Helene Andrews-Polymenis

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Veterinarian, Bacteriologist, Teacher, Mentor, Mom, Wife, Fighter for social justice, Pancreatic Cancer survivor . @HPolymenis on twitter.
Stand for something. Please. Don't just sit by and watch.

RT @rafee_talukder
@TumorBoardTues @PGrivasMDPhD @MPishvaian @JohnEbbenMDPhD @MattGalsky @DrRosenbergMSK @JonAnker1 @shilpaonc 8/19 #TumorBoardTuesday #UrothelialCancer

🧓🏼started 1st line pembrolizumab (and zometa for bone mets)

💉 Completed 8 cycles
🩻 Restaging CT: progression of 🫁 mets and retroperitoneal lymphadenopathy

🤨 What 2L treatment do you recommend next?

RT @JohnEbbenMDPhD
@MPishvaian @rafee_talukder @TumorBoardTues @PGrivasMDPhD @MattGalsky @DrRosenbergMSK @JonAnker1 @shilpaonc ...and save the ADCs for 3L? #TumorBoardTuesday

RT @MPishvaian
@rafee_talukder @TumorBoardTues @PGrivasMDPhD @JohnEbbenMDPhD @MattGalsky @DrRosenbergMSK @JonAnker1 @shilpaonc #TumorBoardTuesday

I'm guessing that you gotta go with🎯💊in the second-line❓

RT @MPishvaian
@rafee_talukder @TumorBoardTues @PGrivasMDPhD @JohnEbbenMDPhD @MattGalsky @DrRosenbergMSK @JonAnker1 #TumorBoardTuesday

✅I will say, though, that I use oxaliplatin irrespective of renal function - any data for oxaliplatin in #Urothelialcancer

The bird algorithm is all messed up. I don’t see my favorite peeps anymore- but somehow have a bunch of random folks that make feel like that community I so carefully built is gone.
Gorgeous.
Finally got the car hooked up to the wifi so it can update. I freaking love gadgets and this is the biggest gadget I’ve ever had.
Working on a talk to tell my cancer story. It’s depressing and uplifting all at the same time, weirdly!

Wastewater surveillance of airplanes found travelers with covid on 96% of all flights tested. Also found in airport wastewater.

We need immediate mask mandates on all planes and airports--travel in general.

https://www.audacy.com/wwjnewsradio/news/national/coronavirus-found-in-samples-from-96-percent-of-flights