Matt Cooperberg
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@dr_coops
Urologic oncology & epi, focus on #prostatecancer @UCSFcancer @UCSFurology. GU Chief @SFVAMC. All views strictly personal. RT≠E. #🟦
One of the standout talks of #ESTRO2026 👏 'A lot to be proud of' @alison_tree brilliantly highlighted how modern #RadOnc in #PCa is evolving beyond technology alone , with increasing focus on continenze, sexual function and QoL alongside outstanding cancer control!
New in our partnership with @DGlaucomflecken: the KEYNOTE-905 trial evaluated enfortumab vedotin plus pembrolizumab as perioperative therapy in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer who were ineligible to receive cisplatin. Read the full study for free: nej.md/DrG40
"Indigenous" is a real concept applied with a fake standard. The word means "the population already there when someone else arrived." Fine. The problem isn't the definition. It's that the people who deploy it loudest apply it to exactly one set of migrations and pretend the others never happened. The Bantu expansion swept across half of Africa, absorbing or displacing the peoples who lived there first. No one calls Bantu-speakers settlers. The Turks arrived in Anatolia in the 11th century and replaced Greeks and Armenians whose roots there ran thousands of years deeper. No one demands they go back to Central Asia. Slavs pushed into lands held by earlier Europeans. Arabs spread from a single peninsula across North Africa and the Levant, Arabizing populations that had been there since antiquity. Anglo-Saxons displaced Britons. Han Chinese absorbed countless earlier peoples across what is now southern and western China. None of these get the colonizer label. Each one is treated as just "history." The label only activates for a narrow, politically chosen set. Almost always Europeans, and almost always Jews returning to the one place on earth where their indigeneity is older than the word itself. That's not a definition. That's a filter. And the filter exists to produce a predetermined answer. Hate the messenger if you like. The history isn't an opinion.
@PBlanchardMD presents at #estro26 PEACE2 results showing no significant difference with elective pelvic radiotherapy in high risk localized prostate cancer (at least 2 risk factors).
