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North Carolina's only public comprehensive cancer center, serving patients at the N.C. Basnight Cancer Hospital. Today's best care. Tomorrow's best hope. unclineberger.org

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The Cancer Letter @cancerletter.com · 19/09/2025
NCI is “really, really sturdy” and won’t break, former directors Ned Sharpless and Kim Rathmell say at @unclineberger.bsky.social symposium cancerletter.com/the-cancer-letter/…
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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center @unclineberger.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
We’re halfway through Day 1 of the UNC Lineberger Scientific Symposium, and what an inspiring morning it’s been! From powerful insights on cancer care, prevention, and biology—our speakers are delivering. Onsite registration is open, or join us virtually anytime: unclineberger.org/symposium/
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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center @unclineberger.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Big thank you to Cristy Page, MD, MPH, Interim CEO and Dean, UNC Health and UNC School of Medicine, for stopping by the UNC Lineberger scientific symposium to speak to the scientists, clinicians, and advocates in attendance. unclineberger.org/symposium/
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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center @unclineberger.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
UNC Lineberger's executive director Robert Ferris, MD, PhD, kicks off the 48th annual scientific symposium in Chapel Hill. Scientists, clinicians, and advocates from across the cancer research spectrum are here to celebrate five decades of innovation, collaboration, and impact.
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ewsomm.bsky.social @ewsomm.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Kicking off 50 years of @unclineberger.bsky.social with @robertferrismdphd.bsky.social & the 48th Annual Scientific Symposium… looking forward to hearing the amazing reflections on #50years of #cancerresearch!
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ewsomm.bsky.social @ewsomm.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
We love Shelley Earp, MD! 🩵 @unclineberger.bsky.social
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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center @unclineberger.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Thrilled to catch Yue Xiong, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer, Cullgen Inc., at the 48th Annual UNC Lineberger Scientific Symposium. He’ll be presenting “Targeted Protein Degradation for Drug Discovery" Register free now, in-person or via livestream! 👉 unclineberger.org/symposium/registration/
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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center @unclineberger.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Excited for the UNC Lineberger Scientific Symposium! Session: Julian Downward, PhD, at the Francis Crick Institute on “Targeting the nexus of RAS oncogenic signaling and tumour immune evasion.” Free to attend: unclineberger.org/symposium/re...
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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center @unclineberger.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Don’t miss this session at the UNC Lineberger Scientific Symposium! Join us on Wednesday, Sept. 10 for a presentation by Elaine Mardis, PhD, Co-Executive Director of the Institute for Genomic Medicine at Nationwide Children's Hospital & Professor of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University.
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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center @unclineberger.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Don’t miss Edison Liu, MD of @jacksonlab.bsky.social at the 48th Annual UNC Lineberger Scientific Symposium! His presentation: “Genomic biology of triple negative breast cancer: from treatment to prevention” 📅 Sept. 9–10 | Chapel Hill + Virtual 🔗 unclineberger.org/symposium/re...
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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center @unclineberger.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Don’t miss Melissa B. Davis, PhD of the Morehouse School of Medicine at the 48th Annual UNC Lineberger Scientific Symposium! Her presentation: “The Grand Challenge of Inequities: From the DARC side to SAMBAI." 📅 Sept. 9–10 | Chapel Hill + Virtual 🔗 unclineberger.org/symposium/re...
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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center @unclineberger.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
On Tuesday, Sept. 9, at the UNC Lineberger Scientific Symposium, Lewis Cantley, PhD, renowned Professor of Cell Biology at @harvardmed.bsky.social and a pioneer in kinase research, will deliver a groundbreaking presentation. Register today! unclineberger.org/symposium/re...
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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center @unclineberger.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Join us on Tuesday, Sept. 9 at the UNC Lineberger Scientific Symposium, as Tony Hunter, PhD, Professor and Renato Dulbecco Chair in Cancer Research, presents: “What we have learned from 45 years of studying tyrosine phosphorylation and how it has impacted cancer therapy.”
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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center @unclineberger.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
On Tuesday, Sept. 9 at the UNC Lineberger Scientific Symposium, Arlene Sharpe, MD, PhD, Chair of Immunology at @harvardmed.bsky.social, will present: “Multifaceted functions of the PD-1 pathway.” Register here: unclineberger.org/symposium/re...
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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center @unclineberger.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Don’t miss this session at the UNC Lineberger Scientific Symposium! On Tues., Sept. 9, join Stephanie Wheeler, PhD, MPH, for her presentation: “Community, collaboration, cooperation, creativity: foundations for improving cancer care and outcomes in North Carolina.” unclineberger.org/symposium/re...
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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center @unclineberger.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Join us on Tuesday, Sept. 9, for a must-see talk by Kevan Shokat, PhD, Professor of Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology at UC San Francisco: “Overcoming the undruggable nature of the common human oncogene K-Ras." unclineberger.org/symposium/re...
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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center @unclineberger.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Join us on Tuesday, Sept. 9 at the UNC Lineberger Scientific Symposium, as W. Kimryn Rathmell, CEO of Ohio State’s James Cancer Hospital & Solove Research Institute, delivers a must-see talk. unclineberger.org/symposium/re...
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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center @unclineberger.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Don’t miss this session at the 48th annual UNC Lineberger Scientific Symposium! Tuesday, Sept. 9, UNC Lineberger's Kurt M. Ribisl, PhD, will present: “Advancing the promise of cancer prevention through interdisciplinary science.” Register here: unclineberger.org/symposium/re...
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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center @unclineberger.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Join us Sept 9–10 for the 48th UNC Lineberger Scientific Symposium! Don’t miss William Kaelin, MD, PhD, of @danafarber.bsky.social, discussing “The VHL tumor suppressor gene: insights into oxygen sensing, cancer, and drugging the undruggable." unclineberger.org/symposium/re...
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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center @unclineberger.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Mark your calendars! On Day 2 of the UNC Lineberger Scientific Symposium (Wed., Sept. 10), join Kwok-Kin Wong, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine at NYU Langone Health, as he delivers his talk “Lung squamous cell carcinoma and novel therapeutic strategies.” unclineberger.org/symposium/re...
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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center @unclineberger.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Join us Sept 9–10 for the 48th UNC Lineberger Scientific Symposium! Don’t miss MelissaTroester, PhD delving into “Improving breast cancer outcomes with multimodal data.” A must-see for anyone passionate about data-driven solutions in oncology. unclineberger.org/symposium/re...
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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center @unclineberger.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
July is Sarcoma Awareness Month “These are really rare cancers that come from bone and soft tissue,” says UNC Lineberger's Jake Stein, MD, MPH. Discover how recent advances in targeted therapies, immunotherapy, and radiation techniques are enhancing patient outcomes.
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Stein discusses latest advances in sarcoma treatment, research - UNC Lineberger
July is Sarcoma Awareness Month. Jake Stein, MD, MPH, shares that recent advances in targeted therapies, immunotherapy and radiation techniques are improving outcomes for patients diagnosed with this ...
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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center @unclineberger.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
UNC Lineberger’s Comprehensive Cancer Support Program offers online yoga and meditation resources for cancer patients, caregivers and survivors.
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On-demand yoga library available for patients and caregivers - UNC Lineberger
UNC Lineberger’s Comprehensive Cancer Support Program offers online yoga and meditation resources for cancer patients, caregivers and survivors.
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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center @unclineberger.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Today at #ASCO25, Paola Zagami, MD, will present at the oral abstract session on the impact of ovarian function suppression with adjuvant endocrine therapy on survival outcomes in young germline BRCA mutation carriers with breast cancer: Secondary analysis of an international cohort study.
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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center @unclineberger.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Today at #ASCO25, Jared Weiss, MD, will present at the poster session: (Poster 445) Versatile-002: Overall survival of HPV16-positive recurrent/metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma patients treated with T cell stimulating immunotherapy PDS0101 and pembrolizumab.
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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center @unclineberger.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
At #ASCO25 this morning, Tracy Rose, MD, MPH, will present at the poster session: (Poster 403) Pathologic response and safety of neoadjuvant pembrolizumab with or without entinostat in muscle-invasive urothelial cancer (MIUC). ⌚️: 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. CT 📍: Hall A
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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center @unclineberger.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
At #ASCO25 this morning, Yara Abdou, MD, MSCR, will present at the poster session: (Poster 120) Real-world analysis of characteristics and risk of recurrence in Black patients (pts) with HR+/HER2− early breast cancer eligible for NATALEE. ⌚️: 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. CT 📍: Hall A
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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center @unclineberger.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Today at #ASCO25, Catherine Fahey, MD, PhD will provide the medical oncologist perspective at the Genitourinary Cancer — Kidney and Bladder case-based panel. ⌚️: 8 - 9 a.m. CT 📍: Hall B1
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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center @unclineberger.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
At #ASCO25, Kyle Lavin, MD, MPH, & Junlone Moy, PharmD, RPh, (w/Amber Cipriani, PharmD, BCOP) presented, respectively, on enhancing patient QOL and mental health through collab care and bringing acad precision oncology to community settings @ASCO Care Delivery & Quality Care session. @UNCPharmacy
Kyle Lavin, MD, MPH, standing in front of research poster.Junlone Moy, PharmD, RPh, and Amber Cipriani, PharmD, BCOP, standing in front of research poster.
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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center @unclineberger.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
This afternoon at #ASCO25, Daniel Richardson, MD, MSc, MA, will present at the rapid oral abstract session: Treatment preferences between survival and quality of life and their association with clinical outcomes in older adults with advanced cancer. ⌚️: 5:06 p.m. - 5:12 p.m. CT 📍: S402
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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center @unclineberger.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
@ethanbasch.bsky.social and Daniel Richardson presented research findings on patient-reported outcomes and a decision support tool for older patients, respectively, during the @ASCO Care Delivery and Quality Care poster session. #ASCO25.
Ethan Basch, MD, MSc, FASCO standing in front of his research poster.Daniel Richardson, MD, standing in front of his research poster.
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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center @unclineberger.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
At #ASCO25 this morning, Junlone Moy, PharmD, RPh, will present at the poster session: (Poster 284) Implementation of an academic precision oncology service in a community setting. ⌚️: 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. CT 📍: Hall A
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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center @unclineberger.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Today at #ASCO25, Kyle Lavin, MD, MPH, will present at the poster session: (Poster 277) Integrating collaborative care in oncology: Improving quality of life and mental health for patients with cancer. ⌚️: 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. CT 📍: Hall A
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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center @unclineberger.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Big congratulations to Lisa Carey, MD, ScM, for being honored by @OncLive as a Giant of Cancer Care for her significant contributions that have advanced how we understand and treat breast cancer. #GiantsCC25 @onclive.bsky.social #ASCO25 #bcsm
Yelena Janjigian standing with Lisa Carey at the Giants of Cancer Care awards ceremony.
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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center @unclineberger.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
At #ASCO25, Ethan Basch, MD, MSc, FASCO, will present during the poster session: (Poster 477) OncoPRO: A US national initiative supporting implementation of remote symptom monitoring with electronic patient-reported outcomes (ePROs) in oncology practices. ⌚️: 1:30 - 4:30 p.m. CT 📍: Hall A
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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center @unclineberger.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
At #ASCO25 this afternoon, Daniel Richardson, MD, MSc, MA, will present during the poster session: (Poster 433) Preliminary efficacy of VOICE, a decision support tool for older adults with advanced cancer: A pilot randomized trial. ⌚️: 1:30 - 4:30 p.m. CT 📍: Hall A unclineberger.org/news/unc-fac...
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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center @unclineberger.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Today at #ASCO25, Nicole E. Caston, PhD, MPH, will present during the poster session: (Poster 417) Association between cost and insurance on receipt of guideline-concordant mammography. ⌚️: 1:30 - 4:30 p.m. CT 📍: Hall A unclineberger.org/news/unc-fac...
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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center @unclineberger.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
At #ASCO25 this afternoon, UNC Lineberger's Yara Abdou, MD, MSCR, will co-chair the rapid oral abstract session on breast cancer from 2:45 - 4:15 p.m. CT in Hall D2. unclineberger.org/news/unc-fac...
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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center @unclineberger.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Today at #ASCO25, UNC Lineberger's Mya Roberson, PhD, MSPH, is a panelist at the oral abstract session on Care Delivery and Quality Care: Too Many Rules, Too Many Traps: Can Policy Help Close the Gaps? This session is 1 - 4 p.m. CT in S504. unclineberger.org/news/unc-fac...
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Chemtai Mungo, MD, MPH @chemtaimungo.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Off to #Chicago to receive a #CareerDevelopmentAward from @ascocancer.bsky.social! Thank you for supporting my lab’s work towards #cervicalcancer elimination for all! #equity #EveryWomanMatters @uncobgyn.bsky.social @unclineberger.bsky.social
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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center @unclineberger.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Faculty and trainees from UNC Lineberger and UNC will share their latest research findings and clinical insights during talks, poster presentations and panels during the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s annual meeting in Chicago this weekend. #ASCO25 unclineberger.org/news/unc-fac...
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UNC faculty and trainees to present at the world’s largest clinical cancer research meeting - UNC Lineberger
UNC faculty and trainees will share their latest research findings and clinical insights during talks, poster presentations and panel discussions during the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s ann...
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Yara Abdou @yabdoumd.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Today I graduate with my Master’s in Clinical Research. Grateful for the journey, the mentors who lifted me, the family who stood beside me, and the purpose that keeps me moving forward: advancing science that serves everyone #Onward @unclineberger.bsky.social @uncpublichealth.bsky.social
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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center @unclineberger.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
UNC Lineberger researchers and colleagues have discovered an important overlap in genes regulated by the activity of three proteins that support the growth of pancreatic cancer. #UnitedByCancerResearch #NCRM25 unclineberger.org/news/new-dru...
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New drug combinations found to potentially be more effective in targeting pancreatic cancers - UNC Lineberger
UNC Lineberger researchers and colleagues have discovered an important overlap in genes regulated by the activity of three proteins that support the growth of pancreatic cancer.
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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center @unclineberger.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Coming up today at #AACR25, Humeyra Kaanoglu will present at the poster session: (Poster 16) Repurposing the DNA labeling agent EdU for glioblastoma treatment. ⌚️: 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. 📍: South Hall A
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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center @unclineberger.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Lynne Wagner, PhD, will be speaking during the #AACR25 forum: Unlocking the Power of PROs to Assess Tolerability in Cancer Clinical Trials. ⌚️: 5:32 – 5:52 p.m. CT 📍: Room S401
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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center @unclineberger.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Today at #AACR25, Pengda Liu, PhD will present during the poster session: (Poster 10) Innate immunity-independent roles of 2'3'-cGAMP in tumor metastasis control ⌚️: 2 – 5 p.m. CT 📍: South Hall A
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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center @unclineberger.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
At #AACR25 this afternoon, Madison Jenner will present during the poster session: (Poster 24) Patient-derived cell line and organoid drug screening identifies synergistic PLK1 inhibitor in combination with senolytic ABT-263 for pancreatic cancer. @UNCPancreas ⌚️: 2 – 5 p.m. CT 📍: South Hall A
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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center @unclineberger.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Today at #AACR25, Dalia Fleifel will present during the poster session: (Poster 3) Unraveling c-MYC role in DNA replication origin licensing through non-canonical pathways ⌚️: 2 – 5 p.m. CT 📍: South Hall A
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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center @unclineberger.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
At #AACR25 today, Natasha Burse, DrPH, MS, will present during the poster session: (Poster 9) Associations between adherence to ACS physical activity guidelines and long-term quality of life among breast cancer survivors in the black women’s health study ⌚️: 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. 📍: South Hall A
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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center @unclineberger.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
At #AACR25 this morning, Brandon L. Mouery, PhD will present during the poster session: LB288 / 11 - Determination of the MYC- and TEAD-dependent transcriptome in pancreatic ⌚️: 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. 📍: South Hall A
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