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Wendy Woodward, MD, PhD

@ibcradiation.bsky.social
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Radiation oncologist, inflammatory breast cancer doctor and researcher at MDACC (posts are my own). #medsky #radonc #bcsm #oncsky #cansky #radoncsky

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 20/09/2026
“The arrangement would give Vought, the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, a direct role in determining how NIH distributes its $48 billion in congressionally-appropriated money.” Bypassing the many checks and balances at NIH on grant funding decisions.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/09/2026
NEW: The Trump Administration is planning to slash human subject research regulations by redefining informed consent. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/trump-plan...
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Trump Plans to Redefine Informed Consent for Human Research Subjects
The Department of Health and Human Services has noticed a forthcoming rule on the OMB regulatory information site to redefine what undue influence means for vulnerable human research subjects
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Wendy Woodward, MD, PhD @ibcradiation.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/s... Pls call your reps (5 calls app is great for this) and calmly support funding the best science as ranked by field specific experts after extensive careful review (current state). Not the best science unless this guy (Vought) disagrees (no one voted for this). #cansky
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White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants
Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Tips to share the mental load: - Communicate clearly w/ your partner - Create a shared calendar of family events - List out tasks and divide up ownership. Don't worry about exact 50/50. Aim for a division that feels equitable to both of you - Have regular check-ins www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Why more women carry the 'mental load' - and how couples can share it
Planning, organising and remembering household tasks often fall disproportionately to mothers - here are some tips to help.
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Douglas Natelson @nanoscaleviews.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
🧪⚛️ NSF, NIH - when agencies spend (or do not spend) money in ways that seemingly defy congressional appropriations. Article I only means something if the majority in Congress wants it to mean something. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2026/09/nsf-...
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NSF, spending, and the end of the fiscal year
We are less than one month away from the end of the federal fiscal year, and traditionally there are internal deadlines for agencies to allo...
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Wendy Woodward, MD, PhD @ibcradiation.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Can’t get to clinic fast enough👇👇👇🎉 #cansky #oncsky
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Wendy Woodward, MD, PhD @ibcradiation.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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‘Tour de force’ mouse study shows a gut microbe can promote memory loss
Research suggests the microbiome may contribute to cognitive decline—but its relevance in humans is unclear
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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
1/16 What if #stringtheory wasn't a complicated invention of physicists... but the only thing that could emerge from a few basic rules? A new study from Caltech (and collaborators) says just that. Let's see what it's all about.🔭🧪⚛️ - www.caltech.edu/about/news/s... #physics #science
Diagram from the APS journal Physics. On the left, two particles come in and two go out in a four-point collision. On the right, the same process is shown as the particles behaving like closed strings.

Credit: APS / Alan Stonebraker

Source: https://physics.aps.org/articles/v19/88
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Wendy Woodward, MD, PhD @ibcradiation.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I’m still registered. Check yours TX!!
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Wendy Woodward, MD, PhD @ibcradiation.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Adults have struggled to set rules for AI in school. These teens figured it out. - NPR Amazing collective power of bright students taking agency over their future. 🩷
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Darcy Burbage, DNP, RN, AOCN @darcyburbage.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
High-Dose Oral Vitamin D for Toxic Effects of the Skin Associated With Chemotherapy and Radiation jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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High-Dose Oral Vitamin D for Toxic Effects of the Skin Associated With Chemotherapy and Radiation
This case series evaluates the clinical response, safety profile, and time to improvement for high-dose oral vitamin D in patients with toxic erythema of chemotherapy and acute radiation dermatitis.
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
🧪 Russ Vought's OMB proposed rule threatens the quintessential brand of American innovation. Currently, research for federal funding is evaluated by experienced experts. Now, a political appointee may get the final say. Think 1930s Nomenklatura, Lysenkoism. Comment period ends July 13.
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Dee Chan @deechan17.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
My late husband died of lung cancer about 22 years ago. He was a high energy theoretical physicist and when we were told it had metatisized to his brain, it broke his heart. If something could have prevented that...😢 Brain cancer breakthrough at McMaster University share.google/u71uco5p5QIF...
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A new therapeutic approach developed by McMaster researchers could help prevent brain cancer. Here’s how.
A team of researchers at McMaster University may have unlocked the key to intercepting cancer cells before they reach the brain.
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Bruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
GOOD NEWS! A personalized mRNA vaccine, known as mRNA-4157, has shown promise in keeping melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, from returning. FIVE years later, NEARLY 70% of people in the vaccine group are CANCER-FREE. The vaccine also cut a person’s risk of the cancer metastasizing by NEARLY 60%.
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A personalized vaccine for melanoma cut the risk of cancer returning after five years
If the vaccine is effective in a late-stage trial, it would be “paradigm-shifting,” one expert said.
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
We keep talking about the Epstein files. I am gonna keep talking about the new OMB rule. It puts science (& new treatments at risk) The rule change sweeps over agencies including Education, NSF, NASA, HHS. It is a politically motivated cancel culture of "woke science" & more. 🧪 bit.ly/4v2X4nQ
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The war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it
‘Everyone will be affected, not just scientists. Every community in the country.’
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
The Commanders have had about 16 starting quarterbacks over the last 30 years that cannot throw as good as this
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Based on a new NOA recieved this month, we are looking for a postdoctoral fellow with solid foundation of molecular skills, creativity, and translational passion to help us develop innovative CARs for targeting discrete subsets of T cells. DM or email me if interested
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JewelzinAZ @jewelzinaz.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
THE OFFICIAL @standupforscience.net GUIDE FOR TALKING TO ANYONE ABOUT THE OMB RULE PROPOSAL!! www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a...
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How To Talk to Anyone About OMB-2026-0034 — Your Site Title
Written By: Colette Delawalla, PhD, CEO
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Nature @nature.com · 05/06/2026
Researchers say they have used a precise genome-editing technique called base editing to alter the genome of human embryos for the first time, an announcement that prompted both excitement and dismay. go.nature.com/3RUBKD6
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First precise genome editing of human embryos triggers praise and alarm
The lead scientist on the use of ‘base editing’ in very early embryos say that the technique is far from ready for the clinic, but critics worry that the work will spur a rush to commercialization.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Welp, this is a goddamn nightmare.
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International Space Station astronauts under evacuation orders
Nasa says Russian crew trying to fix worsening air leak in its portion of orbital laboratory
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
An important read. When you starve federal funding, next gen treatments are out of reach. Philanthropy won't replace an entire 80 yr old infrastructure. Only certain discoveries get press coverage. But the work leading up to them was quietly decades in the making. 🧪 www.ms.now/opinion/canc...
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Opinion | The U.S. is dangerously close to defunding miracles like the one that saved my life
Jenney Bitner: I'm not a scientist or policy expert. But I know that the drug that kept me alive for my children was built on a foundation of public investment.
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KaminskiMed @kaminskimed.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I know many here will hate me for it, but BlueSky is so somnolent that I had to go back on evil Twitter to show my support for @iwashyna.bsky.social Nobel Prize for the People of Minneapolis!! #Truth2Power x.com/kaminskimed/...
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Make your voices heard! The proposed OMB rule negates peer review for approval of grant applications. The political appointee will have the power to randomly override peer review. The last thing we need is the fear of grants getting terminated based on whim. Russ Vought is all over this.🧪
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Ian Horsewell @teachingofsci.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Fascinating from a physics (and physics teaching) point of view. And terrifying when you consider the surveillance possibilities. #ChatPhysics
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Keith Trujillo @neurochicano.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Urgent! 🧪🧠
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Emma Mason, Kerry Noble & Mary Rice @ricemasonnoble.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Report by @oncodaily.bsky.social on breast cancer study presented at #ESTRO26 oncodaily.com/oncolibrary/... @estroradiotherapy.bsky.social
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OLIGOMA Trial: SBRT Extends PFS in Oligometastatic Breast Cancer - OncoDaily
OLIGOMA trial showed SBRT improved progression-free survival in oligometastatic breast cancer, supporting metastasis-directed therapy.
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The OncoAlert Network 🚨 @oncoalert.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Day FOUR of #ESTRO26 Coverage by OncoAlert 🚨 UK National Breast Radiotherapy Audit: Real-World Heart and Lung Doses from 30,000 NHS Treatment Plans Presented by Imogen Locke 🇬🇧 #RadOnc ☢️ #BreastCancer @estroradiotherapy.bsky.social
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
It's the workplace--not the mothers--that needs to be fixed. One company has core hours of 9:30am-3pm in an employee’s time zone for everyone to be reachable and meetings to be scheduled. Outside these hours, employees structure their time around real life. www.fastcompany.com/91541720/cor...
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Corporate America is crushing senior-level mothers. Here’s how they’re coping
100+ women tell Fast Company how balancing motherhood and their careers has become increasingly fraught. Their clever fixes—and why they're not enough to fix a broken system.
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Wendy Woodward, MD, PhD @ibcradiation.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
The CSS here is impressive. #radonc #bcsm #cansky
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The OncoAlert Network 🚨 @oncoalert.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Day THREE of #ESTRO26 Coverage by OncoAlert 🚨 Fifteen-year outcomes of the randomised APBI-IMRT Florence phase III trial of partial versus whole-breast irradiation in early #BreastCancer Presenter: Carlotta Becherini 🇮🇹
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The OncoAlert Network 🚨 @oncoalert.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Day THREE of #ESTRO26 Coverage by OncoAlert 🚨 Metastases-directed treatment in Patients with Oligometastatic Breast Cancer: Results from the OLIGOMA-trial (ARO-2021-09, NCT04495309) Presented by David Krug 🇩🇪 #RadOnc ☢️ @estroradiotherapy.bsky.social
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Wendy Woodward, MD, PhD @ibcradiation.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Provocative! I’d love to see the subtype distribution if anyone has it.
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The OncoAlert Network 🚨 @oncoalert.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Day THREE of #ESTRO26 Coverage by OncoAlert 🚨 Comparing Quality of Life (QOL) after adjuvant breast regional nodal radiotherapy (RNRT) within HYPORT Adjuvant trial (NCT03788213) Presented by SANJOY CHATTERJEE 🇮🇳 #RadOnc ☢️ @estroradiotherapy.bsky.social
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Wendy Woodward, MD, PhD @ibcradiation.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Very thoughtful discussion in this paper- well worth the time to digest these data in context. #radonc
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The OncoAlert Network 🚨 @oncoalert.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Twenty-year results of the randomized European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer trial 22922/10925 evaluating internal mammary chain and medial supraclavicular lymph node irradiation in stage I–III breast cancer #ESTRO26 acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3322/...
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NEJM.org @nejm.org · 17/05/2026
The authors of a new Perspective argue that clinicians are rightly expected to disclose their gaps in knowledge or their inability to forecast an outcome. Yet emerging AI tools often cannot, or will not, do the same. Read the Perspective: nej.md/4fgdg0D
Clinician and AI interaction comic: Panel 1 shows a clinician pondering a medication list with Pikachu included. Panel 2 displays an AI robot affirming Pikachu as a medication for neuropathic pain. Panel 3 features another AI robot questioning Pikachu as a medication and requesting verification.
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Vein finders are revolutionizing patient care by using near-infrared light to map veins in real-time, reducing failed punctures and improving comfort.
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cordeliaappleby.bsky.social @cordeliaappleby.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
At last, a pill that can prevent COVID after exposure to infected people
Drug arrives years after pandemic’s peak, but could still offer protection to vulnerable populations.
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Important! PhD students comment on now Trump's cuts affected their research. Our govt has lost more than 10,000 STEM PhDs since 2025. Samsara Upadhya qualified for an F31 diversity grant, but her project itself was not DEI related. It was terminated. 🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvrA... #Pinks
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Young Scientists Speak Out: Trump Grant Cuts and Chaos
YouTube video by Annika Horne
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
A good read on the hallmarks of pseudoscience 🚩Oversimplification of complex topics 🚩Science washing of ancient beliefs 🚩Biased handling of positive & negative results 🚩Vague claims using ambiguous language 🚩Logical fallacies, i.e., "it is natural therefore is safe" 🧪 www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...
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The Hallmarks of Pseudoscience
I’ve been investigating pseudoscientific claims for 13 years now. The word “pseudoscience” means “fake science,” something that superficially looks like science—and is often sold as such—but that isn’...
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Wendy Woodward, MD, PhD @ibcradiation.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
The incomparable Dr. Daphne Haas-Kogan, Janeway Lecturer, at #ARS26 normalizing career lows, the grueling challenges in balancing work and life, and the value of confidently missing out. #radonc #cansky
Speaker and slide of family.
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Wendy Woodward, MD, PhD @ibcradiation.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Excited about our @mdanderson.bsky.social Inflammatory Breast Cancer abstracts at #AACR26! Great job from our IBC lab teams! @debeblab.bsky.social
Abstracts Sunday at 2 and Monday at 2 about IBC
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Wendy Woodward, MD, PhD @ibcradiation.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
More of this!! apple.news/ABwts1avMTta...
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What Happened After a Teacher Ditched Screens — The Atlantic
Why one early adopter of computers in classrooms has decided to toss them
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Wendy Woodward, MD, PhD @ibcradiation.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Awesome nerd day today with our amazing and fun TRIUMP IBC Team talking science and updating our advisory board! @debeblab.bsky.social @annalee-nguyen.bsky.social @mdanderson.bsky.social @utaustin.bsky.social #bcsm #cansky
Team posingElevator selfie
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Wendy Woodward, MD, PhD @ibcradiation.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Ironic the specialists to investigate the LaGuardia crash can’t get there because air travel is such mess. apple.news/AnhIPNeGBTHO...
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U.S. officials had to ‘beg’ to get LaGuardia crash investigator past Houston TSA — Houston Chronicle
The National Transportation Safety Board had to
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Wendy Woodward, MD, PhD @ibcradiation.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Happy to share our new work on CCR7 expression profiles in IBC tumors and models. It is a beginning with more functional and protein work needed. But we’re intrigued and will continue to explore. #ibcsky #cansky www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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CCR7 immune cell receptor expression in inflammatory breast cancer - Scientific Reports
Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is characterized by congestion of dermal lymphovascular spaces by tumor emboli. We characterized expression of CCR7, a lymphocyte homing chemokine receptor, in IBC cel...
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Holy shit we might have a cure for sickle cell anemia
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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
lots of jarring statistics and heartbreaking stories I could share from this story, but this particular anecdote made me tear up when @jonathanwosen.bsky.social first shared this story with me For more details from our survey of ~1000 nih-funded researchers, read the report below
screenshot of story reading, "It wasn’t enough to save her three-person team. Sweetwyne still let go of a laboratory technician, and another left on their own. She’s had to return to the bench to help the one remaining staffer with experiments. Sweetwyne expects she’ll have to shut down the lab by the end of this year. And as a non-tenure-track researcher with 95% of her salary coming from grants, Sweetwyne said she’s at risk of losing her position at UW altogether. 

While she tries not to bring her worries home, her 6-year-old daughter has noticed. Each morning, she hands Sweetwyne a pair of coins and asks, “Is this going to be enough?” Sweetwyne always says yes, and, at the end of each day, hides the pennies and quarters around her house for the child to find again so that she doesn’t run out of change."
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Fumiko Ladd Chino, MD FASCO @fumikochino.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
What does it mean to co-design cancer care 💰🏥 interventions? Who should be involved and how does it work? Excited to speak today at #APOS2026 as part of this all star panel of #financialToxicity experts. Starting 10:15am today Studio 8-9 (2nd Floor) 🙌 Dr @bthomphd.bsky.social
A symposium synopsis 
*Money Matters: Co-Creating Financial Interventions with Patients, Families, Clinicians, and Communities to Increase Reach
Submission Type Symposia
Topic
Research
Submitter
Bridgette Thom
Affiliation
University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill
Participant(s)
Donald Rosenstein (Co-Chair), Bridgette Thom (Chair), Lauren Ghazal
(Speaker), John Salsman (Speaker), Echo Warner (Speaker), Austin Waters (Speaker), Stephanie
Wheeler (Speaker), Fumiko Chino (Discussant)
SUBMISSION DETAILS
Primary Category Social/Practical Problems (resources, financial, insurance, support)
Abstract Population Pediatric/AYA, Adult, Geriatric/Aging Adults, Across a Lifespan, Minority and Underserved
Overall Symposia Description Cancer-related financial toxicity (FT) can yield negative psychosocial, material, and behavioral impacts on patients and their caregivers. Previous research has produced a robust body of evidence on FT risk factors and consequences. More recently, work has shifted toward prevention and mitigation of FT. Efforts to reduce FT must be informed by the voices of those most impacted-patients and caregivers-and incorporate the perspectives of those clinicians tasked with intervention delivery. In this symposium, we will describe five research studies designed to co-create FT interventions with patients, families, clinicians, and communities.
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