction @RNAction]

Thank you @SenatorWarnock for highlighting the adverse impact federal loan limits could have on #nurses & patients' access to care!! (1:08:38 - 1:09:44)
https://t.co/rK8hDvg5qc

[Jonathan Reiner @JReinerMD]

HHS cancels $500 million in mRNA research, a $600 million contract to develop an mRNA bird flu vaccine, narrowed criteria on who should get the mRNA COVID vaccine, and now refuses to review a completed study of a mRNA flu vaccine. If you were trying to kill a technology, and a company, this is what you would do. Someone at HHS seems to have a thing about the President’s truly lifesaving mRNA vaccines.
https://t.co/P6OQcre6ZK

[Tenika Mason @TMason74]

Hi @marshablackburn, I'm joining @NBTStweets for #AdvocateFromYourState to raise our voices for the #braintumor community. Please: Co-sponsor the BRAIN Act (H.R.2767/S.1330) + Support FY26 brain tumor research funding + back a Childhood Cancer Package

[WTVC NewsChannel 9 @newschannelnine]

NEW: Major health insurance CEOs were in front of lawmakers for back-to-back grilling on the cost of care as lawmakers try to grapple with how to lower prices and deal with an industry they see as ripping off Americans to pad corporate profits: https://t.co/bwlDITxCLF

[Dr. Catharine Young @DrCatharineY]

The data is in. We are crippling our scientific system.

In one year:

8,000 federal research grants frozen or terminated

25,000 scientists removed from federal agencies

Fewer NIH & NSF awards than at any point in a decade

This will have devastating long term consequences.

[Tenika Mason @TMason74]

@RepKatCammack Premiums are unaffordable, deductibles too high, hospitals & providers want pre-payment before visit/procedure is filed w/h insurance. Insurance routinely denies covering inhalers. Insurance & health systems limiting access to care when they don’t agree on reimbursement rates.