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Clinical Articles / BY: Barbara Poole Lane, MPA May 2008
... 64, mortality rates have de­clined steadily since 1986.[ 1 ] This improvement has been attributed to two main factors: ... cancer epidemiology The lifetime risk of breast cancer is 1 in 9 for women in BC.[ 4 ] Approximately 2700 BC women are ... for population-based screening in 1997.[ 10 ]   Table 1  uses the PHAC format to provide the most re­cent ...
Letters / BY: Karen A. Gelmon, MD, FRCPC September 2008
... and, more recently, evidence for radiation therapy.[ 1 , 2 ] The recommendations of the SMPBC are based on ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Susan Albersheim, MD, FRCPC, PhD, November 2008
... decision-makers for their not-yet-competent children.[ 1 ],[ 2 ] Nested within surrogate decision making is an ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Dan McCarthy, MD January/February 2008
... Services Committee (GPSC) has revised the fee. Effective 1 January 2008, the new Complex Care Fee will include only ... of the following conditions: • Diabetes mellitus (type 1 or 2). • Chronic renal failure (GFR values less than ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Wen Q. Gan, MD, MSc, April 2008
... systemic inflammation, and cardiovascular disease ( Figure 1 ).[ 1 ]  The evidence for these effects comes from strong ... combined with medications, systemic inflammation,[ 1 ] tissue hypoxia, or a combination of these. Low body ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM June 2008
... 9 to 13 years as this is an age prior to sexual activity.[ 1 ] However, even sexually active girls and women are ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Eric Webber, MD, FRCSC, September 2008
... medical education programs are present” (IS-12A).[ 1 ]  This is not only an accreditation requirement but a ... positions, with the need to open a new training site every 1 or 2 years. The newest residency training site opened in ...
Editorials / BY: Robert D. Levy, MD, FRCPC March 2008
... it also produces significant systemic consequences.”[ 1 ] “Preventable,” “treatable,” “inflammatory,” ...
Letters / BY: Joanna Cheek, MD, FRCPC May 2008
... (“Consensus? There is no consensus,”  BCMJ, 2008;50(1):10 , Health Minister George Abbott suggests otherwise. In ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Catherine L. Weber, MD, FRCPC, July/August 2008
... small number who have received kidney transplants.[ 1 ]  The main reason for this discrepancy is the high ... National Kidney Foun­dation recommendations.[ 5 ]  Table 1  lists these stages and several associated conditions that ... or more of these abnormalities can be diagnosed with Stage 1 or 2 CKD. This common misconception has led to unnecessary ...