Past Resident projects

Presentations

CSSO Annual Spring Meeting May 2021 Oral Presentation:

Preparing to Survive: Improving Outcomes for Young Women with Breast Cancer.

Alison Hunter-Smith, FRCS (Presenter), Colleen Cuthbert BN MN PhD, Karen Fergus PhD C.Psych, Lisa Barbera MC MPA FRCPC, Yvonne Efegoma MBBS MSc, Doris Howell RN PhD FAAN, Susan Isherwood PhD, Nathalie Levasseur MD BSc FRCPC, Adena Scheer MD MSc FRCSC, Christine Simmons MD MSc FRCPC, Amirrtha Srikantham MD MHSc FRCPC CHE, Claire Temple-Orberle BA MD MSc FRCSC, Yuan Xu MD MSc PhD, Kelly Metcalfe RN PhD FAAN & May Lynn Quan MD MSc FRCSC. CSSO Best Long Abstract Prize Winner.

Canadian Surgery Forum September 2021 Oral Presentation:

Preparing to Survive: Improving Outcomes for Young Women with Breast Cancer.

ASBrS 23rd Annual Meeting 2022 Poster Presentation:

Preparing to Survive: Improving Outcomes for Young Women with Breast Cancer from diagnosis, throughout treatment and into survivorship.

Alison Hunter-Smith, FRCS, Colleen Cuthbert BN MN PhD, Karen Fergus PhD C.Psych, Lisa Barbera MC MPA FRCPC, Yvonne Efegoma MBBS MSc, Doris Howell RN PhD FAAN, Susan Isherwood PhD, Nathalie Levasseur MD BSc FRCPC, Adena Scheer MD MSc FRCSC, Christine Simmons MD MSc FRCPC, Amirrtha Srikantham MD MHSc FRCPC CHE, Claire Temple-Orberle BA MD MSc FRCSC, Yuan Xu MD MSc PhD, Kelly Metcalfe RN PhD FAAN & May Lynn Quan MD MSc FRCSC.

The American Society of Breast Surgeons Official Proceedings, Volume XXIII 2022 Annual Meeting Scientific Session Abstracts. Ann Surg Oncol 29, 1–330 (2022).

Alison Laws completed her medical degree at McMaster University, general surgery residency at the University of Calgary, a breast surgical oncology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital/Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology at Harvard University. She currently works in Boston, Massachusetts as a breast surgical oncologist at Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center. Her research interests include the surgical management of breast cancer and optimizing screening and prevention strategies for women at high risk for breast cancer. During her time in Calgary, her work focused on developing a provincial dataset of patients treated with breast-conserving surgery to evaluate the effect of different intra-operative margin assessment techniques on re-excision rates.

Publications

Laws A, Xu Y, Kong S, Brisson AM, Bouchard-Fortier A, Quan ML. Breast biopsy during post-treatment surveillance of early breast cancer patients yields high rates of benign findings. Annal Surg Oncol. 2020 Aug:27(8). doi: 10.1245/s10434-020-08259-2. SRI

Laws A, Brar M, Bouchard-Fortier A, Leong B, Quan ML: Does intra-operative margin assessment improve margin status and re-excision rates? A population-based analysis of outcomes in breast-conserving surgery for ductal carcinoma in situ. J Surg Oncol. 2018 Dec;118(7):1205-1211. doi: 10.1002/jso.25248. Epub 2018 Oct 7. SRI

Laws A, Crocker A, Dort J, Olson D, Elwi A, Anderes S, Parker S, Estey A, Keehn A, Quan ML. Improving Wait Times and Patient Experience Through Implementation of a Provincial Expedited Diagnostic Pathway for BI-RADS 5 Breast Lesions., Ann Surg Oncol. 2019 Oct;26(10):3361-3367. doi: 10.1245/s10434-019-07558-7. Epub 2019 Jul 24. SRI

Laws A, Brar MS, Bouchard-Fortier A, Leong B, Quan ML. Intraoperative Margin Assessment in Wire-Localized Breast-Conserving Surgery for Invasive Cancer: A Population-Level Comparison of Techniques. Ann Surg Oncol. 2016 Oct;23(10):3290-6. doi: 10.1245/s10434-016-5401-2. Epub 2016 Jul 12.PMID: 27406094

Jennifer Yoon – U of C general surgery resident

Yoon J, Knapp G, Quan ML, Bouchard-Fortier A. Cancer-Specific outcomes in the elderly with Triple-Negative Breast Cancer: A systematic review. Curr Oncol. 2021 Jun 24;28(4):2337-2345. Read

Yiming Qian – U of C general surgery resident

Hyunming Jung – post doctoral fellow

Jung H, Lu M, Quan ML, Cheung WY, Kong S, Lupichuk S, Feng Y, Xu Y. New method for determining breast cancer recurrence-free survival using routinely collected real-world health data.BMC Cancer. 2022 Mar 16;22(1):281. doi: 10.1186/s12885-022-09333-6.PMID: 35296284 Free PMC article. Read

Abdullah Al-Rashdan – Radiation Oncology fellow

Locoregional Management of Breast Cancer: A Chronological Review.

Al-Rashdan A, Deban M, Quan ML, Cao JQ.Curr Oncol. 2022 Jul 1;29(7):4647-4664. doi: 10.3390/curroncol29070369.PMID: 35877229 Free PMC article. Read

Al-Rashdan A, Xu Y, Quan ML, Cao JQ, Cheung W, Bouchard-Fortier A, Kong S, Barbera L. Higher-risk breast cancer in women aged 80 and older: Exploring the effect of treatment on survival. Breast. 2021 Oct;59:203-210. Epub 2021 Jul 9. Read

Evan Jost – Surgical Oncology Fellow

Jost E, Dingley B, Jost C, Cheung WY, Quan ML, Bouchard-Fortier A, Kong S, Xu Y. Associations Between the Density of Oil and Gas Infrastructure and the Incidence, Stage and Outcomes of Solid Tumors: A Population-Based Geographic Analysis. Front Oncol. 2021 Oct 15; 11:757875. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2021.757875. eCollection 2021. Read

Suzana Kupper – Surgical Oncology Fellow

Küpper S, Austin JL, Dingley B, Xu Y, Kong K, Brar M, Wright FC, Nessim C, Bouchard-Fortier A, Quan ML. Extent of Groin Dissection in Melanoma: A Mixed-Methods, Population-Based Study of Practice Patters and Outcomes. Curr Oncol. 2021 Dec 16;28(6):5422-5433. doi: 10.3390/curroncol28060452. Read

David Wu – Medical Oncology resident

Wu CHD, Quan ML, Kong S, Xu Y, Cao JQ, Lupichuk S, Barbera L. Acute Care Use by Breast Cancer Patients on Adjuvant Chemotherapy in Alberta: Demonstrating the Importance of Measurement to Improving Quality. Curr Oncol. 2021 Nov 2;28(6):4420-4431. doi: 10.3390/curroncol28060375.PMID: 34898555 Free PMC article. Read

Past Projects

Alysha Keehn

University of Calgary General Surgery Resident/MSc Epi Clinical Investigator Program

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Ali Hunter-Smith

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Alison Laws

University of Calgary Resident

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Past Resident Publications

Explore past projects residents worked on for SPHERE on various health and cancer topics.