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Clinical Articles / BY: David Malfair, MD July/August 2003
... on T1-weighted images ( Figure 2 ). A margin of 5 mm between the nearest tumor and the mesorectal fascia has ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Norman Phillips MSc July/August 2003
... very effective at detecting polyps and preventing cancer, [5]  but can detect cancers at earlier, more treatable stages ... cases only. Screen-detected cancers are assumed to incur a 5-percentage-point benefit in cure and mortality rates ... (confirmed by colonoscopy) have follow-up colonoscopies in 5 years, which, if negative, exempt the individual from ...
Clinical Articles / BY: P. Terry Phang, MD September 2003
... is associated with the lowest published recurrence rates—5% to 10%—for rectal cancer management. [1-4]  Surgeon ... envelope as a significant predictor of recurrent cancer. [5,6]  Recent large rectal cancer trials in the Netherlands ... lymph nodes than community hospitals, 7.8 ± 6 vs 6.8 ± 5,  P  = 0.04. High-volume rectal cancer hospitals assessed ...
Clinical Articles / BY: P. Terry Phang, MD September 2003
... published by the National Institutes of Health. [5]  Adjuvant postoperative radiation and chemotherapy were ... by anterior resection, 33% by abdominoperineal resection, 5% by Hartmann’s procedure, and 0.6% by proctocolectomy (in ... Local excision and polypectomy were each performed in 5% of rectal cancers. Abdominoperineal resection was ...
Clinical Articles / BY: P. Terry Phang, MD September 2003
... The tumor is located on the posterior wall of the rectum 5 cm from the anal verge. By palpation the tumor is mobile ... has been shown to decrease local recurrence to 4% to 5% in prospective national Dutch and Swedish trials. [1,2] ... associated with increased local recurrence ( Table 2 ). [5]  However, when we attempted to assess the presence of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: C.J.H. van de Velde, MD, PhD, FRCS, FRCPS September 2003
... radiotherapy also improved the rate of survival at 5 years. [4]  The results of a large meta-analysis [5]  strengthened the idea that the combination of ... resections showed a cumulative risk of local recurrence at 5 years of 2.7% and overall corrected survival of 87.5% at 5 ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Kathy McInnes, BSc(Pharm) September 2003
... to the usually cited range of 0.6 nmol/L to 2.6 nmol/L (0.5 nmol/L to 2 ng/mL). [3] Doses in women should probably be ... had more reported adverse effects to digoxin than men. [5] Drug interactions are a potential concern with concurrent ...
Letters / BY: H. Ewart Woolley, MD September 2003
... to the university and college classroom ( BCMJ 2003;45[5]:210 ). He has experienced both systems and witnessed the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: John R. Graham, PhD October 2003
... classes, Pharmacare managers claim annualized savings of $5 million for angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors ... May 1999 were between $7.3 million and $8.7 million. [5]  There is no published independent estimate of financial ... Potashnik in the BC Ministry of Health stated savings of $5 million, presumably during the first year. [6] In the midst ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Daniel W.L. Lai, PhD October 2003
... were summed to form a Social Support Index ranging from 5 to 15, with a higher score representing a higher level of ... were asked to indicate their levels of agreement using a 5-point scale ranging from “strongly disagree” to ... The answers were coded to form a sum ranging from 1 to 5, with a higher score indicating a stronger belief in ...