Prajnan Das, MD, MS, MPH (@prajnandasmd) 's Twitter Profile
Prajnan Das, MD, MS, MPH

@prajnandasmd

Chair ad interim - GI Radiation Oncology, Deputy Division Head - Education. Tweets are my own

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Diane Bodurka (@dianebodurka) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Congratulations to all who were honored at the MD Anderson Cancer Center Educator Recognition Reception including Faculty and Staff Educators of the Year, Chelsea C Pinnix MD PhD and Xiaojun Liu, Ph.D. Extremely grateful for your unwavering support and dedication to our education mission area.

Congratulations to all who were honored at the <a href="/MDAndersonNews/">MD Anderson Cancer Center</a> Educator Recognition Reception including Faculty and Staff Educators of the Year, <a href="/ChelseaPinnix/">Chelsea C Pinnix MD PhD</a> and Xiaojun Liu, Ph.D. Extremely grateful for your unwavering support and dedication to our education mission area.
Albert Koong, MD PhD (@ackoongmdphd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Invigorated by the great ideas coming out of our #radonc ⁦MD Anderson Cancer Center⁩ retreat. Looking forward to the impact of these collaborations on advancing patient care. #endcancer

Invigorated by the great ideas coming out of our #radonc ⁦<a href="/MDAndersonNews/">MD Anderson Cancer Center</a>⁩ retreat. Looking forward to the impact of these collaborations on advancing patient care. #endcancer
IJROBP - The Red Journal (@ijrobp) 's Twitter Profile Photo

RACE-GB, the first ever phase 3 randomized study showing overall survival improvement from chemotherapy combined with #radiation for gallbladder cancer. Accompanying podcast for context. Podcast: redjournal.org/audio-do/red-j… Article: redjournal.org/article/S0360-…

Anirban Maitra (@aiims1742) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Congratulations to Vince Bernard-Pagan, MD PHD MD Anderson Cancer Center (incoming RadOnc faculty & #PancreaticCancer researcher) for being awarded the AACR Lustgarten Foundation Career Development Award in honor of Congressman John Lewis. Way to go Vince! #AACR25

Congratulations to <a href="/Vince_BernPag/">Vince Bernard-Pagan, MD PHD</a> <a href="/MDAndersonNews/">MD Anderson Cancer Center</a> (incoming RadOnc faculty &amp; #PancreaticCancer researcher) for being awarded the <a href="/AACR/">AACR</a> <a href="/lustgartenfdn/">Lustgarten Foundation</a> Career Development Award in honor of Congressman John Lewis. Way to go Vince! #AACR25
Prajnan Das, MD, MS, MPH (@prajnandasmd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Huge congrats to David Sebag (he/him) 🇺🇦💙 & team! PLATO ACT 4 - randomized data supporting use of reduced dose RT for early stage anal cancer. The recently completed DECREASE trial will provide more data on this. In the meantime, very reasonable to start adopting reduced dose RT as SOC

Prajnan Das, MD, MS, MPH (@prajnandasmd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Exciting to see data from STAR-TREC - higher rates of organ preservation with long course chemoRT vs short course RT for rectal cancer

Denise De la Cruz, Ed.D. (@yogagirldd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

8th Annual MD Anderson Cancer Center ☢️ #Pediatric #RadOnc course in the books! ✨🙌🏼 Thank you, Drs. Gohar Manzar, Susan McGovern, Suzanne Wolden, Mary McAleer, David Grosshans, Safia Ahmed - Led by Dr. Paulino! Prajnan Das, MD, MS, MPH Chelsea C Pinnix MD PhD Albert Koong, MD PhD

8th Annual <a href="/MDAndersonNews/">MD Anderson Cancer Center</a> ☢️ #Pediatric #RadOnc course in the books! ✨🙌🏼 Thank you, Drs. Gohar Manzar, Susan McGovern, Suzanne Wolden, Mary McAleer, David Grosshans, Safia Ahmed - Led by Dr. Paulino! <a href="/PrajnanDasMD/">Prajnan Das, MD, MS, MPH</a> <a href="/ChelseaPinnix/">Chelsea C Pinnix MD PhD</a> <a href="/ACKoongMDPhD/">Albert Koong, MD PhD</a>
Peter WT Pisters, MD (@ppisters) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Delighted to join MD Anderson Cancer Center' Radiation Oncology Town Hall's Fireside Chat with Albert Koong, MD PhD this morning. We had an engaging conversation on recent institutional updates and the critical role that the Radiation Oncology division plays in our mission to #EndCancer.

Delighted to join <a href="/MDAndersonNews/">MD Anderson Cancer Center</a>' Radiation Oncology Town Hall's Fireside Chat with <a href="/ACKoongMDPhD/">Albert Koong, MD PhD</a> this morning. We had an engaging conversation on recent institutional updates and the critical role that the Radiation Oncology division plays in our mission to #EndCancer.
Dr. Nina Niu Sanford (@niusanford) 's Twitter Profile Photo

PANOVA-3: gem/abraxane +/- TTF in locally advanced pancreas cancer. #ASCO25 As compared to other approved LAPC therapies, numerical benefit to TTF is non-trivial (2 month OS, improvement in pain free interval 9 to 15 months), & cost/toxicity less than many. But… 1/3

PANOVA-3: gem/abraxane +/- TTF in locally advanced pancreas cancer. #ASCO25

As compared to other approved LAPC therapies, numerical benefit to TTF is non-trivial (2 month OS, improvement in pain free interval 9 to 15 months), &amp; cost/toxicity less than many.

But…

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Krishan Jethwa (@krishanjethwa) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🔥❓Is Pre-op Chemoradiation the new SoC for locally advanced gallbladder cancer❓🔥 🚨POLCA-GB🚨 T3-4 or N+ GB cancer 🔍Gem-Cis +- CRT CRT Demonstrated: ✅⬆️OS, at median and with substantial separation at tail of curve (read: dcurability) ✅⬆️PFS ✅⬆️Objective response ✅No

🔥❓Is Pre-op Chemoradiation the new SoC for locally advanced gallbladder cancer❓🔥

🚨POLCA-GB🚨
T3-4 or N+ GB cancer
🔍Gem-Cis +- CRT

CRT Demonstrated:
✅⬆️OS, at median and with substantial separation at tail of curve (read: dcurability)
✅⬆️PFS
✅⬆️Objective response
✅No
Ahmed Abdelhakeem, MD (@a_adel90) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🔥 🔥 Check our recently published study Journal of Clinical Oncology exploring the survival benefits of oophorectomy in stage IV gastric adenocarcinoma with Krukenberg metastases doi.org/10.1200/JCO-24… #MedX #OncTwitter MD Anderson Cancer Center Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center

🔥 🔥 Check our recently published study <a href="/JCO_ASCO/">Journal of Clinical Oncology</a> exploring the survival benefits of oophorectomy in stage IV gastric adenocarcinoma with Krukenberg metastases 

doi.org/10.1200/JCO-24…

#MedX #OncTwitter 
<a href="/MDAndersonNews/">MD Anderson Cancer Center</a> 
<a href="/MayoCancerCare/">Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center</a>
Dr. Nina Niu Sanford (@niusanford) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The NCTN, albeit imperfect, serves a critical role in advancing cancer care by: 1)Conducting pragmatic trials pharma/industry would never sponsor 2)Enrolling across a diverse network (>3K sites) representative of a “real world” population Great editorial Ted Hong Thomas George, MD, FACP, FASCO👏

The NCTN, albeit imperfect, serves a critical role in advancing cancer care by:

1)Conducting pragmatic trials pharma/industry would never sponsor

2)Enrolling across a diverse network (&gt;3K sites) representative of a “real world” population

Great editorial <a href="/TedHong9/">Ted Hong</a> <a href="/TGeorgeMD/">Thomas George, MD, FACP, FASCO</a>👏