Tatiana Prowell: This is why we never give up

Tatiana Prowell shared a post by Vevs Hughes, a Stage 4 Breast Cancer survivor, on X/Twitter:

“This is why we never give up, Oncology Twitter. Medicine is the best job.”

Quoting Vevs Hughes’s post:

“2023 was not a kind year but I’m now entering year 8 of Stage 4 Breast Cancer. I’m as scared today as I was in 2008 and then 2016 but I’m here and I’m happy and will hopefully see my youngest son reach 18. A goal I never thought that I would see.”

Source: Tatiana Prowell/X and Vevs Hughes/X

Tatiana M. Prowell is an Associate Professor of Oncology in the Division of Women’s Malignancies at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center and Breast Cancer Scientific Liaison to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. She was the principal architect of FDA’s policy on accelerated approval using pathological complete response as a novel regulatory endpoint in the neoadjuvant high-risk breast cancer setting, and a member of the Biden Cancer Moonshot Blue Ribbon Panel Cancer Immunology Working Group. A frequent public speaker, she is a three-time recipient of FDA’s Excellence in Communication Award. She is a past Giants of Cancer Care Award finalist, the recipient of the 2019 John and Samuel Bard Medal in Science or Medicine, and the recipient of a 2020 Webby Special Achievement Award for her effective use of social media during the pandemic. A passionate medical educator and mentor, she was Chair of the 2020 ASCO Annual Meeting Education Committee.