Ben Westphalen (@benwestphalen) 's Twitter Profile
Ben Westphalen

@benwestphalen

Oncologist focused on #PrecisionOncology 🎯 & #PancreaticCancer 💜 •@myesmo POTF chair • #MissionCancer Board🇪🇺•Rolling with @OncoAlert 🚨 •Views are my own•

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Vivek Subbiah, MD (@viveksubbiah) 's Twitter Profile Photo

💥🚨 A tweetorial/ X'torial on the paper published today "Tissue-agnostic cancer therapies: promise, reality, and the path forward" Nature Communications Nature Portfolio 👉The Future of Cancer Treatment is Here: Tissue-Agnostic Therapies OncoAlert ASCO #ASCO25 A Thread 🧵 1/15

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Kicking off ASCO #ASCO25 with a molecular tumor board session meeting incredible international #PrecisionMedicine super stars ⭐️ Eric K. Singhi, MD Ryan Ngyuen Max Christopeit #PrecisionMedicine OncoAlert 🚨

Kicking off <a href="/ASCO/">ASCO</a> #ASCO25 with a molecular tumor board session meeting incredible international #PrecisionMedicine super stars ⭐️ 

<a href="/lungoncdoc/">Eric K. Singhi, MD</a> Ryan Ngyuen Max Christopeit 
 #PrecisionMedicine <a href="/OncoAlert/">OncoAlert</a> 🚨
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Welcome to #ASCO25 ! On behalf of the🚨OncoAlert Network—hello from Chicago! 🌆 🔗 Sign up the Newsletter: oncoalert.m-pages.com/nhMpwe/oncoale… WE ARE ALL OncoAlert 🚨 For 7 years, we've brought you real-time updates from the biggest oncology congresses. This year, we’re back with: 🔹

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The OncoAlert🚨DAILY Newsletter at #ASCO25, REGISTER HERE 👉 OncoAlert360.com OR buff.ly/p0O1gZ8 OUT TOMORROW MORNING!!! The OncoAlert Network will be delivering a daily newsletter to oncologists worldwide during ASCO 2025 — featuring our top trial picks from

Grainne O'Kane (@graokane) 's Twitter Profile Photo

TEDOPAM - maintenance randomised phase 2 vaccine trial #PDAC Induction mFFX- Folfiri vs Folfiri+ OSE2101 (TAAs) ➡️106 pts ➡️met primary endpoint of 12mth OS>50%; ➡️But control arm mOS 17 vs vaccine arm 15mths ➡️highlights benefit maintenance approaches ASCO OncoAlert #ASCO25

TEDOPAM - maintenance randomised phase 2 vaccine trial #PDAC 
Induction mFFX- Folfiri vs Folfiri+ OSE2101 (TAAs)
➡️106 pts 
➡️met primary endpoint of 12mth OS&gt;50%; 
➡️But control arm mOS 17 vs vaccine arm 15mths
➡️highlights benefit maintenance approaches <a href="/ASCO/">ASCO</a> <a href="/OncoAlert/">OncoAlert</a> #ASCO25
Grainne O'Kane (@graokane) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🔥NeoPancOne🇨🇦 ➡️mFFX in resectable PDAC ➡️exploring GATA6&subtypes ➡️mEFS &OS 16.3 &34.2mths ➡️1yr EFS 90% in GATA6 hi vs 50% lo ➡️1yr OS classical 95% vs.57% basal-like ⭐️Time to subtype upfront in all PDAC recognising plasticity OncoAlert #ASCO25 Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) Princess Margaret Cancer Centre

🔥NeoPancOne🇨🇦
➡️mFFX in resectable PDAC 
➡️exploring GATA6&amp;subtypes 
➡️mEFS &amp;OS 16.3 &amp;34.2mths
➡️1yr EFS 90% in GATA6 hi vs 50% lo
➡️1yr OS classical 95% vs.57% basal-like
⭐️Time to subtype upfront in all PDAC recognising plasticity <a href="/OncoAlert/">OncoAlert</a> #ASCO25 <a href="/OICR_news/">Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR)</a> <a href="/pmcancercentre/">Princess Margaret Cancer Centre</a>
OncoAlert (@oncoalert) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Dear Colleagues at #ASCO25 As ALWAYS, it is a pleasure for OncoAlert 🚨 to be around to capture yet another GREAT Uromigos discussion by Tom Powles 🇬🇧& Brian Rini, MD 🇺🇸 Here they are lakeside discussing Final Results of IO-Based Combination in mRCC Ping OncoAlert GU Faculty

Ben Westphalen (@benwestphalen) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It’s been an absolute pleasure to be part of this ASCO ESMO - Eur. Oncology session during #ASCO25 - in order to deliver the best care to our #patients we need equitable, scalable and sustainable solutions based on solid evidence. #PrecisionMedicine OncoAlert 🚨

ESMO - Eur. Oncology (@myesmo) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Newly-released ESMO recommendations critically assess specific germline pathogenic variants in terms of cancer-related mortality and testing implications for patients and their families Read the full article in the #ESMODailyReporter 🔗 ow.ly/xpGT50W9PuY

Newly-released ESMO recommendations critically assess specific germline pathogenic variants in terms of cancer-related mortality and testing implications for patients and their families 

Read the full article in the #ESMODailyReporter

🔗 ow.ly/xpGT50W9PuY
Angela Lamarca (@drangelalamarca) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Great overview of #PrecisionMedicine in #PDAC by Eileen M O’Reilly at ESMO - Eur. Oncology #ESMOGI25 If you missed it, please watch it 📺 🧬NGS important, with RNA for fusions 🫶KRAS 🤞🏻MTAP 👀Claudin 18.2 🤝Molecular Tumor Board-ESMO recomendations available #ESMOAmbassadors Ben Westphalen

Great overview of #PrecisionMedicine in #PDAC by <a href="/EileenMOReilly/">Eileen M O’Reilly</a> at <a href="/myESMO/">ESMO - Eur. Oncology</a> #ESMOGI25

If you missed it, please watch it 📺

🧬NGS important, with RNA for fusions
🫶KRAS
🤞🏻MTAP
👀Claudin 18.2
🤝Molecular Tumor Board-ESMO recomendations available 

#ESMOAmbassadors <a href="/BenWestphalen/">Ben Westphalen</a>
Evelyn Wong (@evelynwongyt) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Ben Westphalen delivered compelling insights into diving deep into the #BRAF pathway in colorectal cancer. #ESMOGI25 By spotlighting targeted 👉🏻 approaches, he underscored how ❗️pathway-focused research opens the door to more precise, high-impact treatments!! ESMO - Eur. Oncology

<a href="/BenWestphalen/">Ben Westphalen</a> delivered compelling insights into diving deep into the #BRAF pathway in colorectal cancer. #ESMOGI25 By spotlighting targeted 👉🏻 approaches, he underscored how ❗️pathway-focused research opens the door to more precise, high-impact treatments!! <a href="/myESMO/">ESMO - Eur. Oncology</a>
Vivek Subbiah, MD (@viveksubbiah) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨Happy 4th everyone! Delighted to share with the🌎our comment just published in Lancet Oncology The Lancet Oncology The Lancet on “Bridging Classification & Treatment” 👉🏼 🧬 Tumor biology > tumor location. It’s time we evolve WHO cancer classification to match how we treat it: by

🚨Happy 4th everyone! Delighted to share with the🌎our comment just published in Lancet Oncology <a href="/TheLancetOncol/">The Lancet Oncology</a> <a href="/TheLancet/">The Lancet</a> on “Bridging Classification &amp; Treatment” 👉🏼
🧬 Tumor biology &gt; tumor location. It’s time we evolve WHO cancer classification to match how we treat it: by
Angela Lamarca (@drangelalamarca) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The relevance of a WIDE molecular profiling in #PDAC and #BiliaryMalignancies Our data from Fundación Jiménez Díaz presented at ESMO - Eur. Oncology #ESMOGI25 👉Targets in PDAC are identified when wide pannels are used-regardless of KRAS 🧬MTAP loss present both in PDAC and BTC #ESMOAmbassadors

The relevance of a WIDE molecular profiling in #PDAC and #BiliaryMalignancies

Our data from <a href="/Hospital_FJD/">Fundación Jiménez Díaz</a> presented at <a href="/myESMO/">ESMO - Eur. Oncology</a> #ESMOGI25

👉Targets in PDAC are identified when wide pannels are used-regardless of KRAS
🧬MTAP loss present both in PDAC and BTC

#ESMOAmbassadors
ESMO - Eur. Oncology (@myesmo) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🔬 Discover the ELCAP framework—a 3-tier guide to using Large Language Models #LLMs in clinical practice. 👉 Register now with your free ESMO account: 🔗 ow.ly/fY1m50WnyGJ

🔬 Discover the ELCAP framework—a 3-tier guide to using Large Language Models #LLMs in clinical practice. 
👉 Register now with your free ESMO account:

🔗  ow.ly/fY1m50WnyGJ
Mike Thompson, MD, PhD, FASCO (@mtmdphd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Genomic context of NTRK1/2/3 fusion-positive tumours from a large real-world population [Jul 20, 2021] Ben Westphalen et al. npj Journals Precision Oncology ow.ly/jDyt50FDVB0 #PrecisionMedicine #RWD #openaccess FoundationCORE® database of >295,000 cancer patients

Genomic context of NTRK1/2/3 fusion-positive tumours from a large real-world population [Jul 20, 2021] <a href="/BenWestphalen/">Ben Westphalen</a> et al. <a href="/Nature_NPJ/">npj Journals</a> Precision Oncology ow.ly/jDyt50FDVB0 #PrecisionMedicine #RWD #openaccess FoundationCORE® database of &gt;295,000 cancer patients