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D. Ross Camidge @drcamidge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A wonderful day yesterday in rainy Ottawa for the THORACS meeting (thoracic rare cancers symposium) - so nice to be well enough to be productive and present - 💝

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D. Ross Camidge @drcamidge.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Bunn award made it here all the way from Seoul, South Korea! Lovely

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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"I don't fucking think so"

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D. Ross Camidge @drcamidge.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It is hard to imagine that my story gets any more interesting through repetition but our hospital system released their updated version of it this week. Enjoy www.uchealth.org/today/renown...

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World-renowned lung cancer expert faces the disease he has spent decades treating

After diagnosing and treating lung cancer for decades, he now faces advanced non-smoking lung cancer, deepening his empathy for patients.

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D. Ross Camidge @drcamidge.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Janet Freeman-Daily Cofounder of the ROS1ders patient advocacy group

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D. Ross Camidge @drcamidge.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Karen Reckamp from Cedar Sinai

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D. Ross Camidge @drcamidge.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

And another - Chad Rusthoven - radiation oncologist and ‘me’

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D. Ross Camidge @drcamidge.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Even though I’m not at the world conference on lung cancer in Seoul that’s just starting I have friends who send me selfies from it. I was awarded the top honor this year - The Paul A Bunn Scientific Award so I love the selfies from Steve Liu and Tina Cascone ‘with’ me 😂

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D. Ross Camidge @drcamidge.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

… who better than a palliative care doctor to also coincidentally help me to feel normal again.

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D. Ross Camidge @drcamidge.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Me and Petrillo. Although I had some downtime in July and August, I recorded this new episode when i was on the mend again. Dr Petrillo embodies passion in her chosen career… podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

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How Compassion and Research Build Palliative Care for the Precision Oncology Era

Podcast Episode · How This Is Building Me · September 9 · 48m

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D. Ross Camidge @drcamidge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Today, for the first time in 6 weeks I walked half a mile to the shops. There was some heavy breathing involved but I made it nonetheless. A little better every day…

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D. Ross Camidge @drcamidge.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

After all of August’s stresses it was lovely to be virtually normal and give the PHI prize lecture at UTSW in Dallas today. I thank my gracious hosts for letting me meet them where I was at.

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D. Ross Camidge @drcamidge.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Slowly recovering weight and stamina. But recovering

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D. Ross Camidge @drcamidge.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Got home after a week as inpatient. Breathing and cough much improved. Appetite- which turned off like a switch a month ago is coming back like a rheostat. For once in a long while I feel I’m recovering

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D. Ross Camidge @drcamidge.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

On the left is an empanada. A savory Argentinian pastry. In the middle and on the right is an empyema. A serious infection in the pleural space (you can see the pus in the tube coming from that area). I have only the latter.

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D. Ross Camidge @drcamidge.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Am on the right iv antibiotics but still having wild fevers. The plan is to treat til fevers stop.

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D. Ross Camidge @drcamidge.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

If the straw in my water bottle was my pleural catheter, and the outside of the bottle is my right chest wall, and somewhere under the water is my lung. Somehow the straw and water got infected.

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D. Ross Camidge @drcamidge.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Then this week I walked off a cliff. Cough, anorexia, gag vomit all there as before but Thursday August 6th I was somehow much worse. That evening fevers hit

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D. Ross Camidge @drcamidge.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

July 28-30 we added chemo back to the mix. In December the team had grown organoids ‘mini tumors’ from my sample and etoposide scored highly as active chemo. It’s not an awful drug - but it’s 3 consecutive days and you lose your hair. So that was last week

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D. Ross Camidge @drcamidge.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Still managed to get to DC and add some value and humor to the ALK summit. But when I was done and I realized I was worried about walking though airport and three hour flight back I began to think virtual not in person is going to be my future for a while

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D. Ross Camidge @drcamidge.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

It has been an interesting few weeks. July 15 i had a right kidney stent, right pleurodesis and right pleural catheter inserted to drain fluid and keep that lung expanded. The day after the surgery my appetite disappeared. vimeo.com/1215550213/f...

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ALK+Summit2026_How Dr. Ross Camidge Built a Life Worth Loving

This is "ALK+Summit2026_How Dr. Ross Camidge Built a Life Worth Loving" by Catch It In Time on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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CU Anschutz Cancer Center @cucancercenter.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

$100,000 will be matched through World Lung Cancer Day (8/1)! Consider making a gift today to the Ross Camidge (@drcamidge.bsky.social), MD, PhD, Thoracic Oncology Endowed Program Support Fund: bit.ly/4wLhXFe

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D. Ross Camidge @drcamidge.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I recorded this back in November 2025. Me and cody - a hospice chaplain - went live yesterday. Death with clarity and humor - just the way I like things 🤓 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

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Dying to Tell You

Mental Health Podcast · Updated Weekly · We are all born with an expiration date. Palliative Care Chaplain Cody Hufstedler sits down with people who are living with serious illness for intimate, one-o...

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D. Ross Camidge @drcamidge.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The ‘Rob’ referred to is rob meguid. Podcasted with me earlier this year 🤓https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-this-is-building-me/id1726421043?i=1000764389098

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How Surgical Determination Intersects With Human Connection: With D. Ross Camidge, MD, PhD; and Robert A Meguid, MD, MPH, FACS

Podcast Episode · How This Is Building Me · April 29 · 1h 7m

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D. Ross Camidge @drcamidge.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I think constriction was secondary to L4 and sacral bone met consolidation xrt in ‘22. Fixed with stent under same anaesthetic as Robs pleurodesis and pleurX . Doing well now just lung re-expansion work

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D. Ross Camidge @drcamidge.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It was a wild week. I knew I had the pleural effusion building up but on Friday I developed this right flank pain. I controlled it with simple analgesics but by Sunday it was making me vomit. Short story- I had right ureteric compression. My right kidney was swelling like tom and Jerry’s hosepipe

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D. Ross Camidge @drcamidge.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Swinging, Baby! Way better after fluid drained

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D. Ross Camidge @drcamidge.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Surgeon, scientist, drug developer, program leader - she’s got it all

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D. Ross Camidge @drcamidge.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Recently live: Me and FMB. Some people can just do it all. Funda is amazing at so many things, yet she leads her team excited at each members individual successes. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

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How a Passion for Translational Research Fuses Surgery, Science, and Phase 1 Drug Development: With D. Ross Camidge, MD, PhD; and Funda Meric-Bernstam, MD

Podcast Episode · How This Is Building Me · July 8 · 39m

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D. Ross Camidge @drcamidge.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The difference between the left and right is 10 days and 1.7 liters drained from my right lung. They don’t look different (my right is on the left as you look) because the fluid built up again quickly. I’m fine at rest but changing position makes me cough. Plan is a more permanent drain due soon.

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D. Ross Camidge @drcamidge.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The best explanation of these observations is that a new deposit, potentially of any cancer in the brain, requires resistance to whatever systemic therapy is ongoing AND NTRK-BDNF interactions. Block either and no new brain mets thttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1556086426001802

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D. Ross Camidge @drcamidge.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Sometimes I have to coax the learning from my guests. Encourage them to reveal what others can gain from their experiences. For Nora I just sat back and let her do her thing. Magnificent 😊

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D. Ross Camidge @drcamidge.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

To mark Father’s Day I learned how to make jewelry and today gave each of my daughters a sterling silver ring I’d made for them. Then we had dinner and watched Toy Story 5 at the movies. Simple pleasures, shared time.

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D. Ross Camidge @drcamidge.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

For some reason this made my day 😂

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D. Ross Camidge @drcamidge.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

After multiple requests from various people I let myself be a guest on my own podcast with Dr Erin Schenk as guest host. She dug deeper and in different directions than others

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D. Ross Camidge @drcamidge.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

As we exchanged how, as physicians, we had to be honest about our own experiences with marijuana, to destigmatize talking about it with patients we joked about not having tried chemotherapy either. At least for me that would change in the next three years

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D. Ross Camidge @drcamidge.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

The very talented Lisa Goldman sent me this watercolor earlier this year. She chose a poppy as they grow in disturbed ground and are beautiful. The sentiment is true for all of us, a diagnosis of cancer might emphasize this but it doesn’t own this thought

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D. Ross Camidge @drcamidge.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Live today. I got to be a voice on paul wheatley-price’s podcast. Ive known paul a long time and it was a very relaxed exploration of my dual role as expert and lung cancer patient. With a little bad language included for fun! on.soundcloud.com/EOQ898foSFG9...

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Ep 121. Both Sides of the Stethescope with Dr. Ross Camidge: Perspectives on EGFR+ Lung Cancer

In this episode, Dr. Paul Wheatley-Price speaks to Dr. Ross Camidge, our guest in this increidbly unique episode of "Perspectives", sharing his leading clinical expertise on the treatment of EGFR-posi

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D. Ross Camidge @drcamidge.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

A tale of two tkis. Lorlatinib prevents new brain Mets. Based on intracranial Duration of Response neladalkib (admittedly in later line) doesn’t show the same flat line. Anti-ntrk’s cns protective effect separate from driver oncogene status is writ large. Still hiding in plain sight

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