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Premise / BY: Cara L. McCulloch, MD July/August 2023
... putting enormous strain on the global health care system.[ 1 ] Physical activity is a well-established and highly ...
Editorials / BY: Jennifer J. Telford, MD, MPH, FRCPC, CAGF, FACG July/August 2023
... which have informed clinical practice guidelines in BC.[ 1 , 2 ] Our goal is to review the source literature and ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: Laura Gentile, RD, MHA July/August 2023
... cause of cancer death. It will affect approximately 1 in 14 men and 1 in 16 women during their lifetime.[ 1 ] Screening for colorectal cancer detects cancer at an ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: James R. Gray, MD, FRCPC July/August 2023
... age, with incidence rising abruptly after age 50 [ Figure 1 ].[ 1 , 2 ] Hence, most screening guidelines suggest initiation ... diagnoses and deaths over the past 20 years [ Figure 4 ].[ 1 ] This is attributed partly to screening programs that have ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: David F. Schaeffer, MD, FRCPC July/August 2023
... which the BC Colon Screening Program has adopted.[ 1 ] Pathogenesis of colorectal cancer There are three ... lesions, and traditional serrated adenomas [ Table 1 ];[ 2 ] and hereditary predisposition syndromes (e.g., ... mutations in BRAF and KRAS play a prominent role [ Figure 1 ].[ 4 ] Each of the overarching pathways gives rise to ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: Jennifer E. Nuk, MSc, CGC, CCGC July/August 2023
... colorectal cancer syndrome were updated in 2022.[ 1 ] The recommendations incorporate an updated review of the ... but remain unchanged from the previous guidelines [ Table 1 ]. In 2018, the Banff Consensus, developed by the Canadian ... individuals without a family history of colorectal cancer: 1.37 (95% CI, 0.76-2.46) in pooled cohort studies. The ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Kaitlyn Kwok September 2023
... and organ dysfunction due to a suspected infection.[ 1 ] It is estimated that there are upward of 45 million ... characteristics of patients are presented in Table 1 . The number of sepsis cases was 200 (~100/year) pre-COVID ... third year of COVID. The ICD code for COVID-19 took effect 1 April 2020. During all 3 years of COVID-19, a total of 46 ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: A. Cherukupalli, MD, MHSc September 2023
... reactions to NSAIDs (e.g., aspirin, ibuprofen, naproxen).[ 1 ] The triad of symptoms is also referred to as Samter’s ... in arachidonic acid biosynthesis. Through the COX-1 and 5-lipoxygenase pathways, there is an overproduction of ... prostaglandin E2. Without the inhibitory effect of the COX-1 pathway by-products, a pro-inflammatory environment is ...
Premise / BY: Gerald J.M. Tevaarwerk, MD, FRCPC September 2023
... in consultation with BC Family Doctors and Doctors of BC.[ 1 ] It addresses the lack of adequate paid time per patient ... cause of the difficulty finding a family physician. Table 1 presents a comparison of fee-for-service in 1982 versus ... interactions; and (c) the physician’s patient panel.”[ 1 ] The new model compensates family physicians with a ...
Premise / BY: Susan M. Lee, MD, FRCPC, MAS November 2023
... three of her patients died of nosocomial COVID, all within 1 week. To the undiscerning observer looking at the ... levels of COVID transmission in the inpatient setting.[ 1 ] The original search of Medline, Embase, and LitCovid was ... (larger and smaller). SARS-CoV-2 is thought to be around 0.1 μm. All 11 studies showed that portable HEPA purifiers ...