As you might already know, thirteen (!!) years ago, on a Friday of January, my mother died out of breast cancer that metastasized her brain. I was a (struggling) undergraduate Physics student at the time, partly because of the great toll her disease had in all my family.

People who don't follow cancer research often ask me why we haven't cured cancer. That perception masks a wonderful reality: We make amazing, stepwise progress every year, and the result is that many people live much longer today than they would have previously. Right now we're in the thick of the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the biggest research meeting on new cancer medicines, and this morning a bunch of really important studies dropped. I'm going to review them here. This first image is the result for daraxonrasib, a treatment for pancreatic cancer that is generating consdirable excitement. The green line is the probability of living for patients who got the new drug; the gray one is the chemo control group. If you follow cancer drugs, a chart like this will make your breath hitch a little. I'm going to review these and some other data here.

Congrats to Dr. @chuesaberral, awarded an NIH/NCI K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award! 🎉 His project predicts the radiation dose liver tumors receive in Y-90 radioembolization, before treatment, to make the therapy more precise and more curative. #Theranostics #Y90

El malagueño @chuesaberral y su K99/R00 en su camino a la independencia como investigador en el Mass General y Harvard @DiarioSUR @canalsurmalaga @COPEMalaga @SER_Malaga @OndaCeroMalaga

Un chino cantando por bulerías una letrita del Torta es de lo mejor que puedo ofreceros hoy. PD: el artista es Manuel de la China.

Voy a meterme en un terreno espinoso por petición de @chuesaberral y dada la exposición que tenemos habitualmente a... LA CIENCIA Y LA ACADEMIA EN ESPAÑA. Hilo va.

🧵 Anyone who has visited Spain during Holy Week or watched videos of Spanish Holy Week processions often finds the mysterious hooded figures intriguing and confusing (this is especially true for Americans). Who are these masked individuals, and why do they hide their faces? Let's find out 👇