Purpose In British Columbia (BC), there have been 2790 confirmed COVID-19 cases as of
June 20, 2020. The aim of this project is to capture the effect of COVID-19 on the volume of …

Pleomorphic lobular carcinoma is an uncommon form of breast cancer and a subtype of
invasive lobular carcinoma. It has unique histopathologic features that translate to a more …

Purpose Immediate breast reconstruction (IBR) following mastectomy remains controversial
for locally advanced breast cancer over concerns regarding recurrence and complications …

Background The COVID-19 pandemic has seen major shifts in the delivery of health care
across the world, including adoption of telemedicine. We present a survey of patient …

RAS-ACS: SURGICAL CARE AND TRAINING AT THE CROSSROADS surgeon and
resident. 1 These changes include shortened periods of inhospital time for residents due to …

Introduction Oncoplastic breast surgery (OBS) is increasingly used to decrease the deformity
in breast conserving therapy (BCT) for breast cancer. We aimed to evaluate patient …

Background Routine excision of flat epithelial atypia (FEA) of the breast found on core needle
biopsy (CNB) is being questioned and a policy of selective excision of FEA was adopted in …

Background We assessed the cancer upstage rate of Radial Scars (RS), and Complex
Sclerosing Lesions (CSL), and risk-stratified lesions based on radiological and pathological …

Introduction Timely access to breast cancer surgery is imperative for patient outcome. Building
upon our previous model, 5 breast surgeons centralized all breast surgical referrals using …

Quality Indicators (QIs), including the breast-conserving surgery (BCS) rate, were published
by the European and American Breast Cancer Societies and this study assesses these in a …