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Moffitt Cancer Center is a global leader in patient care, research and education with a mission to contribute to the prevention and cure of cancer.
Tampa, FL
Joined March 2009
From pioneering FDA approved therapies to innovative predictive models, Moffitt redefined what was possible in cancer care this year. Explore how our discoveries in 2024 are changing lives:
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Please join us in welcoming Dr. Patrick Hwu as the new president and CEO of Moffitt Cancer Center! We are so honored to have him join the Moffitt family. Welcome, Dr. Hwu!
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⚡️⚡️Congratulations @TBLightning on winning the 2020 #StanleyCup You make #TeamTampaBay proud every day, but especially tonight! #GoBolts ⚡️⚡️.
THIS IS OUR TIME. YOUR TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING ARE STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONS!!!!!
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Every week is National Nurses Week here. Thank you to all of our nurses (and all nurses everywhere) for inspiring.
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It was a very special night @AmalieArena for #HockeyFightsCancer night! Thanks to our partners @TBLightning for honoring our courageous patients, survivors, caregivers and team members who continue the fight against cancer each and every day. 💜💜#BoltsFightCancer #BoltsWin ⚡️⚡️
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SURPRISE! What would you do if @TBLightning's @Akillorn19 & @heds77 stopped by your room at Moffitt? #BoltsFightCancer ⚡️💜🏒
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“The most important part was being able to have those conversations and ask those questions. ”
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A tender moment as 22-year-old @USouthFlorida student Akshay Naik marks his last chemo session. #BullStrong 🔔🤘
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During #ASH24, Onyee Chan, MD presents on phase 1/1b dose escalation and expansion of CPX-351 in combination with gemtuzumab ozogamicin in newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia. Read more: @ASH_hematology #MoffittASH24
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SURPRISE! What would you do if @TBLightning's Alex Killorn and Ryan McDonagh visited you at Moffitt? P.S. Thanks for an amazing #HockeyFightsCancer game last night! ⚡️💜🏒
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Surviving cancer is often the spark that ignites a life-changing sense of purpose.
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Wishing our friends at @TBLightning the best of luck in the #StanleyCup Final! Make #TeamTampaBay proud! #GoBolts ⚡️
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A moment of silence at tonight's @TBLightning #BoltsFightCancer game for all the lives lost to cancer. 💜
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Welcome, Karen Lu, MD (@karenlumd), who will join Moffitt as our new Physician in Chief in June. She has a proven track record of successfully leading clinical and translational teams, and we could not be more excited for her to join Moffitt at such a transformative time.
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The @TBLightning Community Hockey team and ThunderBug stopped by Moffitt’s magnolia campus today to spread a little Bolts cheer ahead of the team's annual #HockeyFightsCancer game this weekend! @LightningMade @ThunderBugTBL
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For the first time in months, @DrewOnTheRadio returns to the airwaves. The radio host shares where he’s at today and his hopes for a cancer-free future.
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At #ASH24, David Sallman, MD joined Jeff Lancet, MD (@LancetJeff) to discuss the importance of measurable residual disease in AML and MDS. #MoffittASH24 @ASH_hematology
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HAPPENING NOW: @FLOTUS Dr. Jill Biden, @NCIDirector Dr. Ned Sharpless and @USRepKCastor are touring @MoffittNews to highlight 'Cancer Moonshot' initiative. #CancerMoonshot
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With this warm of a welcome to the ice, it's gonna be a good game! #HockeyFightsCancer #BoltsFightCancer @TBLightning
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Congratulations to Dr. Marilena Tauro (@mari___lena) on receiving the NCI/NIH R03 grant for her research targeting ULK3 for the treatment of triple negative breast cancer! It is a significant accomplishment, and her work will contribute valuable insights to the field. We wish
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Thank you all for your support in this fight! #BoltsFightCancer #HockeyFightsCancer 💜.
All of our #Bolts and all of the @edmontonoilers players held up their personal I Fight For cards pregame tonight in a show of solidarity. 💜. #HockeyFightsCancer
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World-renowned tumor immunologist or member of a band? Try both! Meet Dr. Patrick Hwu, the new president and CEO of @MoffittNews.
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Moffitt Cancer Center at Port Tampa Bay is officially open! 💙🥳 ..We are so grateful to @PortTampaBay and @LightningFDN - whose partnership helped bring this center to life.
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Today and every day, we salute John and everyone else who has fought cancer.
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Baseball great @JoeyBats19 never goes to bat without SPF 30+. Plus more sun safety tips in his PSA. #HealthyHabits
http://t.co/oitw0grDYf.
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Our favorite sound 💙🔔.Meet the Moffitt patients who were among the first to ring the bell in 2023, marking the end of their cancer treatment.
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The courage of our patients is what inspires Moffitt Cancer Center. Even when they are one of our own.
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Moffitt has been named a top 10 cancer hospital in America by Newsweek and Statista! Moffitt is also ranked No. 1 in Florida and the Southeast. View the full America’s Best Cancer Hospitals 2023 list ➡️
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Congratulations to the W. Jackson Pledger, PhD Researcher of the Year Dr. Paulo Rodriguez!
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Of the 902 hospitals evaluated for cancer care in the U.S., Moffitt’s ranking places it in the top 1 percent.
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Please join us in recognizing our Environmental Services night team from Moffitt’s Magnolia Campus for their incredible work, which is even more critical at a time like this. #HealthcareHeroes #MoffittStrong 💙
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Today, we celebrate 36 years of saving lives as Florida’s premier cancer center.
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Congratulations to Dr. Lauren Peres who was awarded her first R01 for her research project “Methylomic Basis of Survival Disparities Among Black and White Women with High-grade Serous Ovarian Cancer."
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Not even a global pandemic can stop our favorite mascots from visiting @MoffittNews for the 7th annual Mascots (virtually) at Moffitt Day! Thanks to Captain Fear, Raymond, Rocky, ThunderBug, DJ Kitty and Pete the Pelican for keeping the socially distant party going! #TeamTampaBay
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Today Moffitt Cancer Center expresses enormous gratitude to Dr. Louis Harrison, whose last day is July 31. Dr. Harrison will forever be Chair Emeritus of the Department of Radiation Oncology. Dr. Harrison started at Moffitt in September 2014 and has held numerous positions,
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Special delivery! Thanks to @TBLightning, @ThunderBugTBL and @cicciorg for feeding our front line team today. #GoBolts 💙
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Great big shout out to @USFAthletics and the @USFFootball team! Players visited @MoffittNews patients and families today, handing out both goodies and smiles! 🤘#GoBulls
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At Moffitt, we're here to support your cancer care every step of the way. 💙.
The kindest group of people just came into my room and delivered a care package and so many uplifting messages. I’ve been going to this radiation team for nine years and I am absolutely blown away by their gesture. Thank you. @MoffittNews
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A big THANK YOU to @TBLightning's @BriBrows22 for bringing a smile to our patients' faces today! #GoBolts
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Today, @POTUS Biden announced a relaunch of the Cancer Moonshot Project he oversaw during the Obama administration. @MoffittNews Center Director and Executive Vice President Dr. John Cleveland was among a small group of stakeholders who attended the event. #moonshot
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@CuseFootball and former @PlantHighSchool QB Rex Culpepper is using his football skills to tackle his cancer diagnosis.
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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Braydon Coburn and Jan Rutta from the @TBLightning playing Pictionary with Moffitt patients and survivors!
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We are thrilled to share that Dr. Jhanelle Gray, department chair, program leader, and senior member for thoracic oncology at Moffitt, has been elected to a member seat on the American Society of Clinical Oncology (@ASCO) Board of Directors, where she will serve a four-year term!
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Not just another night at the ballpark as @RaysBaseball took on @tigers tonight during Moffitt Day at the Trop! #RaysUp
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Today, @FLOTUS Dr. Jill Biden and @NCIDirector Dr. Ned Sharpless met with scientists, doctors and leaders @MoffittNews to learn about our efforts to increase screening and prevention in the community. #CancerMoonshot | #CancerResearch
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Yesterday, Moffitt patients got a surprise visit from the @TBLightning mascot @ThunderBugTBL! Tonight, our community will come together @AmalieArena for #HockeyFightsCancer night. We hope to see you there! 💜
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Patients in Moffitt's Infusion Center got a surprise visit from @RaysBaseball pitcher @JDFaria34 and mascot DJ Kitty today! #RaysUp
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A Big Apple shout out from @Nasdaq for paying tribute to @MoffittNews on their Times Square marquee in New York City! Nasdaq has been recognizing health care organizations throughout the pandemic and honoring those dedicated to outstanding patient and specialty care. 🍎 🗽
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Join Greg Sawyer, PhD (@ProfGregSawyer) and Patrick Hwu, MD (@PatrickHwuMD) at #SITC24 as they explore how engineering and cancer research unite in the mission to cure cancer. #MoffittSITC24
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Thyroid cancer has high survival rates but is still life-altering.
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Today @MoffittNews was pleased to host @FLCaseyDeSantis to discuss increased research funding for NCI Designated Cancer Centers in Florida. We look forward to working with @GovRonDeSantis and the Legislature in advocating for continued investment in our state’s cancer centers.
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In honor of #InternationalHPVAwarenessDay being on March 4, Moffitt's Dr. Giuliano explains what HPV is. #HPV #AskAboutHPV #EndHPVCancers
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Hey @NewYorker: this year's Surg Onc grad class is Moffitt's 1st all-female class! #NYerORCoverChallenge #ILookLikeASurgeon Cc: @clarongamd
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Help us congratulate our President and CEO, @PatrickHwuMD, on his well-deserved recognition as part of the @TBBJnewsroom Power 100 list. Your commitment to advancing Moffitt's mission and leadership in our community is inspiring. We're proud to have you as a leader at Moffitt and
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Here’s a look at @FLOTUS Dr. Jill Biden's visit to @MoffittNews yesterday. She and @NCIDirector Dr. Ned Sharpless saw the inner workings of a research lab, toured our mobile cancer screening unit and met with some of the brightest minds at Moffitt. #CancerMoonshot.
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Moffitt Cancer Center is excited about the 2024 Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer Annual Meeting! As leaders of immunotherapy, we look forward to highlighting dozens of our researchers and sharing how Moffitt is impacting cancer outcomes. Stay tuned for updates with
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Live from #AACR23: Dr. Jeffery West (@mathoncbro) presents on applying the principles of convexity and concavity to guide treatment scheduling of ALK inhibitors in non-small cell lung cancer. Read more ➡️
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Please join us in wishing our very own founder, H. Lee Moffitt, the happiest of birthdays today and a wonderful year ahead!
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Come along with us to see the construction progress at the new Moffitt McKinley Hospital! The new inpatient hospital is set to open with its first surgery July 31, 2023.
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Guess who's helping us celebrate our 30th anniversary? Love you, @TBLightning @ThunderBugTBL! #Moffitt30
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Thank you @RaysBaseball for raising $200,000 for Moffitt this baseball season! @Evan3Longoria #RaysUp
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Moffitt is excited to welcome our new Physician in Chief Karen Lu, MD (@karenluMD)! With Dr. Lu’s proven track record of successfully leading clinical & translational research teams the organization is excited to work alongside such a talented individual.
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Congratulations to our President and CEO, @PatrickHwuMD, for being selected for @FloridaTrend’s 2023 edition of the #Florida500! 👏 The special publication highlights the 500 most influential executives in different economic sectors throughout the state. We are so lucky to have
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The first shipment of #COVID19 vaccines arrived @MoffittNews today to be distributed to health care workers. 500 team members will safely receive their first dose of the vaccine -- a critical step in protecting them and our vulnerable population of cancer patients.
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"When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore." Big thanks to @RaysBaseball, who teamed up with @PapaJohns to deliver a special lunch to our heroes on the frontlines today @MoffittNews!
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Way better than cake: Daughter tells day she's cancer-free on his birthday.
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Moffitt is the first healthcare provider in the US to commercially administer a newly-approved therapy for #SmallCellLungCancer. The @FDA recently approved #Tarlatamab for patients with advanced disease. @JhanelleGray of @moffittnews calls the landmark treatment an honor ⬇️
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Happy #NationalDoctorsDay to all our amazing doctors! Drop a comment to thank your favorite Moffitt Cancer Center doc.👇
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At #SITC24, Lilit Karapetyan, MD (@KarapetLilit) presents promising results for advanced #melanoma with TIL therapy. The study shows 36% of patients experienced a positive response to the therapy. Learn more ➡️ #MoffittSITC24 @sitcancer
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Congratulations to Drs. Jessica Islam (@jessicayislam) and Arnold Etame for their acceptance into the second cohort of Scholars for @theNCI Early Investigator Advancement Program.
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Ben Creelan, MD (@BenCreelan) presents updated results from a multicenter phase 2 trial of lifileucel plus pembrolizumab in patients with checkpoint inhibitor-naive metastatic NSCLC. #SITC24 #MoffittSITC24 @sitcancer #LateBreakingAbstract
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“Bob was a brilliant and innovative scientist who generously shared his talent and creativity with everyone who had the pleasure of working with him. He was a wonderful friend and colleague who will be deeply missed,” said Dr. Bob Gatenby.
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At #ASH24, Ciara Freeman, MD (@freemanlciaraMD) presented a new CAR T-cell therapy that shows high success rates and manageable side effects for advanced #MultipleMyeloma. Read more: @ASH_hematology #ASH24
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In 2015, Al Wilson was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer and was told he had six months to live. Four years later and with Moffitt by his side, Al says he's never felt better! The @RaysBaseball are honored to have Al in attendance tonight for Salute to Survivors.
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Congratulations to the Charles C. Williams, Jr., MD Physician of the Year Dr. Michael Nieder!
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Congratulation to @moffittnews clinical fellow Dr. Busra Shariff for winning the ASCO #GI23 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium Merit Award for her work in FGFR2-amplified gastroesophageal adenocarcinoma.
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World, meet Vikki Pinkos. ✓ Registered Nurse.✓ Moffitt Recovery Room Nurse.✓ Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Survivor.✓ Mother
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LIVE from #SITC24: Alex Jaeger, PhD (@ajaeger40) joins Greg Sawyer, PhD (@ProfGregSawyer) to discuss the engineering immune oncology workshop and the research his lab is doing for lung cancer treatment. #MoffittSITC24. Learn more ➡️ @sitcancer
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.@WapaTV’s @keyllitai will share her #lungcancer story at the FREE Latinos y el cancer symposium 10/8 at #Moffitt. 813-745-1988.
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Thank you to the nearly 11,000 participants who made the 19th Annual #MilesForMoffitt unforgettable! Together, we’ve raised $1.2M for lifesaving cancer research—and there’s still time to help. Fundraising stays open through January! Donate now at 💙
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You go girls! These second graders from Wesley Chapel Elementary School raised money so cancer patients who couldn't afford a wig would be able to pick one out from Moffitt’s Magnolia’s Salon. Thanks to their generosity two patients will soon be sporting new hairdos!
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Football season is here! Wishing our partners at @USFFootball all the best this season #GoBulls #HornsUp
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The flight from Puerto Rico carrying patients, caregivers, and cancer tissue samples touched down in Tampa this evening. #PuertoRicoLevanta
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Missing Margie? Our front desk extraordinaire has been battling lung cancer and rang the bell today as she received her last radiation treatment. Read More: #TeamMargie
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Tonight is the 28th Annual Magnolia Ball! This evening is a celebration; of courageous patients, of the extraordinary work of scientists and physicians and of new discoveries. 💙 #MoffittMagnolia
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Yay Joshua! Represent! 💜⚡️ #BoltsFightCancer #GoBolts.
#Bolts fans, please welcome tonight’s @budlight #BoltsSocial captain, Ewing’s sarcoma survivor & @MoffittNews employee Joshua Rivera! 💜⚡️ #EDMvsTBL
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Thank you @TBLightning for $25,000 raised through the 50/50 raffles - and for your continued support of our mission! #BoltsFightCancer
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