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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: K. Pielak, RN, MSN June 2003
... conjugate vaccine (Prevnar) to infants and children 2 months to 59 months of age at high risk for pneumococcal ... disease and to all aboriginal infants and children 2 months to 59 months of age. • Meningococcal group C-TT ... (NeisVac-C), to individuals of all ages, starting at 2 months of age, who have health conditions that place them ...
Letters / BY: A. Krisman, MD June 2003
... letter “Re: Learning and teaching med,” ( BCMJ 2003;45[2]:72-73 ). I too believe that medical education suffered ...
Letters / BY: Tom Pickles, MD, FRCPC June 2003
... is instituted when the patient is symptomatic, or about 2 years if instituted earlier in the disease course. ... (see, for example, Seidenfeld and colleagues [2] ) have shown that surgical castration is equivalent to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: John H. Hay, MB July/August 2003
... as prolonged high-dose postoperative treatment. [2]  Subsequently, the Swedish Rectal Cancer Trial showed ...
Clinical Articles / BY: David Malfair, MD July/August 2003
... for assessing malignant lymph nodes is 75% to 85%. [2]  Malignant perirectal nodes are well-defined, round, and ... the low-signal muscularis propria is visualized ( Figure 2 ). T3 staging is diagnosed when the tumor penetrates the ... that appears hypointense on T1-weighted images ( Figure 2 ). A margin of 5 mm between the nearest tumor and the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Norman Phillips MSc July/August 2003
... clinical trials at reducing colorectal cancer mortality. [2-4]  FOB is not very effective at detecting polyps and ... using data obtained from the BC Cancer Registry.  Figure 2  shows the obtained agreement between model-predicted and ... rates of endoscopy used in the model are given in  Table 2   [10]  and are based on reported rates from endoscopy ...
Editorials / BY: P. Terry Phang, MD July/August 2003
... the surgical technique total mesorectal excision (TME). [2-4]  The Netherlands, [2]  Sweden, [3]  and Norway [4]  have all achieved marked ...
Editorials / BY: Patricia M. Rebbeck, MB, ChB, FRCSC July/August 2003
... of newly minted young doctors who intend to practise only 2 days a week. I hear of others who allot 4 minutes per ...
Clinical Articles / BY: P. Terry Phang, MD September 2003
... as mean ± 1 standard deviation. Results Tables  1 ,  2 , and  3  give the summary data for gross specimen ... pathology data elements between 1996 and 2000 (Tables 1, 2, and 3). However, radial margin reporting increased from ... have occurred in Sweden, the Netherlands, and Norway [2-4]  from teaching by Dr Heald on the surgical resection of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: P. Terry Phang, MD September 2003
... relative to more recent reports from other centres. [2-4] The British Columbia Cancer Agency (BCCA) provided ... recommended to decrease local recurrence rates for stage 2 and stage 3 rectal cancers ( Table 1 ). Preoperative ... stage 4 cancer had a 17% survival rate (n = 83). Stage 2 and stage 3 cancers had survival rates of 78% and 72%, ...