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Karen A. Gelmon, MD, FRCPC
Background Preoperative diagnosis based on a tissue sample prior to definitive breast surgery for cancer or precancerous lesions is considered the standard of care. To establish a preoperative breast cancer diagnosis,... Read More
The Screening Mammography Program (SMP) has offered British Columbia residents free screening mammograms since 1988. The Canadian benchmark for participation in routine screening mammography every 2 years is 70% of... Read More
We are pleased that our article on breast screening has created the interest and responses you have received. We of course agree with Dr Gardiner that participation rates over 90% would be optimal and have been achieved... Read More
Dr Gordon in her letter correctly highlights that the guidelines published in our recent article in the BCMJ are out of date. When we submitted the manuscript we appended the guidelines as they were at the time... Read More
Even though breast cancer is a major killer of women, especially women age 35 to 64, mortality rates have declined steadily since 1986.[1] This improvement has been attributed to two main factors: • Increased... Read More
The Breast Tumour Group, a provincial multidisciplinary committee of the British Columbia Cancer Agency (BCCA), has developed new guidelines for the use of tamoxifen and aromatase inhibitors (AIs) in adjuvant therapy... Read More
Introduction The role of hormones in the development of cancers has been a point of discussion and dispute for a number of years. Although some causal relationships have been easily proven, such as the role of... Read More