2011 BC Cancer Agency Conference Speaker Presentations
Below you will find this year's speaker presentations organized by date and program. Click on the links below to download the PDF files of each presentation.
Thursday, December 1st, 2011
Partners in Cancer Care - Click on the links below
Breast Health Pathway Project
Lynn Pelletier and Christine Wilson
Adolescent and Young Adult Survivors of Cancers
Paul Rogers
Northern Cancer Control Strategy: Partnering to enhance care across Northern BC
Hal Collier
Pan Canadian Oncology Drug Review
Charles Blanke
Gynecologic Oncology Projects in Africa
Dianne Miller
Chemo Smartbook: Patient focused chemotherapy scheduling
Martin Puterman
Terry Fox Research Institute BC Node 1st Annual Research Day - Click on the links below
The Terry Fox Research Institute (TFRI) BC Node
Hypoxic Tumour Cells Induce Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cell Accumulation in Metastatic Target Organs
Kevin Bennewith
A Comprehensive Genome-Wide Characterization of Meis1 Induced Leukemic Transformation
Eric Yung
Identification of Differentially Expressed Circulating MicroRNAs in the Serum of Patients with Lung Adenocarcinoma
Sara MacLellan
The Pan-Canadian Early Detection of Lung Cancer Study
Stephen Lam
Biology of Cancer: Insights from genomic analyses of lymphoid neoplasms
Joseph Connors
What Does it Take to Catch an Early Stage Lung Cancer in Canada?
Sonya Cressman, Ian Cromwell, Stuart Peacock
Exploring Mutational Evolution in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
Jill Mwenifumbo, Malachi Griffith, Yongjun Zhao, David Owen, Sharlene Gill and Marco Marra
Understanding the Adoption of Fluorescence Visualization by Head and Neck Surgeons: Preparation for Knowledge Translation in the COOLS Trial
Sarah E. Gustin
Identification of sister chromatids by their DNA template strands
Peter Lansdorp
Narrow Time Window Between Tumor Resection and Regional Failure: Can We Salvage the Necks and Lives?
Kelly (Yi-Ping) Liu
Personalized Vaccines Targeting Tumour-Specific Mutations
Spencer Martin
Late Morbidity among 5-year Survivors of Young Adult Cancer in British Columbia
Yang Zhang
Psychosocial Oncology - Click on the links below
New Directions in Cancer Survivorship: Working together with Communities to Make a Difference
Richard Doll and Heather
Rennie
Oncology Nutrition - Click on the links below
In a Nutshell… Short presentation describing new initiatives and/or resources in Oncology Nutrition
Cheri Van Patten
A Case Study: I’m cured but I can’t eat.
Melanie Chevrier
Protein Flushes for Outpatients
Lori Sameshima
Pain & Symptom Management - Click on the links below
Practice Support Program: End of Life Module Community Healthcare and Resource Directory
Cathy Clelland
Advanced Care Planning
Cari Hoffman and Pat Porterfield
Moderator: Panel-Walking on Egg Shells: the 'who' and the 'how' of having THE conversation
Ryna Levy-Milne
Conscious Care Giving: Understanding, Preventing and Reducing Compassion Fatigue
Stacey Sprague
What's New in Pain Medication
Catriona Aparicio
Pleur X Catheter for the Management of Abdominal Ascites
Doris Barwich and Elizabeth Beddard-Huber
Friday, December 2nd, 2011
Knowledge Translation Plenary - Click on the links below
Lymphoma Biology: A window in carcinogenisis
Joseph Connors
Website for Children When a Family Member is Diagnosed with Cancer
Gina Mackenzie and Sara Prins Hankinson
Cancer Chat Canada
Joanne Stephen
Developing Anticancer Drugs in an Academic Environment: the story behind Irinophore CTM
Marcel Bally
In-Breast Tumor Recurrence: Distinguishing True Recurrence from New Primary
Pauline Truong
Knowledge Translation Plenary - Track 1 - Click on the links below
BCCF and BCCA: How funding priorities are identified, how we raise the dollars and how and what we fund.
Doug Nelson
From Bench to Bedside: The TACL Phase 1 Leukemia Study
Kirk Schultz
OaSIS - Outcomes and Surveillance Integrated System
John Wu
Genomics and Personalized Medicine
Aly Karsan
The COOLS trial: a Pan-Canadian Head and Neck Surgical Network for Oral Cancer Control
Catherine Poh
Developing Novel Prostate Cancer Therapeutics
Marianne Sadar
Collaborating in the Fight Against Cancer - The BCCA/Ireland Story
Susan O'Reilly and Tom Keane
Knowledge Translation Plenary - Track 2 - Click on the links below
Survivorship Care Planning
Geri Arkell and Heather Watson
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: The Future for Communities Oncology
Johanna den Duyf
Partnering with Communities to Improve Care
Shaun Lorhan
Knowledge Translation Plenary - Track 3 - Click on the links below
What we can learn from Near Miss Patient Safety Events
Sue Fuller Blamey
Improving Patient Safety and Quality: Implementing Effective Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis Strategies for BCCA Inpatients
Trish Hunt and Shirin Abadi
Saturday, Decemeber 3rd, 2011
Family Practice Oncology Network - Click on the links below
Tumour Markers
Angela Chan
Workshops Round 1- Anal Cancer and HPV
Mike Mamacos
Lung Cancer: Palliative Aspects and Surveillance of Patients who are smokers
Nevin Murray
BC Cancer Agency's Colon Check Program: Preparing for Launch
Jennifer Telford
Family Practice Oncology Network: Progress Report and Strategic Direction
Phil White
Nursing Oncology - Click on the links below
BC Oncology Nursing Group
Johanna den Duyf
Sound Bites from Nursing: Radiation Therapy Care Guideline
Anne Hughes
Nursing in the Community
Robin Pozer
Sound Bites from Nursing: Pediatric Oncology Network
Paulina Chen
Discharge and Transitioning
Janice Dirksen and Susan Balfour Hunt
Sound Bites from Nursing: Overcoming sleep disturbances: An innovative pilot study
Nancy Absolon
Advance Care Planning
Pat Porterfield
Cancer Prevention Resources
Lesley Lim
Pharmacy Oncology - Click on the links below
Sex Matters - Gynecologic and Urologic Adverse Effects of Cancer Treatment
(JointRN/Rx Meeting)
Theressa Phillips, Sydney Thomson, Winkle Kwan, and Lynne Ferrier
Drug Interactions in Oncology
Nadine Badry and Victoria Kletas
Usability Testing for Closed System Drug Transfer Devices
Joan Fabbro and
Michelle Koberinski
Lymphoma/ Myeloma
Joseph Connors
Education Update
Sally Man
NHA Regional Oncology Team
Rob Watt
Topics in Ovarian Cancer
James Conklin
Public Fourm - Click on the links below
How can we help? Wisdom from Cancer Patients
Nancy Payeur