September 2023 Newsletter (PDF)

List of topics:

• Wait times & access to radiation therapy for rectal cancer surgery patients
• Patient reported outcomes in breast cancer
• Management of colorectal liver metastases
• Transforming breast cancer care: the South Island Integrated Breast Cancer Program
  
• Criteria for adjuvant therapy for stage II melanoma
• Surgery Network Travel Award recipients
• Surgical oncology & gynecologic oncology fellows introductions
• Mismatch repair testing in gastrointestinal cancers: an essential insight
• PRRT for small bowel neuroendocrine tumours
• Spring update summary 2022/2023

References for Issue 39, September 2023 (PDF)

November 2022 Newsletter (PDF)

List of topics:

• Regional cancer surgical leads update
• Introduction to chair - CPQA
• Surgery Network Travel Award recipient
• Ovarian cancer prevention with opportunistic salpingectomy
• Fellow introductions
• Clinical trials recruiting
• Update on Merkel cell cancer
• Surgery Network news

References for Issue 38, November 2022 (PDF)

November 2021 Newsletter (PDF)

List of topics:

• Introduction to regional surgical leads, committee chairs, and surgical oncology fellow
• Sentinel lymph node biopsy for melanoma in B.C.
• Travel Award recipients
• Multidisciplinary cancer conference for rectal cancer patients
• Oncologic liver transplant
• Endoscopy update: sessile serrated lesions - new names, same challenges
• Network news - introduction to Surgery Network team

References for Issue 37, November 2021 (PDF)

September 2020 Newsletter (PDF)

List of topics:

• Covid-19 Surgical Oncology Transfer Network on the UBC reticulum website
• Breast implant associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma
• Genetic testing for newly diagnosed breast cancer patients
• Surgery Network news
  

Spring 2019 Newsletter (PDF)

List of topics:

• Highlights from the Fall Update 2018
• Management of epithelial lacrimal gland malignancies
• A ten-year study on duct excision and galactography
• Age related pathological differences in differentiated thyroid cancer
• Shared care/communication key for primary care providers
• Surgery Network news
  

Fall 2018 Newsletter (PDF)

List of topics:

• Sentinel node biopsy in women 70 years +
• Contralateral prophylactic mastectomy
• 2014 SSO-ASTRO invasive breast margins guidelines impact
• Re-excision rates following breast conservation surgery
• Surgery Network news and upcoming conferences
  

Spring 2018 Newsletter (PDF)

List of topics:

• New surgical oncology leader
• Highlights from the Fall Update 2017
• Pan-Canadian surgery standards
• Breast cancer management
• Network news
• 2018 Fall Update October 13th - endocrine and head & neck
  

Summer 2017 Newsletter (PDF)

List of topics:

• Anterior rectal wall biopsy and vigorous APC are associated with recto-urethral fistulas after prostate
• Position statement from the SON breast tumour group: axillary ultrasound in breast cancer
  

Summer 2016 Newsletter

List of topics:

• Highlights from the SON Fall Update 2015
• New Heuristics for the Management of Thyroid Nodules in Children
• Recent Articles of Interest
• Cancer-Care Resources for Family Physicians in BC

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