Evidence to Innovation
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Congratulations to the 2022 UBC Faculty of Medicine Award recipients!
Each year, the University of British Columbia faculty of medicine recognizes faculty and staff members for excellence in teaching, research, administration, innovation and public service.
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Time to diagnosis for malignant central nervous system tumours does not determine survival
After Dr. Sylvia Cheng treated an 8-year-old girl with a brain tumour, the girl’s parents asked the BC Children’s Hospital researcher and oncologist whether an earlier diagnosis of their daughter’s medulloblastoma, the most common type of childhood brain cancer, would have made a difference.
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Marijuana as medicine for kids with cancer: An emerging field of desperately needed research
At least once or twice a month, Dr. Rod Rassekh gets asked by colleagues at BC Children’s Hospital to meet with a cancer patient and their family so he can advise them on using medical marijuana. Parents want to know how to help their kids manage symptoms from harsh cancer treatments, and sometimes they want…
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