Specimen margin close to tumor

Status of surgical circumferential margin involvement by tumor

22. Highlights the continuing imbalances in the food supply chain, in which the position of primary producers is considerably weaker than that of other actors; urges the Commission to incentivise the creation of producer organisations, particularly in the dairy sector, as one of several means of tackling unfair trading practices, and to closely monitor practices of excessive taxation on food articles, and to take action to improve the transparency of prices and margins, with particular reference to the role of the large-scale retail sector as well as the weak position of farmers in the food supply chain; highlights the value of a pilot ...[+++] project in this area and asks for submission of a legislative proposal if necessary;

In addition, for patients with breast cancer, we use a technetium-based test to find the lymph node that's closest to that tumour so that the surgeon can excise that lymph node, send it to pathology, and determine whether it has spread beyond the primary tumour in that patient.

I would ask all the committee members to imagine themselves undergoing surgery where someone is taking out a tumour, or a uterus, and so on, and the surgeon is standing in the operating room and has people, bureaucrats, standing behind him and telling him, “Go faster, go faster, you need to do this procedure quicker and quicker”.

Each year in Canada over 200 children and youth under 20 years of age are diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour and nearly 60 die from their disease.