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Mario M. Leitao, Jr

@leitaomd

2 years

We really need to rethink this immediate availability of results in patient portals especially in oncology! Just had horrible experience with a terrified patient who saw results before I had chance to call her. All or none is horrible for any aspect of medical care

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First baby born in the US today after uterine transposition! Am beyond words. God bless the brave women who have trusted us! It is a privilege to work with such amazing women!

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4 years

Friends grandmom just got her mail in ballot today in NJ! Exciting! Only thing is - she died 15 years ago!

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4 years

First robotic uterine transposition done today in courageous young woman with rectal cancer who will get pelvic RT. We hope this will give her chance to have children. Thank you @JennyMueller_ @reitanribeiro ! @TeamEndo_MSK

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2 years

Another uterine transposition placed back in a brave young woman. Humbling how brave our patients are and how much trust they put in us. Prayers for a big family for her. Fortunate to be able to do this with my partner ⁦ @JennyMueller_ ⁩

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3 years

Uterine transposition on our 4th brave young woman! Great to be doing this with my partner! Dr. Mueller

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3 years

Second uterine transposition done today! Brave 19 year old! Hoping she may have many children in future! Done together with ⁦ @JennyMueller_ ⁩ !

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2 years

It’s here!! What a privilege it was to work on this with the amazing @Frumovitz and Dr. Ramalingam! Hope some find value in it! @TeamEndo_MSK @TeamOvary_MSK @IGCSociety @SGO_org

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@MaryanneDemasi @CochraneLibrary @VPrasadMDMPH @TracyBethHoeg @davidzweig @davidemccune @MichaelPSenger @FatEmperor @justin_hart @TexasLindsay_ @DrEliDavid @RWMaloneMD @andrewbostom @thevivafrei @akheriaty @MartyMakary @carlheneghan If masks worked it would crystal clear from a meta-analysis of 600K+ cases and not “unclear”. They do not work

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@leitaomd

1 year

MSKCC International Fellowship Program is now the first and only ESGO certified program in the US! So excited and important in our commitment to international education and collaboration!! @ESGO_society @NicoloBizzarri @TeamEndo_MSK @TeamOvary_MSK @MSKEducation @aburustummd

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2 years

Our 5th uterine transposition today for wonderful young woman with rectal cancer! Went great. Hope it works for her.

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@leitaomd

1 year

Was great privilege and honor to have served on the Board for these past 3 years! All should consider volunteering to this wonderful society! ⁦ @IGCSociety ⁩

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@leitaomd

2 years

Completely ignoring The Science!

Michael P Senger

@michaelpsenger

2 years

When asked if the CDC will revise its guidance to mandate masks in schools in light of the Cochrane review showing masks do not curb COVID, CDC Director Walensky tells Congress its advice on child masking will never change. “Our masking guidance doesn’t really change with time.”

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Mario M. Leitao, Jr

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1 year

Got such amazing news yesterday! One of wonderful women who was treated for rectal cancer who let us do uterine transposition is 10 weeks pregnant spontaneously!

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@leitaomd

2 years

Just another Wednesday in between cases at the Josie Robertson Surgical Center balcony! Hoping to make a difference ⁦ @MSKCancerCenter ⁩ ⁦ @TeamEndo_MSK ⁩ ⁦ @TeamOvary_MSK ⁩

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Mario M. Leitao, Jr

@leitaomd

2 years

HRT is so needlessly underutilized in many of our young women with GYN malignancies for unsubstantiated “concerns”! And we likely remove ovaries in way too many women for the same “unsubstantiated concerns”

IJGC

@IJGConline

2 years

💊 #Hormone replacement therapy among cervical cancer patients experiencing #premature #menopause 🥵due to #therapy @yetii18 @amitak10 @pedroramirezMD @agz_eriksson @AndreFernandes2 @JayrajAarthi @OncoAlert @BonaldoGiulio @HsuMd

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Mario M. Leitao, Jr

@leitaomd

3 years

@NBSaphierMD The masks at school thing is so crazy. Example last night had daughter Vball game. None of the players using masks and huffing and puffing from running around yet the AD was a nazi with the few kids sitting in stands to mask up and then they all were together maskless outside!

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Mario M. Leitao, Jr

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3 years

Another workday view

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Mario M. Leitao, Jr

@leitaomd

2 years

Greatest privilege of my career to be a part @of the education of future of GYN ONC!! I love ‘em all in this pic and the many more who aren’t in pic tonight!

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@leitaomd

3 years

One of my many goals: train the next generation of GYN ONCS to be the best and be 1000x better than us so I can retire ASAP!!

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Mario M. Leitao, Jr

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1 year

Life is short. Life is precious. Love and accept all. Don’t hate. Have a beautiful weekend. Enjoy and hug family and friends.

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Mario M. Leitao, Jr

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2 years

Fun Saturday morning with our fellows and helping them be better surgeons! ⁦ @TeamEndo_MSK ⁩ ⁦ @TeamOvary_MSK ⁩

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@leitaomd

2 years

Amazing group meeting discussing current topics in endometrial cancer care and future directions! We were at Mayo but also with MD Anderson colleagues. ⁦ @TeamEndo_MSK ⁩ ⁦ @TeamOvary_MSK ⁩ ⁦ @MayoClinic ⁩ ⁦ @MDAndersonNews ⁩

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2 years

My twins. I am a blessed person!

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Mario M. Leitao, Jr

@leitaomd

4 years

Got the best fellows in the world! This was surprise I found in my office this morning that they left! Put a big smile on my face!

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Mario M. Leitao, Jr

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1 year

What a privilege to be PD for a group a future GYN ONc leaders!! Love my job!!

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1 year

Pool party with fellows! So fun to spend time outside work!

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Mario M. Leitao, Jr

@leitaomd

3 years

Flight home cancelled so making best of it in San Fran with ⁦ @zivanovicmd ⁩

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Mario M. Leitao, Jr

@leitaomd

2 years

We have the best fellows and I am privileged to be their PD and am so proud! 4 plenaries, 3 focused plenaries, 4 featured posters and 8 posters for @SGO_org annual meeting in Tampa in March!! See you all there! @TeamEndo_MSK @TeamOvary_MSK @MSKCancerCenter #SGO2023

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@leitaomd

3 years

What an amazing day with some of my partners and fellows at Columbia Skills Lab! ⁦ @TeamEndo_MSK ⁩ ⁦ @TeamOvary_MSK ⁩ ⁦ @aburustummd ⁩

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@leitaomd

2 years

We have the only long standing and continuous International GYN ONC Fellowship in the US! It is the best thing ever! Dr. Sarah Ehmann graduating and going to Germany. Dr. Yeoshoua will go to Israel!

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Mario M. Leitao, Jr

@leitaomd

1 year

Prom night! Feels like yesterday when I brought home my baby twins! So many emotions. I love you!

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Mario M. Leitao, Jr

@leitaomd

2 years

Me neither

Nicole Saphier, MD

@NBSaphierMD

2 years

It’s July 4th and there is no place I’d rather be! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 @OutnumberedFNC

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@leitaomd

3 years

need to ask that reviewers stop asking for power analyses in retrospective cohort series. It is nonsensical as retrospective analyses are merely hypothesis generating and there is nothing to be done about power. Can provide references. Folks really don’t understand “power”!

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Mario M. Leitao, Jr

@leitaomd

3 years

Laparoscopic lab today for our fellows! ⁦ @aburustummd ⁩ ⁦ @KaraLongRoche ⁩ ⁦ @sonodamd ⁩ ⁦ @VanceBroach ⁩ ⁦ @TeamEndo_MSK ⁩

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Mario M. Leitao, Jr

@leitaomd

4 years

This is not good science. The confounding bias is enormous! People were essentially non-existent in NYC by time face mask use “started” mans everything was already closed down. Not proof of anything

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@ZekeEmanuel

4 years

This new study confirms we have to make face mask-wearing the norm-> 99% compliance. As I + co-authors wrote, need to make mask-wearing easy and expected. Part of that takes leadership that walks the walk and listens to the science.

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Mario M. Leitao, Jr

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2 years

Such a great group of fellows! Wrapping up laparoscopic lab

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Mario M. Leitao, Jr

@leitaomd

2 years

What an honor to have Dr. Karen Lu sharing her career and advice with us!! ⁦ @OncLive ⁩ ⁦ @MDAndersonNews ⁩ ⁦ @TeamEndo_MSK ⁩ ⁦ @TeamOvary_MSK ⁩ ⁦ @SGO_org ⁩ ⁦ @IGCSociety ⁩

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Mario M. Leitao, Jr

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9 months

Enjoy all!!

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Mario M. Leitao, Jr

@leitaomd

2 years

Last Fellows Program Dinner with our 4 amazing graduating fellows! Drs. Kimberly Dessources, Sarah Ehmann, Lea Moukarzel and Sarah Kim!! Will miss you tremendously! So proud of you. You will do amazing things for women with cancer!! @TeamEndo_MSK @TeamOvary_MSK

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1 year

What an epic day yesterday! Grand rounds with Dr. Jalid Sehouli and site visitors ⁦ @NicoloBizzarri ⁩ and Ignacio Zapardiel and Valentina Gerardi. Fingers crossed we get accepted as first ESGO accredited fellowship in US!!

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2 years

Let’s go! ⁦ @IGCSociety ⁩ 2022!

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Mario M. Leitao, Jr

@leitaomd

3 years

What an experience having ⁦ @aburustummd ⁩ going over the details of a Type C rad hyst and identifying all the spaces! ⁦ @TeamEndo_MSK ⁩

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Mario M. Leitao, Jr

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1 year

With family in Greece!

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Mario M. Leitao, Jr

@leitaomd

2 years

Update from the innovator On uterine transposition! #IGCS2022 ⁦ @IGCSociety ⁩

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@leitaomd

3 years

MSK fellowship meeting

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Mario M. Leitao, Jr

@leitaomd

11 months

Life is great to be friends like this!

Glauco Baiocchi

@glaucobaiocchi

11 months

Meeting amazing friends during @sbco_oficial meeting in Rio!! Best part of the meeting!! @pedroramirezMD @leitaomd @guguitmann @sbco_oficial @IJGConline @IGCSociety @br_gynoncgroup

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Mario M. Leitao, Jr

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7 months

Best fellows anywhere!!

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Mario M. Leitao, Jr

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3 years

Wait for this one!!! ⁦ @EmelineAvikiMD ⁩ #SGOMtg

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Mario M. Leitao, Jr

@leitaomd

2 years

Even patient said this is horrible and should not be happening

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Mario M. Leitao, Jr

@leitaomd

3 years

Can we PLEASE stop doing routine “follow-up” imaging of uterine fibroids in women with no symptoms! AYYYY!!

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Mario M. Leitao, Jr

@leitaomd

3 years

Cheapest way is to simply open RP space and find ureter. Takes 30sec per side to do this. Near impossible to injure something u can see. Cystoscopy use should be selective never routine.

Vaidehi Mujumdar, MD

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Cost-effectiveness of agents used for evaluation of ureteral patency during intraoperative cystoscopy in gynecologic and urogynecologic surgery - American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology

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Mario M. Leitao, Jr

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2 years

Sending off our so amazing graduating fellows!!!

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Mario M. Leitao, Jr

@leitaomd

4 years

Folks need to stop doing Pap smears after total hysterectomy!

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Mario M. Leitao, Jr

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3 years

First Live Program Directors Meeting at SGO in years!!! So awesome!

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Mario M. Leitao, Jr

@leitaomd

3 years

Am sitting here and thinking about how precious and beautiful this Short time we have is so short! Please be kind and respectful to all no matter color, race, gender, gender preference, ethnicity, etc! We are all humans trying to enjoy our short existence.

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Mario M. Leitao, Jr

@leitaomd

1 year

An amazing group of fellows! My privilege to be the PD here! ⁦ @TeamOvary_MSK ⁩ ⁦ @TeamEndo_MSK ⁩

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@leitaomd

2 years

Thinking of my mom and dad on this Labor Day weekend who worked hard to give me and my sisters the promise of America as immigrants! Dad lifelong member of the Heavy and General Laborers Union Local 462 out of Newark!! Mom a Teamster!

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@leitaomd

7 months

Am at SGO Fellowship Director meeting and am so proud to see 5 of our prior fellows as Program directors at big programs!! Success is measured by the success of others you have had the privilege to train

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@leitaomd

2 months

We will be interviewing for a position for our International GYN ONC program early this coming year for a start July 2026. We are only program jn US that is ESGO certified. If interested or have great young doctors you mentor then do send applications to surfellowships @mskcc .org

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@leitaomd

2 years

@drdonsdizon That’s because none of this has rationale and it makes no difference my man

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Mario M. Leitao, Jr

@leitaomd

3 years

Opening session of IGCS! Gonna have it on whole at work today. Downside of virtual but will be outstanding presentations! #IGCS2021

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@leitaomd

3 years

Oh yea! Christmas in NY!!

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@leitaomd

3 years

Awesome to have partner ⁦ @JennyMueller_ ⁩ to be doing uterine transposition program with!!

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4 years

Can’t believe been 16 years since completing fellowship! Have been blessed with amazing mentors! ⁦ @RichBarakatMD ⁩

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Mario M. Leitao, Jr

@leitaomd

4 years

Another thing we need to stop: routine TVUS at time of annual gyn exam in an asymptomatic patient. The amount of anxiety created by finding a small “complex” cyst is just too much!

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4 years

The first MSKCC Alliance RCT completed! We hoped results would be different but important to put out whatever result! Hope you find useful. Peace to all!! @MSKCC_Library @TeamEndo_MSK @TeamOvary_MSK @MSKBiostats @MSKEducation

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Mario M. Leitao, Jr

@leitaomd

3 years

Another ask—- PLEASE stop with the routine ultrasounds of women who are asymptomatic just because they are on tamoxifen

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Mario M. Leitao, Jr

@leitaomd

9 months

Yes too much too soon and add -“retract and never add”

IJGC

@IJGConline

9 months

#FIGO 2023 #EndometrialCancer staging: too much, too soon? @CPHpath @FIGOHQ ✅ @pedroramirezMD @HsuMd @JayrajAarthi @AndreFernandes2 @IGCSociety @ESGO_society @ENYGO_official @OncoAlert @IJGCfellows @GynMe4

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3 years

Just got to our place in Cabo!! See y’all in a week. Nothing can bug me this week!! Peace and love! Happy Easter and Passover!!

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@leitaomd

2 years

I’m sorry, but we are jumping the gun with some of the molecular results and changing practice- we reported on recurrences 17% in POLE cases!! Clinical outcomes of patients with POLE mutated endometrioid endometrial cancer - PubMed

Clinical outcomes of patients with POLE mutated endometrioid endometrial cancer - PubMed

Patients with POLE EDM EEC have been shown to have a favorable prognosis. In this real-world cohort of patients, de novo metastatic disease and recurrences in initially uterine-confined cases were...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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@leitaomd

3 years

MSK fellow ⁦ @BillzamMD ⁩ giving plenary! #SGOMtg ⁦ @gynoncjnls ⁩ ⁦ @SGO_org ⁩

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3 years

Always bittersweet doing last case with one of the fellows! Here today the amazing ⁦Dr. Kimberly Dessources! Amazing surgeon and doctor!

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Mario M. Leitao, Jr

@leitaomd

4 years

Awesome talk by Dr. Kemi Doll at MSKCC Department of Surgery Grand Rounds.

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Mario M. Leitao, Jr

@leitaomd

2 months

we do not use, it is not endorsed by multiple societies and groups, and needs to be corrected

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Nice presentation of FIGO 2023 #endometrialcancer staging. From a review in @NatRevClinOncol . @jahow514

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2 months

Baby Hudson Makes History | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Baby Hudson Makes History

Learn about Dana and the uterine transposition surgery at MSK in NYC, that enabled her to give birth to a baby named Hudson, who made history.

www.mskcc.org

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@leitaomd

3 years

Our amazing group of MSKCC GYN ONC fellows!! @TeamOvary_MSK @TeamEndo_MSK @KaraLongRoche

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Mario M. Leitao, Jr

@leitaomd

5 years

I am so humbled and honored to have been invited to do this. Dr. Lele is a true leader, mentor, and inspiration to us.

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1 year

So proud!!

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@leitaomd

4 years

Don’t fragment tumors

MSKCC Team Uterus

@TeamEndo_MSK

4 years

Tumor fragmentation (manually or by morcellation) in Stage I Uterine Leiomyosarcoma was investigated by #TeamEndoMSK . Our data determined fragmentation was associated with a significantly higher risk of recurrence and a nearly 4x increase in peritoneal recurrence vs non-frag.

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@leitaomd

1 year

First Robot Assisted DIEP flap harvest at MSK!

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Mario M. Leitao, Jr

@leitaomd

3 years

Not a bad office view. Ladybug outside window. Gonna be a great day in OR

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Mario M. Leitao, Jr

@leitaomd

2 years

No reason for frozen section in these young patients. Take out mass and wait for final.

@GynOncJnls

@gynoncjnls

2 years

Intra-operative #frozen #section incorrect in nearly 40% of #pediatric and #adolescent malignant #ovarian #germcelltumors 🚨 @ISGynP @StolleryKids @BostonChildrens @DanaFarber @SGO_org @IGCSociety @ESGO_society @SickKidsNews @OncoAlert

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4 years

This is framed on my wall in my office. Great respect for this! Definite landmark study!! Let’s please learn from it and not prematurely end MIS for all cervix cancer cases.

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@leitaomd

1 year

Please stop with the routine uterine ultrasound for “monitoring” of patients on tamoxifen!!

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Mario M. Leitao, Jr

@leitaomd

2 years

Dear @SGO members, would be my privilege and honor to serve on SGO Board. Elections open and please vote for whomever you think best.

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@leitaomd

3 years

Was simply so amazing to be able to be together last night to celebrate our graduating fellows. Congrats to Dr. Renee Cowan, Dr. Evan Smith, Dr. Charles Ashley, Dr. Dib Sassine and Dr. Thomas Boerner! All superstars! I will miss you! ⁦ @TeamOvary_MSK ⁩ ⁦ @TeamEndo_MSK ⁩

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@leitaomd

11 months

use of robot does not adversely affect oncologic outcomes as published by some. Enjoy

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@leitaomd

3 years

Great debate on HIPEC! #igcs2021

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Mario M. Leitao, Jr

@leitaomd

9 months

Medellín with ⁦ @RParejaGineOnco ⁩ and Angelica Nogueira!

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Mario M. Leitao, Jr

@leitaomd

6 years

Took my daughter to work today! Not sure who is happier?? 😀

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@leitaomd

1 year

Full house at Rare Tumor Session! ⁦ @IGCSociety ⁩ #IGCS2023

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@leitaomd

3 years

Never ending - seeing yet again another woman who had a “routine” US with “complex ovary cyst” and totally freaked out. PLEASE STOP with the “let’s check” US! You are doing harm

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@leitaomd

3 years

Another brave young woman allowed us to do our 3rd uterine transposition today! 3rd in US too I believe? Not sure if anyone else out there has done in US. @JennyMueller_ @reitanribeiro

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@leitaomd

2 years

Am truly happy and honored to be with an amazing group of doctors working to improve care in Egypt! ⁦ @Baselrefky ⁩

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@leitaomd

2 years

For anyone who treats or is interested in these rare cancers. Great collaboration with ⁦⁦ @Frumovitz ⁩ and Dr Ramalingan as wells as other colleagues. Hope it is useful. Diagnosis and Treatment of Rare Gynecologic Cancers #Amazon