Beating the odds! Despite gastrectomy and chemo (for the second time in my life -lymphoma survivor now gastric cancer), I am glad to present my recently funded data @AIRC_it at this Fantastic Day1 of the #VEXAS international workshop in Milan🇮🇹 thanks to @Unicatt @unitorvergata2

Congratulations my friend 🙌🏽 I am so proud of you 💪🏽

@NicoGagelmann

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We're excited to announce the 2026 Blood Journals' Editorial Fellows! Learn more about them: linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

JUST RELEASED!
The 2026 Update of the Surviving #Sepsis Campaign Guidlines is now online!
Permanent Free Access
Adult: zurl.co/I7hBu
Children: zurl.co/JKedS

And here we are live with casting your votes for the @TheEBMT WP chairs.
I would be honored to get your support for the CMWP. #EBMT #HCT

🚨🚨🚨 @TheEBMT Elections are almost here!!! I am applying for CMWP chair and will be honored to receive your support! My agenda is in the official link below. Thanks everybody and happy voting time ahead

Often, we hold a special place in our patients' lives, as they do in ours. 💕 Join me and Manuela Spadea, MD on the latest @JCO_ASCO Podcast #CancerStories as we discuss her moving essay "North Star." ascopubs.org/do/north-star-… @ASCO @SylvesterCancer

Quantifying the Relationship Between Renal Function and Procalcitonin: A Study of 14,431 Blood Cultures

🔁 Repost
🔗 bit.ly/3Ja6fkC

Letermovir Prophylaxis in Children After Allo-HCT - @ManuelaSpadea

oncodaily.com/voices/manuela…

#Cancer #Medicine #Health #Oncology #OncoDaily #MedX #MedNews #MedEd

Excited to share a new paper on letermovir in children after allo-HCT—looking at immune reconstitution and the broader viral infection landscape.
Read here: google.com/url?q=https://…

#PedsHCT #CMV #HSCT #TransplantID

Excited to share a new paper on letermovir in children after allo-HCT—looking at immune reconstitution and the broader viral infection landscape.
Read here: google.com/url?q=https://…

#PedsHCT #CMV #HSCT #TransplantID

The winners of our first ever @JCO_ASCO Art of Oncology Narrative Medicine Contest are now online! Read the best of >150 entries by authors @TaylorGoodstein, @CupitMaggie, and @ManuelaSpadea! What truly inspiring essays! 📕🎗️🧐 ascopubs.org/doi/full/10.12… @ASCO @SylvesterCancer

My essay “North Star” is out in @JCO_ASCO (Art of Oncology). It’s about what children with cancer need most when outcomes blur: presence. Winner, JCO Narrative Medicine Contest. doi.org/10.1200/JCO-25… #PedsOnc

Reflections on hope in medicine

Hope in medicine is a strange and fragile thing. Sometimes we need hope and its complete opposite to grasp what's real, gone and coming.

For patients, it can feel like a narrow stream of light in a corridor that never seems to end. Every test result opens another door, but behind it are more questions, more waiting rooms, more ambiguous conversations.

For physicians, hope is both a guide and a weight. We want to offer it, because it keeps people moving forward. But we also fear giving too much, afraid it might become a cruel trick played by the illness itself and a promise that dissolves under the harsh glare of reality.

Hope isn’t just about cures. It’s about moments: one more birthday, less pain, laughter with family, a few quiet days without fear. It’s the thread that stitches meaning through the uncertainty that defines so much of medicine.

The hardest part is that medicine can’t always deliver clear answers. Sometimes we exist in a fog where the path forward is hidden, and we’re left making decisions with incomplete maps. In those moments, hope can feel both essential and dangerous.

Yet even in this uncertainty, hope remains necessary. Not as blind optimism, but as a refusal to let illness steal every possibility. It’s the quiet promise that even if we can’t cure, we can still care, and that suffering does not have the final word.

In this way, hope is medicine’s most human offering and perhaps its most honest one.

#EBMT25 | The lovely @ManuelaSpadea of @unito speaks about work investigating letermovir prophylaxis versus pre-emptive therapy in pediatric patients and the impact on immune reconstitution after alloSCT.

Click to watch the interview:
👉 ow.ly/eLib50VKlhi

#BMTsm #HemOnc

Great piece led by @Candice_0511 and @ManuelaSpadea from our committee in @TheLancetHaem on Global paediatric haematopoietic stem-cell transplantation training and access: providing strategies to overcome challenges💥💥💥
thelancet.com/journals/lanha…

🚨 New podcast alert! 🚨

Catch the key highlights from #EBMT25 — from preventing & managing GvHD to harnessing AI in transplant, and more.

🎧 Tune in now: ow.ly/izn250VCha2

#BMTsm #HemOnc

Excited to share the updated ECIL guidelines on primary antifungal prophylaxis in hematological malignancies!
Honored to contribute to this important work, focusing on the pediatric aspects.
Read here: nature.com/articles/s4137…
#hematology #ECIL #AntifungalProphylaxis

We can't believe we just wrapped up our last day at #EBMT25 – it's flown by!😁

We finished by hearing from the lovely @ManuelaSpadea, who gave a compelling argument for embracing the hematologist-AI alliance, discussed highlights from a session on treating children with cellular her interesting oral presentation.🎥

#BMTsm #AI @TheEBMT