Alejandro Bertolet

Assistant Professor of RadOnc and MedPhys at @MGHCancerCenter/@harvardmed. Jerez 🇪🇸 ➡️ Sevilla 🇪🇸 ➡️ Philadelphia 🇺🇸 ➡️ Boston 🇺🇸 Lab: @bertoletlab

[Alejandro Bertolet @alebertolet]

As you might already know, thirteen (!!) years ago, on a Friday of January, my mother died out of breast cancer that metastasized her brain. I was a (struggling) undergraduate Physics student at the time, partly because of the great toll her disease had in all my family.

[Alejandro Bertolet @alebertolet]

@allisonoconn What effect would have wild type RAS inhibition in normal tissue per se? There were not too many considerable adverse events in the trial right?

[Matthew Herper @matthewherper]

People who don't follow cancer research often ask me why we haven't cured cancer. That perception masks a wonderful reality: We make amazing, stepwise progress every year, and the result is that many people live much longer today than they would have previously.

Right now we're in the thick of the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the biggest research meeting on new cancer medicines, and this morning a bunch of really important studies dropped. I'm going to review them here.

This first image is the result for daraxonrasib, a treatment for pancreatic cancer that is generating consdirable excitement. The green line is the probability of living for patients who got the new drug; the gray one is the chemo control group.

If you follow cancer drugs, a chart like this will make your breath hitch a little. I'm going to review these and some other data here.

[Alejandro Bertolet @alebertolet]

@MGBResearchNews @harvardmed @MghIRLab

[Bertolet Lab / b-lab @bertoletlab]

Congrats to Dr. @chuesaberral, awarded an NIH/NCI K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award! 🎉 His project predicts the radiation dose liver tumors receive in Y-90 radioembolization, before treatment, to make the therapy more precise and more curative. #Theranostics #Y90

[Bertolet Lab / b-lab @bertoletlab]

Congrats to Dr. @chuesaberral, awarded an NIH/NCI K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award! 🎉 His project predicts the radiation dose liver tumors receive in Y-90 radioembolization, before treatment, to make the therapy more precise and more curative. #Theranostics #Y90

[Alejandro Bertolet @alebertolet]

El malagueño @chuesaberral y su K99/R00 en su camino a la independencia como investigador en el Mass General y Harvard @DiarioSUR @canalsurmalaga @COPEMalaga @SER_Malaga @OndaCeroMalaga

[Bertolet Lab / b-lab @bertoletlab]

Congrats to Dr. @chuesaberral, awarded an NIH/NCI K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award! 🎉 His project predicts the radiation dose liver tumors receive in Y-90 radioembolization, before treatment, to make the therapy more precise and more curative. #Theranostics #Y90

[Bertolet Lab / b-lab @bertoletlab]

https://t.co/7Vs2gttANY

[Alejandro Bertolet @alebertolet]

@Jotas_Jugones Se da el curioso caso de que, siendo rivales por el descenso:
- el Levante quiere que el Mallorca gane (nunca baja en ese caso)
- y el Mallorca quiere que el Levante gane (o, al menos, no pierda, pues si pierde, nunca se salva el Mallorca)

[Víctor Muñoz @MunozLetrado]

Un chino cantando por bulerías una letrita del Torta es de lo mejor que puedo ofreceros hoy.

PD: el artista es Manuel de la China.

[Boston Sherry @bostonsherry25]

https://t.co/VUVUAGhyBm

[Alejandro Bertolet @alebertolet]

@Proserpinasb Las razones están disponibles para quien quiera leerlas. https://t.co/KA0Rbc1lB2

[Alejandro Bertolet @alebertolet]

Voy a meterme en un terreno espinoso por petición de @chuesaberral y dada la exposición que tenemos habitualmente a... LA CIENCIA Y LA ACADEMIA EN ESPAÑA. Hilo va.

[Robert Kearney @Robkearney1981]

🧵 Anyone who has visited Spain during Holy Week or watched videos of Spanish Holy Week processions often finds the mysterious hooded figures intriguing and confusing (this is especially true for Americans).

Who are these masked individuals, and why do they hide their faces?

Let's find out 👇

[Alejandro Bertolet @alebertolet]

Aclaro que esto es obviamente mi opinión, y que pese a estar muy asentado en EEUU, nada me gustaría más que hacer mejorar la investigación en España. Saludos.

[Alejandro Bertolet @alebertolet]

Voy a meterme en un terreno espinoso por petición de @chuesaberral y dada la exposición que tenemos habitualmente a... LA CIENCIA Y LA ACADEMIA EN ESPAÑA. Hilo va.

[Alejandro Bertolet @alebertolet]

... así te ofrezcan el dinero que te ofrezcan (que es irrisorio igualmente comparado con lo que se ofrece fuera... porque miseria solo trae miseria).
Gracias por leer.