The Cancer Letter ✓

@TheCancerLetter · Washington, D.C. · joined 08 Mar 2009

The leading independent source for information on the issues that shape #oncology since 1973. Historical initiative: @cancerhistproj

27 166Followers

1 468Following

12 933Posts total

3.4KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

The Cancer Letter ✓@TheCancerLetter4 Sep

Raja Flores: "I said, ‘How did this get passed by the FDA?’ Then I looked in the FDA records and I could see that when this trial or when these drugs went up for their label, it didn’t have a committee meeting. They felt that the data was compelling enough, and so it passed the 929 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

The Cancer Letter ✓@TheCancerLetter3 Sep

.@KimrynRathmell: "It is easy to see the parallels with cancer. Many of the inequalities of prevention, screening, treatment, and outcomes for cancer are not intrinsically different from that of tuberculosis." https://t.co/QXcoQWR0ZE 821 views · 5 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

The Cancer Letter ✓@TheCancerLetter1 Sep

Sid Sijbrandij/@sytses: "When I ran out of standard of care, I was 'default dead' in the most literal sense there is. My runway of options was at an end, and if nothing else changed, I was going to die." https://t.co/VbA6S6DI6a 696 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

The Cancer Letter ✓@TheCancerLetter31 Aug

"The question for the cancer care community today is not whether the scientific opportunities remain. It is whether the global development system can convert innovative science into benefit for patients everywhere, within a reasonable time, without requiring each region to 489 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

The Cancer Letter ✓@TheCancerLetter28 Aug

"Ethical AI and mental health ethics have often developed along separate paths, but with new integrations come the new challenge of sharing the same goal: Providing safe, equitable, trustworthy, and patient-centered care." - @WilmotCancer's Clark et al. https://t.co/hMk44UQEIz 474 views · 1 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views696this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %2.56%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.32%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	696	924	0.75×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.56%	3.62%	0.71×
Engagement rate	0.32%	1.52%	0.21×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

47428 Aug

48931 Aug

6961 Sep

8213 Sep

9294 Sep

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.42%28 Aug

0.00%31 Aug

0.29%1 Sep

0.73%3 Sep

0.32%4 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes62.5%10 in total

Reposts12.5%2 in total

Replies6.2%1 in total

Bookmarks18.8%3 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.