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🤔 Heading to #ASH26?
⭐️ Join us for a complimentary in-person Hematology Board Review for fellows & anyone prepping for boards 🩸
📅 Friday, December 11, 2026
🕗 8:00 AM–12:00 PM CT
📍 420 Julia St., New Orleans, LA
🔗 Register: https://t.co/PznLrha0Fi
We released our cheat sheet of highest yield topics last week for ABIM exams coming up Nov 17&18!
🫁 Onc:
GI 13.5%
Breast 13.5%
GU 12%
Thoracic 11.5%
Together, represent over 50%
🩸 Heme:
Neoplasms make up 35%
Prioritize leukemias, lymphomas, and plasma cell disorders
GL! 🙏🏼
Join us & @OncBrothers Dec 11 in New Orleans 8AM-12PM for a complimentary high yield interactive board review session on malignant & classical heme topics right before #ASHapalooza
Followed by a special career panel with our friend @rmistry91 from the @thefellowoncall🩸#ASH26
📣 another FDA approval in APMS
➡️ MANY in 2026 inc. pluvicto & capivasertib
➡️ now talazoparib/enza vs enza #TALAPRO3 for HRR-altered APMS (vs AMPLITUDE only BRCA2)
➡️ rPFS 77% vs 56% (HR 0.48)
⚠️ OS immature, G≥3 anemia 51%, 40% transfused; no docetaxel-triplet comparator
Incredible to see work on the very rare RCC subtypes: collecting duct & renal medullary CA at #ESMO26#REPRINT trial testing EV + P
🎯 22% ORR & 55% DCR overall ➡️ moving to stage 2!
Also very impt trials from @PavlosMsaouel in RMC on: ubamatamab, Sac-TMT, panitumumab…
Gorgeous AM in Retiro Park ahead of exciting RCC updates #ESMO26:
🌟final KN564 @DrChoueiri
🌟PROs of RAMPART
🌟CA-IX PET
🌟cabo/atezo in metastatic papillary RCC @maughanonc
🌟EVP in RMC
🌟LACO-Stim CART
🌟KIM-1 @VincentWenxinXu
🌟PDL1 #CARE1
🌟LITESPARK011 QoL @DrDanielHeng
💫#VOLGA: Durva + EV in cis-ineligible, like #EV303 but NO adjuvant EV here
⬆️ 2-year EFS (HR 0.51), OS (HR 0.58) & pCR (45% vs 10%)
Triplet arm OS not significant & ⬆️ tox
Less robust #s then EVP but how much benefit does adjuvant EV add? Can we use ctDNA/pCR to ��️? #ESMO26
Incredible cancer breakthrough #ESMO26 w/ new benchmark in melanoma & huge advances for all future personalized tx that could extend to other cancers
🌟 Ph3 Intismeran autogene mRNA vaccine improved RFS by 42% w/ Pembro vs Pembro alone, distant mets reduced by 38%, similar AEs
🔥 full house before #ESMO26 Presidential:
🔹#INTerpath001: Intismeran autogene + pembro vs pembro in resected melanoma
🔹#VOLGA: Periop durva ± treme + EV in MIBC
🔹#DeLLphi-305: Tarlatamab + durva vs durva as 1L maintenance in ES-SCLC
🔹Daro + ADT + RT in very high-risk PCa
Excited to join the Clinicals to Exam – Oncology Board Review during #ASH2026 in New Orleans on December 11!
Looking forward to strengthening my clinical knowledge, gaining valuable insights, and connecting with fellow hematology/oncology professionals!
#HemeOnc#Oncology #MedEd @OncUpdates@OncBrothers@TwoOncDocs #hematology
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C) In the NCCN the preferred 1L therapy for HR-positive, HER2-negative recurrent/metastatic disease is an AI combined with a CDK4/6 inhibitor; among these, the AI + ribociclib combination is specifically designated category 1, based on the OS benefit shown in the MONALEESA trials
We are back this week with our final #breastcancer series on metastatic breast cancer 🩷
A 62yo F presents with newly diagnosed ER-positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer with asymptomatic bone and nodal disease.
Which of the following is a preferred tx?
Highly recommended! 💕 2026 update focusing on metastatic breast cancer @TwoOncDocs There is no better way to learn new Oncology meds other than treat them like new songs (listen frequently) 🎶 Learn from the BEST on proper pronunciations of Onc meds. https://t.co/t0ZKNSVDbj
Answer is C) Tamoxifen for 5 years (with or without ovarian function suppression. The addition of OFS to tamoxifen (or use of an AI plus OFS) is reserved for patients at higher risk - young age (≤35–40 years), high grade, or nodal involvement -based on the SOFT and TEXT trials.
Today part 2 of our breast cancer series is out on Localized #BreastCancer 🩷
A 39yo woman with pt1c (1.5cm) ER+ breast cancer undergoes a lumpectomy with SLNB.
Which of the following adjuvant endocrine therapies is preferred in PRE menopausal women?
We are back with 2026 Breast Cancer updates! 🩷
In today’s episode, we cover an introduction on breast cancer, screening, prevention, DCIS, LCIS & more.
At what age range, should patients with triple negative breast cancer have genetic testing?
Today 9/24/26 new approval in 2L clear cell mRCC with some caveats #LITESPARK011
💢 4mo PFS gain, higher ORR (53% vs 40%) & DOR (23 v 12mo)
💢 OS is not yet significant
💢 how does it perform post 1L IO/IO vs IO/TKI, weight of extra toxicity & optimal sequencing still unclear