Breast surgical oncologist @ Duke. Healthcare research @NIH Proud alum @sloan_kettering, @ufhealthjax @uflorida . opinions are my own.
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Astrid Botty van den Bruele, MD retweeted
Join us for the Duke Breast Program’s 4th Annual Pickle for Pink fundraising event. 🏓🎀It will be Friday, October 30, through Sunday, November 1, at the Duke Faculty Club in Durham, NC. The weather looks like it will be beautiful!!! 🌞🍁🍂 @DukeCancer
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Astrid Botty van den Bruele, MD retweeted
Academic Surgical Congress Starting tomorrow! Exciting line up of oral presentations from breast surgical oncology! Congrats to our students, Maya Blasingame, MS3, Ebun Olunuga, MS4, & Jeana Chun, MS3🌟🌟🌟Mentored by @JenniferPlichta @abotty02
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Astrid Botty van den Bruele, MD retweeted
Survival Disparities in Patients With Metastatic Breast Cancer - PubMed 🌟🌟🌟Check out recent publication from our breast surgical oncology 👏👏👏 Congrats to our med student Koumani Ntowe. Amazing mentorship by @JenniferPlichta
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Don’t forget to schedule your mammograms!
Annual screening mammography starting at age 40 remains one of the most effective tools we have for reducing breast cancer mortality.
Share these facts to support informed conversations about breast cancer screening.
#BreastCancerScreening #EarlyDetection
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Such a beautiful morning for pickleball! supportdukehealth.org/site/S…
@DukeSurgOnc @DukeSurgery @maggiedinomemd
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Don’t forget to bid our auction items!
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Astrid Botty van den Bruele, MD retweeted
"What's Best for Breasts? A Conversation with Clinicians," returns for its 9th year on Sat., Oct. 11! Join this free community health education event presented by Duke clinicians and researchers.
Learn more and register: duke.is/WB4B
#BreastCancerAwarenessMonth
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Astrid Botty van den Bruele, MD retweeted
New weekly @AnnSurgOncol featured the article: Contemporary Trends in Axillary Surgery for ER-Positive, HER2-Negative Breast Cancer Stratified by Neoadjuvant Endocrine Therapy, Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy, or Upfront Surgery. ow.ly/KxVI50X6cjq
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"Patients receiving NET had lower nodal pCR, this did not translate to higher ALND after SLNB, suggesting that providers do not interpret residual nodal disease after NET the same way as after NAC.” @abotty02 @sashaRdouglas @AnnSurgOncol
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Astrid Botty van den Bruele, MD retweeted
We are proud co-sponsors of the first international symposium on phyllodes tumors. Will we see that there?
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Congratulations!! 🥳
Excited to share news of my promotion to Associate Prof in #RadOnc. I have been blessed as junior faculty with both senior & peer mentors who have given me opportunities, feedback, encouragement, & support over the past 6 yrs. Excited to see what the future holds @MDAndersonNews.
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We’re so excited to welcome @VHaneyMD to the Duke family!
We are ecstatic to celebrate Chief Resident Dr. Victoria Haney @VHaneyMD and her breast surgical oncology fellowship match at Duke 💙✨!! We can’t wait to watch your career flourish as you continue to make us #GWProud 🥳🥹 #BreastSurgery #Match2025
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The IGNYTE Trial, presented by Dr. Georgia Beasley at #SSO2025, is now online @JCO_ASCO! Read about RP1 combined with Nivo for Patients with Advanced PD-1-Failed Melanoma ⬇️ ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/JCO… @DukeSurgery @DukeCancer
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Congratulations @krisrho93 on matching at MSKCC! You’re going yo have such an amazing experience!!
Thrilled to match at Memorial Sloan Kettering for Surg Onc Fellowship!! Thanks to all my mentors @DukeSurgOnc, wouldn’t be here without them!
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The Association of Race and Ethnicity with Risk-Reducing Mastectomies in Patients with non-BRCA Mutations 🔪 @BrenessaL @herbchen @pferrada1 @PipeCabreraV @CiruAndes2 @SWexner @TomVargheseJr @sminaev2015 @gogo_gopss Link: americanjournalofsurgery.com…
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Astrid Botty van den Bruele, MD retweeted
In women with node-positive breast cancer whose nodes became free of disease after neoadjuvant therapy, regional nodal irradiation did not reduce breast cancer recurrence or improve survival. Full results from a phase 3 trial: nej.md/4dM6LjD
ALT A graph of the effect of regional nodal irradiation on the invasive breast cancer recurrence–free interval.
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Astrid Botty van den Bruele, MD retweeted
A Multi-Institutional Analysis of Contralateral Axillary Metastases (CAM). Survival was higher for patients with CAM compared with MBC. Consider curative intent management for patients with CAM.? Congrats to @abotty02 @RosenbergerMd 🌟 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4039…
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Astrid Botty van den Bruele, MD retweeted
.@eberger32 shares data to help answer when omission of axillary surgery a safe choice for early-stage #breastcancer #ASCO25, noting the decision should always be made with multidisciplinary care partners. @YaleBreast @SmilowCancer @ASCO @OncoAlert @YaleSurgery
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Congratulations to the four Duke University School of Medicine students named 2025-26 North Carolina Albert Schweitzer Fellows:
• Alexandra Hunter
• Rebecca Zasloff
• Sally Kuehn
• Mindy Kim
🔗 Read more: medschool.duke.edu/news/four…
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