Breast surgical oncologist , former fellow@uiowa_surgery, Husband, father, packers fan, Less is More. # live by tenacity and gratitude
Wisconsin, USA
Joined August 2018
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Rally for Kids: A successful pickleball tournament fundraiser for St. Vincent Children’s Hospital! My partner and I were proud to take 2nd place. Hoping to see even more physicians join in next time
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Dr. Manny Gabriel is running for Chair of the American College of Surgeons Young Fellows Association! Check your email TOMORROW for voting info—let’s show our support and vote ✅
#HealthcareLeadership #MedicalExcellence #AmericanCollegeofSurgeons
Early-stage TNBC who did not undergo adjuvant or neoadjuvant chemotherapy, breast cancer tissue with a higher abundance of tumor infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) levels was associated with significantly better survival.5-yr OS 95% vs 82%. DOI: 10.1001/jama.2024.3056. ->guide chemo
Another 5K with Eric PI day Leonardo Da Vinci school fund raise for Greater Green Bay Habitat for Humanity.
Women with atypia detected more recently have lower rates of subsequent cancers detected, which might be associated with changes to mammography and biopsy techniques identifying forms of atypia that are more likely to represent overdiagnosis. BMJ DOI: 10.1136/bmj-2023-077039
Thank you Dr.Chatterjee, Dr. Czerniecki putting together this amazing oncoplastic course, Dr.Homsy and all the faculties for the wonderful presentations. As a breast surgeon always enthusiastic at oncoplastic techniques , I feel very comfortable to incorporate them to my practice
Very proud to be part of this extremely successful Moffitt Cancer Center and @TuftsMedicalCtr advanced oncoplastic surgery 2 day course. Teaching the present and future oncoplastic surgeons @MoffittNews #oncoplastics #oncoplasty #breastreconstruction
The combination of screening, stage I- III treatment, and metastatic treatment -> a 58% reduction in breast CA mortality in 2019;
treatment of metastatic breast CA, treatment of stage I - III breast CA, and mammography screening ->29%, 47,% and 25% of the reduction respectively.
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#AudioVisualAbstract : Overall Survival Following #NeoadjuvantChemotherapy Versus #AdjuvantChemotherapy in Clinically Node Negative T1 Triple Negative #BreastCancer @KaiHuangMD1 @UIowa_Surgery
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Great oncoplastic course coming up!
Register for the first annual Moffitt Cancer Center oncoplastic surgery course. #oncoplastic designs using reduction and local flap techniques using lectures and cadaveric lab dissections by #oncoplasticsurgery leaders. Registration link below:
web.cvent.com/event/b0659640…
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This #FeaturedArticle from Annals of Surgical Oncology demonstrates patients are satisfied with their decision to undergo contralateral mastectomy, supporting surgeons to offer women this option.
📃surgonc.org/annals/featured-…
Excise is more important than you think- high levels of leisure-time physical activity were associated with a
10% reduction in breast cancer risk in premenopausal women after adjustment of BMI. DOI: 10.1200/JCO.23.01101
RT to regional nodes in early BC significantly reduced BC mortality and all-cause mortality in trials done after the 1980s, but not in older trials(EBCTCG).
15 yr BC mortality reduce for LN -, 1.6%;
1-3 LN +2.7%; ≥4 LN+ 4.5% .
Lancet 2023. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(23)01082-6
Sound Trial(omitting SLNB in early BC): SLNB vs No biopsy.
Medium follow up 5.7 yrs.
5-yr DFS：97.7% vs 98.0%（p=0.67，HR，0.84，90% CI：0.45～1.54，non inferiority P=0.02）
5-yr LR ：1.7% vs 1.6%
5-yr distant metastasis ：1.8% vs. 2.0% 5-yr all cause mortality：3.0% vs. 2.6%
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Time to start omitting regional nodal irradiation in favorable-risk 1-3 N+/Oncotype <25 breast cancer patients?
In scndry analysis of (~4000! women in) SWOG S1007 out in @JAMAOnc
5y LRR after BCS + RNI: 0.85%(!)
5y LRR after BCS and *NO* RNI: 0.55%(!!)
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
A further step toward omitting radiation LUMINA trial- women >= 55 years of age, T1N0, grade 1 or 2, luminal A breast cancer,treated with breast-conserving surgery and endocrine therapy alone, 5 year LR was low(2.3%) with the omission of radiotherapy. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2302344
Our study showed OS of upfront surgery followed by ACT was not inferior to those who underwent NACT for cT1N0 TNBC patients. #BestStudyoftheDay on linkedin.com/groups/3660202/ link.springer.com/article/10…
3-4 mins of vigorous intermittent lifestyle physical activity daily may be aw ↓ cancer incidence risk by 30%, which may be a promising intervention for cancer prevention among individuals unable or unmotivated to exercise in leisure time.JAMA. doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2023.1830
Data to counsel women: A two-thirds reduction in breast cancer mortality (14.4% risk of dying from breast cancer within 5 years in 1993–99. This fell to 4.9% for women diagnosed in 2010–15).
Huge leap in breast-cancer survival rate. Nature 2023. doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-0…
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