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Physician Spotlight / BY: Angus Rae, MB, FRCPC November 2010
... of its liberation by Canadian Arm­ed Forces on 5 May 1945 from Nazi Germany. These celebrations were ... dialyzed with the rotating drum, 12 of whom survived.[ 5 , 6 ] In 1956 Dr Henry left to work in Prince George and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: P. Terry Phang, MD December 2010
... local recurrence from colon cancer is estimated at 5% to 10%.  Factors contributing to a higher rate of local ... to 11% from 27% after follow-up for a minimum of 5 years.[ 3 ]  The combination of short-course preoperative ... adjuvant postoperative chemotherapy for Stage 3 cancers.[ 5 ] Step 3: Education program  To implement the new ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Lauren MacDonald, BScH, MSc, December 2010
... and social consequences of their cancer experience.[ 1-5 ]  Many of these survivors are unaware of the specific ... neoplasms among a population-based cohort of 2322 5-year survivors diagnosed in BC before 20 years of age; 15 ... over the normal population was 1.3% at 15 years, 2.5% at 20 years, and 4% at 25 years.  The most common second ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Catherine Elliott, MD, December 2010
... of pollutants including fine partic­ulate matter (PM 2.5) and many tox­ic compounds.[ 1 ] Exposure to forest fire ... New Westminster, Burnaby, and Coquitlam, even though PM 2.5 reached only 17.6 ug/m3 ( Figure 2 ). Although the ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Wilma Arruda, MD, December 2010
... of kindergarten children were vulnerable, up from 28.5% in 2008/9.[ 2 ] • “Unnecessary early vulnerability in ... its infants and preschoolers for proper citizenship.”[ 5 ] A century later our own government acknowledges and has ...
MDs To Be / BY: Kristin DeGirolamo, Pharm MD December 2010
... film the procedures, edit, narrate, and finally produce 5- to 7-minute instructional videos. Once produced, these ...
News December 2010
... BC has increased spending on screening mammography by $5.48 million and almost doubled the overall budget for the Screening Mammo­graphy Program since 2001 to $23.5 million.  Although BC has the lowest incidence of breast ...
News&Notes / BY: Gerry Greenstone, MD, December 2010
... of 5183 deaths by the Royal Navy in 1810[ 1 ] revealed 81.5% were ascribed to these causes whereas only 8.3% were ... curative powers of fresh citrus fruits against scurvy.[ 5 ] However, it was Dr Gilbert Blane who finally convinced ...
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