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RETpositive is a patient-driven non-profit dedicated to improving quality of life and outcomes for those with RET-driven cancers through research, education, and advocacy. RETpositive.org

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Vivek Subbiah: We Don’t Just Write What We Know, We Write to Discover What We Could Know - OncoDaily Vivek Subbiah: We Don’t Just Write What We Know, We Write to Discover What We Could Know / cancer, Nature Reviews Bioengineering, OncoDaily, Oncology, Vivek

What is Missing to Fully Harness Precision Medicine and Transform Cancer Care - Vivek Subbiah
@viveksubbiah.bsky.social
@natmed.nature.com

oncodaily.com/blog/vivek-s...

#OncoDaily #Oncology #Cancer #Health #Medicine #MedEd #MedOnc #MedNews #PrecisionMedicine

21.07.2025 22:54 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

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Good 2024 news: Google's AlphaFold (AI) project has mapped all 200m known proteins in the body. It used to take years to map out a single disease-causing protein mutation. Google has shared this data for free & over 2m research projects are already underway using it.

29.12.2024 16:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Finding Friendship, Advocacy, and a Lung Cancer Community Through Comprehensive Genomic Profiling Finding Friendship, Advocacy, and a Lung Cancer Community Through Comprehensive Genomic Profiling

Check out our article!

A tale of friendship, finding community, and turning pain into purpose!

(And of course the utmost importance of comprehensive next Gen sequencing)

www.thehealthy.com/cancer/lung-...

Thanks to Eli Lilly, The Healthy & Jeremy Greenfield for sponsoring our story

11.12.2024 03:45 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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In spite of being the #1 #cancer killer of men & women (25% of all cancer deaths annually), #lungcancer only receives 9% of federal cancer research grants. Today we celebrate one of our leaders, @hilary-marie.bsky.social. Let's honor patients like Hilary with action: givebutter.com/nV0S6u

01.12.2024 18:08 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Join us Dec 6 for a Facebook Live discussion with Omaima Salous, Dr. Hilary Hammell & Dr. John Heymach, recipient of the 2022 Hamoui Foundation/LUNGevity RET Lung Cancer Research Award. Moderated by Dr. Upal Basu Roy, Executive Director of Research at @lungevity.bsky.social. Tune in: brnw.ch/21wOVA5

25.11.2024 01:10 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Jamie Elifsun, then 44, was diagnosed with Stage 2b RET+ lung cancer in 2021. Her cancer returned as Stage 4. Thanks to #research, she is responding well to targeted therapy, advocating for her lung cancer community, & getting outside with her family. #lcsm #lcam #AnyoneWithLungsCanGetLungCancer

22.11.2024 13:04 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Allison Davidson was diagnosed with Stage 4 #RET+ lung cancer at age 50. She had metastasis to her brain, spine, and liver. Thanks to research, she is able to enjoy her children as they grow up. #BecauseOfResearch #lcsm #lcam

@younglungcancer.bsky.social @oncogenecancer.bsky.social

21.11.2024 16:29 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

@lungevity.bsky.social @oncogenecancer.bsky.social @younglungcancer.bsky.social #lcsm #lungcancer #precisiononcology

20.11.2024 20:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Justin Drake, PhD, Announced as Recipient of RETpositive/LUNGevity Research Award | LUNGevity Foundation

Excited to announce the RET+ Research Award in collaboration w/ Lungevity.

"Novel Protein Degraders for Treating RET-Positive Cancers"

Congratulations to Dr. Justin Drake, PhD!

Thanks to the RET+ community and Lungevity for helping to make this award happen.

www.lungevity.org/news/media-r...

20.11.2024 19:57 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 1
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Some faces of young lung cancer
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#anyonewithlungs #lungcancer

20.11.2024 01:31 👍 22 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 2
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The past decade has been transformative for lung cancer..Yet the sobering reality is not all patients respond to these & we still need cures.

It's why Dr Liu believes we need research to pave the way to better lives and more tomorrows.

@oncogenecancer.bsky.social

18.11.2024 19:53 👍 18 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1