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Premise / BY: Paula B. Gordon, OBC, MD, FRCPC, FSBI May 2023
... density; 36% have category C: heterogeneously dense, which may obscure small masses; and 7% have category D: extremely ... breast tomosynthesis was approved by Health Canada in 2012, and several sites in BC acquired the technology. It is ... a modified mammogram machine, so claustrophobia is not an issue, and it is a fraction of the cost of MRI. However, it ...
Premise / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP January/February 2016
... withdrawing life-sustaining therapy[ 1,2 ] suggest people may be confused about their right to make life-determining ... can help make the individual feel heard and supported. A 2012 systematic review and meta-ethnography of the underlying ... The author is currently guest editing a theme issue on palliative care that she hopes to publish in the  ...
MDs To Be / BY: Ahmad Al-Sarraf, MD, FRCPC, September 2014
Maintaining healthy vision is an important health issue. For many, loss of vision is associated with loss of ... that the high mortality due to the comorbid conditions may partly explain why age-related macular degeneration and ... variety of monofocal intraocular lenses (IOL) until June 2012.[ 8 ] The current standard of care for IOLs is foldable ...