Transcript
A (0:17)
Welcome to Derms on Drugs, a video podcast brought to you by Scholars in Medicine. Derms on Drugs is where cutting edge derm meets low grade to mediocre comedy. I'm Matt Cyrus, and each week I'm joined by my residency buddies Laura Faris and Tim Patton, where we use our 60 years of combined derm experience to discuss, debate, and dissect the hottest topics in dermatology. Everything you need to know to be on the cutting edge of derm, and it'll be the most fun you've ever had while actually learning something useful. Tune in every Friday and visit us at Scholars in Medicine, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts. So let's go ahead and get into it. We've got a special episode this week, so we're going to cover six articles that we thought were the most interesting in the literature in the recent weeks. And we are going to start off by jumping right into Dr. Ferris with our first article. Dr. Farris, take it away.
B (1:18)
All right, so the paper that I have is in JID Innovations, and it is. I'm going to totally butcher the name Mag Lakitas et al. But this is surgical debulking modifies notch signaling and may improve vismotagib effectiveness for locally advanced basal cell carcinoma. So this is not a huge study.
A (1:43)
Wait, for just a second there, I was like, when you're like, I'm going to butcher this, I'm like, it's surgical. The first word is surgical. Like, how are you going to put. What the hell is wrong with you?
B (1:53)
Okay, I could do that.
A (1:54)
Okay.
B (1:55)
Yeah. So basically this is. This was for patients. So this is sort of a small proof of concept. But these are patients who had locally advanced basal cell. And you know, that's a term that gets thrown around a lot since we got drugs approved for it. What's locally advanced? And it's like, I don't know if it's like half your aila. Is that locally advanced? I mean, these are like, locally advanced. These are big tumors, if you look at, you know, in the paper. So like 5, 6, 9 centimeters. Okay.
A (2:26)
If you've watched the show, the Last of us, is that the one with the fungus that comes out of people? That is what this woman's back looks like.
C (2:34)
That's exact. I thought the same exact thing.
A (2:37)
It is just. It's a fungating lesion.
B (2:40)
I do not watch TV like you two do. So I will take it at your.
