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Aspartame? What is it? Where is it from? What does it do? Is it harmful? What do health agencies think of it? And why might the HHS be planning to ban it from American food? Here's the aspartame review thread🧵

New SEER study from JAMA Network Open re-demonstrates an increase in the incidence of colorectal cancer among young adults in the US over the last 25 years. This database captures about 50% of the US population, so it's an accurate tool for this task. Two big ongoing questions:

M. Elisabeth Sean Langenfeld JAMA Network Open Tom Varghese Jr. MD, MS, MBA, FACS, MAMSE 🇺🇸 Rodrigo O Perez Julio Mayol Steven D Wexner MD, PhD Jennifer Davids, MD ASCRS_1 American Cancer Society Colon Cancer Task Force George J Chang National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) We covered some of this in our City of Hope podcast 🎙️ City of Hope | Orange County. Talking Hope: How liquid biopsies are reshaping colon cancer detection and treatment. cityofhope.org/orange-county/…

Many powerful people don't understand what surgeons do beyond cutting and sewing, and they have a fundamental misunderstanding of where the difficulty and complexity lie within surgery. I guess we'll just see how the tweet ages. Perhaps I can determine if I'm "good" or not by

Elliot Servais, MD, FACS Grok Your electric can opener will surpass human chefs within a few years and win Top Chef within 5 years

This is the most important study you'll see on twitter today. I'm swamped with other work, but I had to read it. Fascinating NEJM article from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center with Longer-term data (and more patients): 6 months of single-agent immunotherapy for MMR-deficient rectal cancers,

The University of Nebraska Medical Center Nebraska Medicine University of Nebraska General Surgery Residency Colorectal Surgery team. Grateful to have such amazing colleagues. Colon cancer doesn't stand a chance.

Entering my Christina Yang era 🫶🏻😭🎉 #thoracicsurgery #fellowshipmatch

This dude builds a plasma cannon out of two water jugs🤯

Congratulations to Dr. Srineil Vuthaluru (Srineil Vuthaluru) for matching Thoracic Surgery at the University of Chicago (UChicago CT Surgery) We’re so proud and can’t to see everything you do in the Windy City 🏙️

Honored by ASBrS for the opportunity to showcase our technique to identify the nipple-areolar complex sensory nerve for allograft reconstruction and sensory restoration after nipple-sparing mastectomy. #ASBrS2025 University of Nebraska General Surgery Residency UNMC College of Medicine Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center Sean Figy MD

Spectacular The Pancreas Club presentation by future Moffitt Cancer Center #CGSO superstar Jason M. Lizalek, MD, using #NCDB to validate a novel #AJCC staging system for #PDAC that incorporates neoadjuvant therapy American College of Surgeons Journal of the American College of Surgeons (JACS) Ammar Asrar Javed, MD 🇺🇸 Christopher Wolfgang University of Nebraska General Surgery Residency Nebraska Medicine University of Nebraska Medical Center

Super pumped about receiving the #ASBrS2025 Scientific Impact Recognition Award, voted by the audience as the best oral scientific presentation. Phenomenal job by our surgery intern, Dr. Mackenzie Jones! ASBrS University of Nebraska General Surgery Residency UNMC College of Medicine Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center Javier Orozco, MD, MSc UNMC Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

This Annals of Surgery study was interesting, thorough, and thoughtful, but after reading it, my take-home message was "residents who had mentors and published a lot in residency are more likely to publish early in practice." Some important points: 1. 2015 was 10 years ago, which

I agree 100% - bariatric surgery with neo adjuvant and post adjuvant anti-obesity medication is the successful present and future standard of care for obesity treatment along with diet change, exercise, and emotional treatment. Protocols need to be developed and tested. 🎤

THE. FEUD. IS. BACK. 5/11 5:00 PM #ASCRS25 #GoldenAnoscope ASCRS_1 David Liska Scott R. Steele Sonia Ramamoorthy, MD FACS FASCRS Justin Maykel Radhika Smith Michael A. Valente Patricia Sylla Steven D Wexner MD, PhD Joshua Bleier Lilian Chen Jason Hall Sang W. Lee, MD Anjali Kumar MD MPH Tommy Curran Joe Carmichael MD Katerina Wells MD

Habemus Papam! We have a Pope! The Cardinals gathered in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel have elected Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost as the 267th Pope, who took the name Pope Leo XIV.

Ron Barbosa MD FACS As a surgeon - Surgery is a great career. No regrets. The patients make it what it is. As a patient - you as a surgeon will never fully comprehend the gratitude that patients have for your skill, empathy & humanity. Giving the gift of life is such an amazing thing to do.

The ASCRS_1 Executive Council meets before the start of #ASCRS25 We have a great program planned, and more than 2,100 registrants! I hope to see you all soon.

Important DCRjournal editorial from our susan galandiuk on the importance of integrity in journal submissions. journals.lww.com/dcrjournal/cit… ASCRS_1 #ASCRS25