Have you wondered how to use your Screening Activity Report (SAR)*? Before I started to use this report regularly, I sure did! After a few years of using this report within my own practice, I felt ready to describe how it can be used to improve cancer screening. The SAR has practice and patient level…
Would you like a summary of your cancer screening performance compared to your group and region and province? The Regional Cancer Program is offering this dashboard to all primary care providers within a patient enrolment model practice. Please send requests to myself, Dr. Meghan Davis, via email at dr.meghan.davis@gmail.com. We can provide individual physician dashboards…
How and when should we offer routine colorectal cancer screening to our patients with increased risk of colorectal cancer following a colonoscopy? For patients with a first-degree relative with a history of colorectal cancer, the next step is usually another colonoscopy. If the scope is normal, the next should be:* Every 5 years if the…
Have questions about how to follow-up on a patient’s mammogram or when their next one should be? Need information on when to refer a patient for a colposcopy, or when their next Pap test should be when discharged? Wondering if and when a patient should be screened with a colonoscopy or FIT following their initial…
Given Ontario’s increasing COVID-19 vaccine uptake and extended accessibility to booster doses, you may be seeing more patients presenting to your practice with swelling in the axillary lymph nodes on the side of vaccination (ipsilateral). This can be worrisome for patients and can also be detected on breast screening mammograms. Here are some suggestions: For…
A few more pieces of information since my last blog post on this: Rejected OHIP numbers Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ministry of Health (MoH) does have a policy to continue accepting expired OHIP cards; however, only health cards that expired on or after March 1, 2020 have an extended expiry date under this…
High breast density is one of several breast cancer risk factors. Ontario Breast Screening Program (OBSP) participants are increasingly interested in finding out their breast density from their screening mammogram and learning about their breast screening options. The BI-RADS breast density classification system is a measurement of breast density that a radiologist can determine from…
If your practice is anything like mine, in the early days of the pandemic, you were not providing a lot of Pap tests. In fact, we were officially advised to scale back on all non-emergent care. So, we did! And now there is a backlog of over 53,000 people overdue for cervical screening in the…
Dear Clients and Partners, The HNHB Mobile Cancer Screening Coach will be closed until at least January 25, 2021 in response to the province-wide lockdown that was announced in late December. The health and safety of the communities that we serve, our clients and staff come first and that is why we are taking this…
As of August 25, 2020, LifeLabs will start accepting new fecal immunochemical test (FIT) requisitions for groups at higher risk of colorectal cancer: Average risk people over age 60 who have never been screened for colorectal cancer Average risk people with previous unsatisfactory FIT results Eligible average risk people awaiting organ transplant LifeLabs will continue…
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