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Lola Fayanju, MD

@drlolafayanju.bsky.social
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Breast surgeon and health services researcher. Chief, Division of Breast Surgery, University of Pennsylvania. Mom, wife, sister, daughter. Thoughts=mine.

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pennsurgery.bsky.social @pennsurgery.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Our Chief of breast surgery @drlolafayanju.bsky.social talks with @nbcnews.com about why we are seeing more and more young women diagnosed with breast cancer. www.nbcnews.com/health/women...
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Celebrity breast cancer announcements highlight rising rates in young women
Breast cancer rates are rising faster in younger than older women. Doctors say multiple factors are likely to be at play, including lifestyle, hormones and environmental exposures.
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Penn Center for Cancer Care Innovation @pc3innovation.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Several young celebrities announced #breastcancer diagnoses in the past year - reaffirming the rising rates among women under 50. PC3I Program Director @drlolafayanju.bsky.social spoke with @nbcnews.com, recommending that young women with symptoms go to centers experienced in breast imaging. #bcsm
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Celebrity breast cancer announcements highlight rising rates in young women
Breast cancer rates are rising faster in younger than older women. Doctors say multiple factors are likely to be at play, including lifestyle, hormones and environmental exposures.
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pennsurgery.bsky.social @pennsurgery.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
New study led by Kriyana Reddy and @drlolafayanju.bsky.social finds that increased distance to care prolongs time to surgery (TTS) for rural patients with breast cancer. But rurality, independent of distance, has an intrinsic protective effect on TTS.
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The Effect of Rurality on Time to Surgery and Overall... : Annals of Surgery
hip between rurality, proximity to care, TTS, and OS remains unknown. Methods: We identified females≥18 years with stage 0-III breast cancer diagnosed 2004-2019 who received upfront surgery in the ...
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Penn Center for Cancer Care Innovation @pc3innovation.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
PC3I Program Director @drlolafayanju.bsky.social recently spoke with Cancer Network about potential initiatives to address racial disparities and other social barriers to receiving guideline-concordant #breastcancer care. #bcsm #Oncsky #cansky
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Addressing Racial Disparities, Social Barriers to Breast Cancer Care
Strict inclusion criteria may disproportionately exclude racial minority populations from participating in breast cancer trials.
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PennLDI @pennldi.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
A new study finds that for rural breast cancer patients, living farther from care is associated with prolonged time to surgery (TTS). But rurality itself—independent of distance—is associated with shorter TTS. Read more: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40143820/
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The Effect of Rurality on Time to Surgery and Overall Survival among Women with Breast Cancer - PubMed
Although geographic proximity to care mediates the relationship between rurality and prolonged TTS, rurality has an intrinsic protective effect on TTS that is independent of the adverse effect of incr...
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pennsurgery.bsky.social @pennsurgery.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Dr Cara Berkowitz presenting work from @drlolafayanju.bsky.social Penn Breast Surgery lab at #SSO2025
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PennLDI @pennldi.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
A study by @drlolafayanju.bsky.social & colleagues found only 25% of women w/ inflammatory breast cancer received all guideline-concordant care. Among them, survival rates were similar across races—highlighting standardization as a way to improve equity. Read more: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40009385/
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Trends in Guideline-Concordant Care for Inflammatory Breast Cancer - PubMed
In this cohort study of women with nonmetastatic IBC, there were no disparities observed in GCC receipt, but only 25.1% of patients with IBC received all forms of GCC for which they were eligible. Amo...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/02/2025
Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Black women are currently 0.8% of full Professors in US medical schools. Black students represent about 4% of the MD-PhD candidates in US programs with significant attrition in these numbers regarding how many of us stick to it and try to make a career out of it.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
As we watch all mention of diversity actively get scrubbed from the NIH website in real time it's important to know that, we were not taking over anything, we were just trying to exist. - Only 2% of NIH R01 grants are awarded to Black investigators. The goal is total erasure/elimination.
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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
The entire website for the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) is very nearly stripped bare. This is so, so devastating. orwh.od.nih.gov/research/fun...
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PennLDI @pennldi.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
@kitdelgado.bsky.social, LDI Senior Fellow, has been elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI)! His groundbreaking work in public health and emergency medicine is making a global impact. Learn more: ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/res...
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Kit Delgado Elected to American Society for Clinical Investigation
Kit Delgado, MD, MS, LDI Senior Fellow and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Epidemiology at the Perelman School of Medicine, has been elected to the American Society for Clinical…
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