Thank you to everyone who attended the Webinar last week. We reviewed the changes to Colorectal Cancer screening coming July 1st. Here is a recording of the webinar. And as promised here are some of the links from the webinar chat Ontario Health Resource Hub FIT Resource Hub | Cancer Care Ontario Tell In-Common Laboratories you…
Most average risk patients should have HPV screening every five years. However, a three-year interval is recommended if they are immunosuppressed as this may impair the ability to clear an HPV infection. At my office, we are trying to leverage our EMR’s functionality to pre- identify patients who might need screening every 3 years due to their…
Join me and our local GI lead Dr. Suraj Sharma on Thursday June 4th for an accredited webinar to learn more – ColonCancerCheck: Program Changes, Risk-Based Screening and Surveillance Recommendations | Join meeting in Teams | Microsoft Teams . This program has been certified by the College of Family Physicians of Canada and the Ontario…
These changes are designed to improve colorectal cancer (CRC) outcomes. Join me, Dr. Meghan Davis, and our local GI lead, Dr. Suraj Sharma, on Thursday June 4th at noon for a one hour accredited webinar to learn more. Registration link In addition, Ontario Health (Cancer Care Ontario) will be offering two unaccredited webinar sessions •…
Invitation to Provincial Cervical Screening and Colposcopy Education Day: Our region is proud to host the annual (accredited) OSCP update both in person or via webinar. Topics especially helpful for primary care include: normal cervical anatomy anatomy of variants, new HPV vaccination recommendations and lessons learned after HPV launch. Here is the invite! OSCP…
With all of the changes to the OBSP, it might be helpful to summarize the current pathways, including what correspondence letters our patients are receiving from Ontario Health: AGES Referral pathway Letters sent by Ontario Health 40-49 Self Referral Patients do NOT receive an invitation to get screened*. Patients who get screened will receive a result…
Lung cancer kills more Canadians than any other kind. In our region we are lucky to have a great program that offers screening and early detection for the high risk patients (people who currently or formerly smoked) using low-dose CT (LDCT). I wanted to share two pieces of info from this program Here is a…
The current Canada Post service disruption impacts cancer screening program activities:
Thank you for such a great uptake on HPV for cervical screening. Perhaps some of you noticed that the referral form to colposcopy needed updating to include HPV! In order to improve and standardize the referral process for colposcopy across the HNHB region, a new Regional Referral Form for Colposcopy has been in development with consultation…
Thank you to everyone for such a great uptake of HPV screening. To keep us all in the loop, here are some current issues: Why has correspondence from OH to our patients been paused? There are two main reasons why correspondence has been paused: When do we select cytology only on the requisition? What is…
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