• Highlights from the Fall Update 2013: Endocrine Surgical Oncology
• New CPD-KT Chair (Elaine McKevitt)
• The Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology
• Commentary on "Current Thyroid Cancer Trends in the United States"
• Breast Cancer Risk Reduction in High Risk Patients
• New OrthoTumour Website
• HIPEC Video Lecture
• SON Resident Travel Award and SON/UBC Summer Student Research Program Recipients
• SON News

Fall 2013 Newsletter (PDF)

List of topics:

• Surgical Oncology Network Continuing Professional Development & Knowledge Transfer Committee
• SON Fall Update 2012 - Malignancies of the Lower GI Tract - Review
• What’s on the BC Cancer website
• Management of Secondary Lymphedema Related to Breast Cancer
• Cancer Survivorship Nurse Practitioner Accepting New Patients
• SON Resident Travel Award and SON/UBC Summer Student Research Program Recipients
• SON News

References:

• Lynch Syndrome Criteria
• Guidelines for Perioperative Care in Elective Colonic Surgery: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS®) Society Recommendations

Winter 2013 Newsletter

• Surgical Oncology Network Research and Outcomes Evaluation Committee
• Colorectal Research at SON.
• Effect of systematic education courses on rectal cancer treatments in a population.
• Addressing the discrepancy in ovarian cancer outcomes across BC.
• Practice Referral Patterns and Outcomes for Patients with Primary Retroperitoneal Sarcoma in BC.
• Determination of Factors Predictive of Outcome for Patients undergoing Pancreaticoduodenectomy of Pancreatic Head Ductal Adenocarcinomas.
• SON Research and Publications.
• Radiation Therapy Following Breast Conserving Surgery: More, Less or Not at All.
• Reflections of the Past - SON Resident Travel Award Recipient.
• SON Travel Award Recipients since 2007.
• SON News and Updates
• Cancer Management Guidelines Utilization Survey of BC Surgeons.

References:

• Radiation Therapy Following Breast Conserving Surgery: More, Less or Not at All.
  
• Summer Student Research Program

• Operate, Radiate or Neither
• Hereditary Cancer Program High Risk Surveillance Clinic
• Highlights from the SON Fall Update 2011 "From Uncommon to Common"
• Highlights from the 12th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Breast Surgeons
• Expediting Timely Referrals to Medical Oncology following Resection for Colon Cancer
• Defining Surgical Oncology in BC
• Cancer Surgery Checklists for Dictated Operative Reports
• Surgical Oncology

References for Summer 2011 Newsletter

• Proximal GI Surgical Tumour Group
• Improving the Hereditary Cancer Program Referral Process
• Ovarian Cancer Prevention: Simple Salpingectomy
• Highlights from the SON Upper GI and Hepatobiliary Cancers Fall Update 2010
• Supporting the Chinese-Speaking Cancer Patients
• Surgical Oncology Network News

Fall 2010

References for Fall 2010 Newsletter

• Who Needs Chemo Before Surgery? Neoadjuvant Systemic Therapy in Breast Cancer
• Best Breast Papers pf 2009
• Highlights from the 11th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Breast Surgeons
• Colonoscopy Quality Assurance
• Summary of the 21th Annual International Colorectal Disease Symposium
• Late Effects After Radiation Treatment for Childhood Cancers

Reference Cards:

• How surgeons can help breast radiation oncologists
• Suggested Screening Recommendations for Survivors of Childhood Cancers with a History of Radiation Therapy

Spring 2010

References for Spring 2010 Newsletter

• Focus on Tumour Groups: Breast
• Role of MRI in Breast Cancer
• Highlights from the SON Breast Cancer Update 2009
• Preventing Venous Thromboembolism in Surgical Oncology Patients
• Hereditary Cancer Program: Updates for BC Surgeons
• Surgical Oncology Network News
• Upcoming Conferences

Summer 2009

• Focus on Tumour Groups: Paediatric Surgical Tumour Group
• Educational Outcomes among Childhood Survivors
• Upcoming Conferences
• Hereditary Cancer Program: Updates for BC Surgeons
• Best Breast Papers of 2008
• Immunochemical Fecal Occult Blood Tests and BC Cancer's Colon Check
• Importance of Clinical Guidelines in Surgical Oncology
• Improving Operative Reports in Cancer - the Synoptic Report
• Surgical Oncology Network Breast Cancer Fall Update 2009
• Surgical Oncology Network News

Winter 2009

• Focus on Tumour Groups: Urology Surgical Tumour Group
• Prostate cancer: Active Surveillance or Surgery
• Prostate Experience at BC Cancer: Indications and Future Goals
• Surgery for Prostate Cancer
• 2008 SON Rectal Cancer Update: The Last 5 cm - TME and Beyond
• Management of Appendiceal Mucoceles
• Transanal Endoscopic Resection (TEM) for Rectal Tumour in BC
• Hereditary Colon Cancer Testing Now Available at BC Cancer
• Update on Synoptic Operative Reporting Project

Spring 2008

• Focus on Tumour Groups - Sarcoma Surgical Tumour Group
• Management of Sarcomas
• Soft Tissue Tumours- A community surgeon's perspective
• Managing Malignant Bowel Obstructions
• Surgical Management of Malignant Bowel Obstruction in Patients with Advanced Ovarian Carcinoma

Winter 2008

• Focus on Tumour Groups -Skin Surgical Tumour Groups
• Review of article on Sentinel Node Biopsy or Nodal Observation on Melanoma
• Article on Melanoma
• Review, SON Fall Update, Endocrine Surgical Oncology
• Clinical Conundrums
  

Spring 2007

• Focus on Tumour Groups - Endocrine Surgical Tumour Group
• Two New Council Members Appointed
• Surgical Oncology Network Leadership Structure
• Investigation and Management of the Solitary Thyroid Nodule

Winter 2007

• Focus on Tumour Groups - Colorectal Cancer Surgical Tumour Group
• Colorectal Cancer Treatment at St. Paul’s Hospital Canada and Beyond
• Colorectal Surgery at St. Paul’s Hospital - Cutting Edge Surgery
• Survey Results Guide Future Network Direction

September 2006

• Adjuvant Treatment for Gastric and Pancreatic Carcinoma
• Adjuvant Therapy for Resected High Risk Colon Cancer: When should I Refer to Medical Oncology
• Postmenopausal Women at Increased risk for Breast Cancer can Participate in Clinical Trial
• Weird and Wonderful of the GI Tract

June 2006

• Updated Surveillance Guidelines for Patients with Stage II and III Colorectal Cancer
• Are we performing Total Mesorectal Excision (TME) in BC?
• Is Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Curable in 2006

Spring 2006

• Tumour Tissue Repository Moving Forward
• Insight into Ontario's Surgical Oncology Program
• Identification of Clinically Occult Disease in Oral Cancer Surgery
• American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer Presentation Highlights

Fall 2005

• Provincial PET/CT Program in Oncology
• Hereditary Non-Polyposis Colorectal Cancer - What's new in BC
• Herceptin Funded in BC - New BC Cancer Protocol
• Research updates - Prostate Cancer

Spring 2005

• Infrastructure Survey
• Health Quality Initiatives in Canada and Beyond
• National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSGIP)
• Interview with Dr. Peter Doris

Spring 2004

• Clinical Practice Guideline on Sentinel Lymph Node
• Mapping for Breast Cancer
• Dr. Allen Hayashi
• Patient navigation
• Review of the Surgical Oncology Network Hot Topics Session, November 2003 Breast Cancer Symposium, April 24th 2004

Fall 2003

• BrainCare BC
• A Randomized Trial of Surgery in the Treatment of Single Metastases to the Brain
• Cross Canada Surgical Oncology Care
  Members' Publications and Presentations
• Dr. Brian Toyota
• Sharon Thomson, the Network's Advanced Practice Nurse

Summer 2003

• Pros and Cons of Interferon alpha-2b for Sentinel Node
• Positive Malignant Melanoma
• Current Management of Melanoma: An Overview
• The Provincial Thoracic Surgery Program
• Book Review: Radioguided Surgery

Spring 2003

• Sarcomas of the Groin and Inguinal Canal
• Surgical Oncology Network and Council - key players, roles & opportunities
• Rectal Cancer Workshops - highlights and outcomes
• Canadian Strategy for Cancer Control - implementation upcoming

Fall 2002

• Rectal Cancer Update
• Barbara Poole - New Process Leader
• Research & Outcomes Evaluation

June 2002

• Continuing Medical Educational Needs Defined
• Tina Strack - Manager for the Council and Network
• Rectal Cancer - patterns of practice
• Research & Outcomes Progress Report
• BC Cancer Extranet Update

• The Council and Network - established and underway
• Standing Committees Linking Four Main Functions of the Council and Network
• Murray Mackinnon - Council & Network's Statistician