February 2013 - 21 articles
The past decade has witnessed an increase in cancer survival rates[...]
Background: A growing body of evidence is demonstrating that the nitrogen-containing bisphosphonate zoledronic acid (zol) improves clinical outcomes in various cancer settings, including multiple myeloma. Those findings provided the rationale for con...
Background: We evaluated clinical practice guideline (cpg) recommendations from Cancer Care Ontario’s Program in Evidence-Based Care (pebc) for molecularly targeted systemic treatments (tts) and subsequent funding decisions from the Ontario Ministry...
Consider this scenario: A 35-year-old recently married woman is referred to a surgeon because of a growing breast lump. After a core biopsy shows cancer, she undergoes mastectomy for a 6-cm invasive lobular cancer that has spread to 8 axillary nodes....
Background: Neurocognitive impairments from brain tumours may interfere with the ability to drive safely. In 9 of 13 Canadian provinces and territories, physicians have a legal obligation to report patients who may be medically unfit to drive. To com...
Although primary liver cancer is rare, its incidence rate has been rising quickly in Canada, more than tripling since the early 1980s. This cancer is more common in men than women, and the age-specific incidence rates in men have been increasing sign...
Gastrointestinal fistulae can occur in ovarian cancer patients, usually in the setting of advanced relapsed disease. Treatment typically involves immediate surgery. Here, we describe a case of an abscess resulting from an intestinal fistula as the fi...
Avascular necrosis (avn) of the hip is a well-documented side effect of corticosteroid therapy, but it has also been described as a complication of radiation and chemotherapy. Many prostate cancer patients undergo treatment with all three of those th...
Human papilloma viruses (hpvs) are causally linked to cervical, head-and-neck, and oral cancers. [...]
The recent article by Wong et al. was highly interesting[...]
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