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Kelly Shanahan

@stage4kelly.bsky.social
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Former ob/gyn. Current metastatic breast cancer patient/advocate. Grant reviewer. Conference goer. METAvivor board of directors. #NotDeadYet since 2013 she/her. #bcsm #oncsky #cansky Also: #Swiftie #SwiftieOver60

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METAvivor @metavivor.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
#GivingTuesday is almost here. Our Board Members have pledged $7,450 to inspire others to give. Join them and make your #GivingTuesday donation today. Your contribution helps fund the research that brings us closer to making MBC a chronic disease rather than a fatal one. metavivor.org/givingtuesday
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Kelly Shanahan @stage4kelly.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
As a physician-patient with metastatic cancer (breast, not lung), thank you for sharing. May research and modern medicine keep you, as I put it, #NotDeadYet for years and years to come.
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Martha Carlson @marthacarlson.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Side effects like pneumonitis, fatigue, diarrhea plague cancer tx. Patient Centered Dosing Initiative (therightdose.org) blew the door off this topic and @fda.gov + @ascocancer.bsky.social are out with further guidelines that make sense w/new classes of drugs #cansky www.raps.org/news-and-art...
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FDA, ASCO propose principles for proper dosing in cancer drug development
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) have laid out several principles for cancer drug developers to ensure more nuanced dosing. The principles are intended to help sponsors develop drugs that are better tolerated by patients who otherwise might suffer from long-term exposure and toxicity.
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Kelly Shanahan @stage4kelly.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Thank you for the opportunity to share about this important meeting and organization!
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Kelly Shanahan @stage4kelly.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Yup, it happens, a lot, in the metastatic breast cancer space
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Kelly Shanahan @stage4kelly.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
What a beautiful dog!
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Kelly Shanahan @stage4kelly.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
When researchers and patient advocates work together we are #StrongerTogether #SmarterTogether
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Kelly Shanahan @stage4kelly.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Fantastic to see work focusing on #MaleBreastCancer l! #bcsm
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Kelly Shanahan @stage4kelly.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
I’m sorry to hear about your mom, but it sounds like she had a great life. I know that I’m here twice as long as statistics which suggest because of research too. #ThanksNIH
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Our MBC Life @ourmbclife.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Ever heard of #StageIVStampede? Its 2 days of #MBCAdvocacy, legislative training & education presented by @metavivor.bsky.social in Washington, D.C. @stage4kelly.bsky.social discusses how the MBC community unites for change. 🎧 Listen (all channels) or 🔗 buff.ly/HIA9xIT #trailblazers #BCSM #CanSky
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Kelly Shanahan @stage4kelly.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Happy birthday!!
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Kelly Shanahan @stage4kelly.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
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Kelly Shanahan @stage4kelly.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
As a person #NotDeadYet with metastatic breast cancer this is incredibly disheartening.
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Kelly Shanahan @stage4kelly.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
non-Governmental research funding is becoming more important every day. @metavivor.bsky.social received almost double the usual number of letters of intent last week. We need our supporters to be generous this year so we can fund promising research!
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Kelly Shanahan @stage4kelly.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I haven’t but I’ll take a look
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Kelly Shanahan @stage4kelly.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I’ve had ☢️ ⚡️ before, to my 🦴. Piece of 🍰. Just finished 5 days of SBRT to my liver. “It’ll be 🍰” I thought. My liver: 😈 😆 Me: 🤢 🥱 😕 #MetastaticBreastCancer #SideEffucks #bcsm #NotDeadYet
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Kelly Shanahan @stage4kelly.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
And wear a 😷
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Kelly Shanahan @stage4kelly.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Almost 50% of people will get cancer and virtually every drug on the market today went through the NIH at some point.
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Kelly Shanahan @stage4kelly.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
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Kelly Shanahan @stage4kelly.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Thank you Paula! I’ll have to find the link to the interview I did with you about the research that we funded.
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Kelly Shanahan @stage4kelly.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Thrilled to be on the @metavivor.bsky.social board of directors and share this announcement of our 2024 research awards on #WorldCancerDay!! The 2025 cycle opens this week (2/5 - translational, 2/6 - early career, 2/7 - quality of life). Check out www.metavivor.org/research/gra... for details
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Grant Programs - Metastatic Breast Cancer Research Grants | METAvivor
Learn about grant programs for METAvivor, a group dedicated to curing stage 4 breast cancer.
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Kelly Shanahan @stage4kelly.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Even with @metavivor.bsky.social’s new 90/10 split of donations they’ll still be putting a higher percent into research and programs than any other cancer nonprofit I could find
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Kelly Shanahan @stage4kelly.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Thanks - I’ve been on west coast weekend nights before but this is the first time I saw that message - gotta do maintenance sometime though
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Kelly Shanahan @stage4kelly.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Thank you - being mentioned with these brilliant women is an honor
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Kelly Shanahan @stage4kelly.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Well this is f-ing concerning
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Kelly Shanahan @stage4kelly.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Since our government will no longer recognize it, let me wish everyone happy Black History Month, and remind you that Black history is American history. We are a better nation because of diversity.
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Kelly Shanahan @stage4kelly.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I have spent so much time on my phone today, posting and answering emails, that when I just sat down to take a break with a physical book I tried to swipe up to turn the page 😂
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Kelly Shanahan @stage4kelly.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Hey #oncsky #bcsm friends: METAvivor is here!! @metavivor.bsky.social
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Dr Liz O’Riordan @lizoriordan.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
OMG! My book is out in the world!
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Kelly Shanahan @stage4kelly.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Congratulations Liz!!
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵
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Marquisha Johns @marquishajohns.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
It’s been a week since Trump’s pause on HHS communications and, despite some clarifications, new NIH research funding is still at a standstill. With the freeze on external communications expected to last until Feb. 1, how might this impact funding? 🧵 ⬇️
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Kelly Shanahan @stage4kelly.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
This 👇🏻
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Kelly Shanahan @stage4kelly.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Us people with cancer are feeling pretty darn sick about this too
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Kelly Shanahan @stage4kelly.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
It was so fun to talk all things #FinancialToxicity with Drs @fumikochino.bsky.social and @ryannipp.bsky.social on @ascocancer.bsky.social’s podcast- just wish it could have been in person!
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Kelly Shanahan @stage4kelly.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
I’m going to walk the dogs, read @jodipicoult.bsky.social, do some work, feel gratitude for Dr Martin Luther King, Jr, then watch @britishbakeoff.bsky.social. No news channels, no social media. Will probably have to drink some wine. Taylor Swift on loop. Maybe I’ll watch The Eras Tour again.
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Kelly Shanahan @stage4kelly.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
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Tumor Board Tuesday @tumorboardtuesday.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
#TumorBoardTuesday We have not heard any updates from #SABCS24 yet! 📢So join us Tuesday, 01-14-25 at 8PM ET here & on Twitter as ‪@dr-rshatsky.bsky.social‬ & @zoezhang.bsky.social🗣️SERDS & novel Tx for HR+ #breastcancer RT and bring others into the discussion‼️
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Kelly Shanahan @stage4kelly.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Thank you @ascocancer.bsky.social for devoting an entire issue of JCO OP to the topic of #FinancialToxicity and thank you to @fumikochino.bsky.social @ryannipp.bsky.social for inviting me to 🖊️ a piece for this, on my experience with financial toxicity as someone with privilege and savings.
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Kelly Shanahan @stage4kelly.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
It’s on my calendar!
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Kelly Shanahan @stage4kelly.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
His posts remind me there are still decent humans around
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Kelly Shanahan @stage4kelly.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Thanks - adding these to my tbr
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Kelly Shanahan @stage4kelly.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Let’s try this whole “word for the year” thing. Between cancer/cancer advocacy stuff and the incoming administration, I think this one will serve me well.
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Kelly Shanahan @stage4kelly.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
And even more, he was a good human being.
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Kelly Shanahan @stage4kelly.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Are you living with metastatic breast cancer? Are you interested in liquid biopsy? Join us tomorrow for what is certain to be a lively discussion of two posters presented at SABCS24! graspcancer.org/events/sabcs...
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Group 5G: Metastatic Breast Cancer; ER+; Liquid Biopsy; Biomarkers - Grasp Cancer
Poster #P3-10-10: Sequencing PIK3CA and AKT Inhibitors in Hormone  Receptor-Positive, HER2-Negative Metastatic Breast Cancer: A  Retrospective Analysis Poster #P1-05-19: Circulating Tumor DNA as a Pro...
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Kelly Shanahan @stage4kelly.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Can’t wait to hear it!
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Kelly Shanahan @stage4kelly.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Welcome to where the sky is blue @ascocancer.bsky.social
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Kelly Shanahan @stage4kelly.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
I can attest to the fact that crofelemer works!!
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Kelly Shanahan @stage4kelly.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Because YOU are the best!! ❤️ #SABCS24
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Kelly Shanahan @stage4kelly.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Love, love, LOVE how #advocate extraordinaire @coffeemommy.bsky.social of @advocatecollab.bsky.social reminds the moderator, the panel, and the audience that #WordsMatter - “deescalation” sounds like “you don’t matter, we’ll do less” so preferred terminology is “right-sizing”. #SABCS24
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