Cancer is not only the most prevalent but one of the most critical ailments, and the growing malignancy burden around the globe stimulates the expansion of the oncology field. Against this backdrop, Tatiana Prowell and Vincent Rajkumar have emerged as the most influential oncology experts based on the Global Score among the top 20 experts during the first half (H1) of 2023, reveals the Social Media Analytics Platform of GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.
Global Score is calculated based on weights assigned to parameters like average content engagements, follower network, number of times other Influencers tracked by GlobalData have referred them in content, and content relevancy.
Tatiana Prowell, an American medical oncologist and expert in the field of breast cancer, shared mostly updates on topics like breast cancer, clinical trial, neoplasm and chemotherapy. She had a Global Score of 96 in H1 2023. One of her most popular tweets on oncology during H1 2023 was:
Vincent Rajkumar, Professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic, with a global score of 96, mostly tweets about topics like multiple myeloma, chemotherapy, immunotherapy, myeloma cast nephropathy, and neoplasm. Rajkumar also supervises clinical, epidemiological, and experimental research on myeloma and associated diseases.
One of his most popular tweets on oncology: “4/ In suspected newly diagnosed myeloma presenting with acute renal failure: if the serum FLC level is >150mg/dl it’s presumed light chain cast nephropathy. Renal biopsy not needed in most situations.”
Shreyasee Majumder, Social Media Analyst at GlobalData, comments: “Oncology related medical conferences have emerged as one of the key conversation drivers among the Twitter influencers. The most discussed medical conferences in 2023 were the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting, which was held from 2 to 6 June in Chicago, and the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) annual meeting which was held from 14 to 19 April at Orange County Convention Center Orlando, Florida. The top Twitter influencers who contributed to these conferences were Tatiana Prowell, Vincent Rajkumar, Mark Lewis, Vivek Subbiah, and Stephen V Liu.”
Mark Lewis, Director of Gastrointestinal Oncology at Intermountain Healthcare, ranked third among the top influencers around oncology, with a global score of 94. Additionally, he is a qualified medical practitioner with a focus on oncology and hematology.
Lewis’s one of the popular tweet: “Cancer continues to threaten millions of lives But to witness a stage IV patient enter remission, having received not a drop of chemotherapy but rather immunotherapy, is a near-miracle I didn’t foresee when my career began Not all tears in an oncology clinic are shed in sadness”
