Cancer

Tokes in the throat: cannabis smoking-related harm in otolaryngology

Tokes in the throat: cannabis smoking-related harm in otolaryngology

By Brendan McNeely and Dr. Amanda Hu on February 9, 2022

Recent evidence has emerged that shows cannabis smoking is related to significant patient morbidity. Namely, cannabis smoke exposure increased the risk of oropharyngeal cancer in a dose-dependent manner. Cannabis use may also be associated with hearing loss, vestibular dysfunction, tinnitus, and sinusitis.

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Screening for occult cancer in unprovoked venous thromboembolism (VTE)

By Drs. Erica Tsang and Iain Mackie on February 17, 2016

An unprovoked venous thromboembolism (VTE), either through a deep venous thrombosis or pulmonary embolism, may be the earliest sign of malignancy. In patients presenting with unprovoked VTE, a limited occult malignancy screening strategy is sufficient, compared to routinely adding CT imaging of the abdomen and pelvis.

MRI

Evolving use of multi parametric MRI in prostate cancer detection

By Dr. Hamidreza Abdi and Dr. Peter Black on May 13, 2015

The prostate is the only organ in the body that is routinely biopsied blindly without visualization of a specific suspected tumour. MRI before prostate biopsy may become routine practice, which should reduce the number of unnecessary biopsies.

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Evaluation of familial cancer risk: it starts at www.screeningbc.ca

By Kristin Turner, MSc, CGC, CCGC on August 27, 2013

Identification of hereditary cancer families in BC is important to provide individuals at elevated cancer risk with appropriate screening and risk management recommendations.

Prostate Specific Antigen – Does the new data support its utility for prostate cancer screening?

By Dr. Peter Black on May 9, 2011

Most of the data on which we base our prostate cancer screening practices is indirect and not definitively linked to the decrease in mortality that has been observed.

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