Laura Book
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@LauraJBook
Former SEO, SEM, Social Media and Internet Marketing Afficionado, now a lung cancer advocate/patient
Here is Version 2.0 of when to hold systemic tx during RT. Updated & w 3 additional drug categories (ADCs, CDK4/6 inhibitors, PARPi). More details on newer drugs in 🧵 below. Please use this version as reference & thanks for all input/experience crowdsourcing! (1/3)
I have seen this work. CARE LOUDLY and make a difference. The alternative is to remain silent and pray for someone else to fix it while research funding erodes until US salaries for researchers are no longer attractive to recruit the brightest minds. Don’t let the morons win!
U.S. bioscience research is collapsing. This is the map of a systemic rot. NIH new award pace this year: 14.6% of normal. If you wanted to stall science, you don't pick & choose states. You just freeze the entire map. In case you missed it: ▫️ ~95,000 scientists gone (@nytimes) ▪️ ~$2.4B in NIH research wiped out ▫️ ~$6B in economic loss (@DrCatharineY / PNAS) This is what (predictably) follows next: ⇣ early-career scientists exit for good ⇣ breakthrough discoveries never made ⇣ trials that never open ⇣ labs that quietly shut down ⇣ global talent choosing other countries ⇣ the next decade of innovation erased before it starts Sadly, you don’t "bounce back" from 14% you just hollow out the system. For a country that leads in science, this is the mo(u)rning after “National Science Appreciation Day” ========== Source: NIH RePORTER via @Jori_health Plot note: NIH new-award counts were compared to the 5-year historic median for every state (as of the first week of March, Q2). ==========
