Survivorship Navigation for Young Women With Early-Stage Breast Cancer.

Background: Young women treated for breast cancer experience unique concerns in follow-up. We developed a program to direct young breast cancer survivors to a dedicated survivorship visit and evaluated their experience.

Materials And Methods: Early-stage breast cancer patients diagnosed under age 45 within 1 year of completing breast surgery, chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy were systematically referred for a survivorship visit.

Surgery for varicose veins: use of tourniquet.

Background: Varicose vein surgery is a common surgical procedure but there is no consensus regarding the best surgical technique. The use of tourniquets during varicose vein surgery has been advocated as a means of reducing the potential for blood loss during the operation.

Objectives: To identify whether the use of a tourniquet should be recommended when undertaking surgery for the management of primary varicose veins.

Varicose veins: a qualitative study to explore expectations and reasons for seeking treatment.

Background: Patients experience a wide range of symptoms from varicose veins and are seeking treatment from health care providers. However, there is little data on the relative effectiveness of the treatments available. Patients are therefore often confronted with a choice regarding treatment that they are ill-equipped to make.