issue of the Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology , Rabeneck et al (5) (pages 131-147) report on the findings of the FIT Guidelines Expert Panel, a group convened to evaluate the latest evidence on the use of FITs and to advise 'ColonCancerCheck,' the Ontario CRC screening program (5)...
The colorectal cancer (CRC) screening project was undertaken by the Medical Advisory Secretariat (MAS) in collaboration with the Cancer Care Ontario (CCO).In November 2007, the Ontario Health Technology Advisory Committee (OHTAC) MAS to conduct an evidence-based analysis of the available data with...
Her symptoms were unresponsive to antiemetics and she presented to the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario emergency room where she was diagnosed with vestibular neuronitis. When her symptoms persisted, she was admitted to hospital and assessed by the Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery service....
My friend Dave just finishedDevil’s Weekwith the Ontario Randonneurs. Here’s a brief description of the event: The series starts on Saturday, June 7th with theBurnstown Cafe 200The route will introduce the randonneurs to the Lanark Highlands, but then return to Kanata along the Ontario side...
The intervention will be implemented at three YMCA sites in south-central Ontario: Downtown Hamilton; Brantford; and Niagara. Ontario is the most populous province in Canada, representing 38% of the nation’s population [52] and the central-south region has the highest prevalence of stroke in ...
of fields (mine included). I did findthis interesting systematic reviewof meta-analyses and randomized trials (this means they looked at a ton of data at several levels using very fancy methods). It asks a very straightforward question: does screening for disease save lives in asymptomatic ...
In early 2019, Ontario transitioned to FIT as the preferred screening test, due its established superior test performance for identifying patients with high risk lesions for colon cancer. AIMS. This single-centre retrospective study analyzed the change in efficacy of detecting advanced lesions, when ...