West Coast Surgical Oncology is pleased to announce that Dr. Elizaveta Vasilyeva has been appointed Surgical Oncologist and General Surgeon at Vancouver General Hospital and BC Cancer Agency. Dr. Vasilyeva completed her General Surgery Residency in 2020 and Complex Surgical Oncology Fellowship in 2022 at the University of British Columbia. To further develop clinical expertise in managing breast cancer patients,…

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On August 27th, the two-day cycling event Tour de Cure took place in a 100 kilometer course around the Fraser Valley. Our wonderful surgical oncology team took part as almost two thousand participants and supporters gathered for the largest cycling fundraiser in British Columbia. $6.3 million was raised to support research through the BC Cancer Foundation. Many thanks to our…

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Over the summer, between wildfires, flooding and the heat dome, we have seen first hand how our health is tied to that of our environment. The evidence around climate change and its ramification is clearer than ever – as a result, in September, over 230 medical journals, including the NEJM, the Lancet, and the CMAJ published a joint editorial calling for…

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I’ve been in this space now for a decade, and for approximately the first eight years, the reception to this message was the same … I was still having to really explicitly make the connection between climate change and health …. Over the past two years and in particular throughout the pandemic, public awareness around climate change as a health…

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A huge congratulations to Dr. Andrea MacNeill for founding the Planetary Healthcare Lab at UBC, the first of its kind in all of Canada. The lab aims to examine the environmental effects of the healthcare industry in BC as well as provide solutions towards the ultimate goal of net zero emissions. Read more about this amazing new initiative here.

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