Two Onc Docs

This week’s episode will be focusing on Porphyrias…which is very timely since this week is HALLOWEEN and porphyrias are the diseases many people believe started the vampire legend! 

This week’s episode is part 3 of our breast cancer series, with a 2025 update focusing on metastatic breast cancer systemic therapies, toxicities, and supportive care considerations. 

This week’s episode will be focusing on treatment options for localized breast cancer with 2025 updates. We will go over important details on indications for adjuvant radiation, as well as therapies based on the ER/PR/HER-2 receptor status.

October marks Breast Cancer Awareness Month. We are providing 2025 update for our 3 part breast cancer episodes, in part 1 today we cover an introduction on breast cancer screening, prevention. 

This week’s episode will be focusing on Esophageal and Gastrosophageal Junction (GEJ) Cancer. We will go over important details on the risk factors, diagnosis, and treatment for both localized and metastatic esophageal cancer.

This week’s episode will be focusing on Immune Thrombocytopenia Purpura ( ITP).   We will go all the important details on causes, mechanism, diagnosis and treatment. The last time we covered this topic was in Sept 2022, and this comes up ALL the time in heme consults, and there will definitely be board review questions. It may also be tested on IM boards.

This week’s episode will be an update on Bone Sarcomas. We will go over the important details on diagnosis, staging, subtypes and treatment of a few bone sarcomas. Just like Soft Tissue Sarcomas, these are RARE tumors encompassing 1% of all adult cancers and having multiple subtypes. They are more common in children, and most of our bone sarcoma recommendations that are testable are based on pediatric data.

This week’s episode will be focusing on soft tissue sarcomas. We last recorded this topic in 2023, and well we have some new FDA approvals and updates since then.

We will go over the important details on the diagnosis, subtypes and treatment of a few soft tissue sarcomas. These are RARE tumors encompassing 1% of all adult cancers and having multiple subtypes that range from noncancerous tumors such as desmoid tumors to aggressive cancers and everything in between. 

Today’s episode will focus on an update for commonly tested Thrombotic microangiopathies (TMA) such as Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (TTP). This will include the high yield facts on mechanism, presentation, diagnostic work-up, and treatment of TTP, and also discuss Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS), and atypical HUS.

This week’s episode will be focusing on Gastric Adenocarcinoma. We will go over all the important details on risk factors, diagnostic work-up, staging and treatment for both local regional disease and metastatic disease with updates in 2025 since we last covered this topic in 2023.