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More time wanted Katie Bartel The Progress A petition opposing the proposed boundary change for Yarrow students attending middle school was started in the name of students, said the organizer. Ingrid Schoolkate, whose youngest child will be affected by the proposed change next year, started the petition as a way of giving her child and all others a voice. “Kids don’t have a voice here,” she said. “As a parent, I’m their voice.” Chilliwack school district is proposing a boundary change for Yarrow students where instead of going to Vedder middle they will be redirected to Mt. Slesse middle. The change is meant to balance enrollments at both schools, as well as to ensure Mt. Slesse stays viable. Mt. Slesse’s enrollment is expected to drop next year to 472 students, but has a capacity for 650. With Yarrow, its enrollment would increase to 509 students. Chilliwack board of education will be voting on the proposal at the Feb. 22 meeting. If approved the change would be effective September 2011 for students going into Grade 7. Students already attending Vedder middle could stay at Vedder middle. Continued: YARROW/ p14
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Kevin Sundher of the Chilliwack Bruins gets the puck past the goal line for a split second before Kelowna Rockets goaltender Adam Brown pushes it back out during the second period of Saturday night’s game at Prospera Centre. Video review was required to confirm the goal which, after some discussion, was allowed, giving the Bruins the lead for the remainder of the game. For more, see page 21. JENNA HAUCK/ PROGRESS
Probe ordered into misinterpreted CT scans Cancer may have gone untreated in some patients Jeff Nagel Black Press Several B.C. patients may have cancer that went undetected because two radiologists who were either unqualified or inexperienced misinterpreted the results of CT scans performed at hospitals in Abbotsford and Powell River last year. Health minister Colin Hansen has ordered an
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investigation into the cases of misdiagnosis to determine how the radiology physicians in question were allowed to read the scans. Fraser Health Authority CEO Dr. Nigel Murray said there may be untreated cancers in some of the 10 patients scanned at Abbotsford Regional Hospital and Cancer Centre where misinterpreted scans may have contributed to
patients receiving incorrect treatment. “They could include missed cancers,” Murray said. “Approximately three or four could be in that category.” False positives included one case where the radiologist wrongly identified a pulmonary embolysm in the lungs of an Abbotsford patient, but Murray said the patient’s doctor did not rely
entirely on the scan result and treated on the basis of other evidence as well. “At this time we believe there was no inappropriate treatment given due to false positives.” The locum radiologist in question performed a total of 170 CT scan interpretations in the eastern Fraser Valley between mid-August and mid-September 2010, most at Abbotsford but about a dozen in Chilliwack, where no discrepancies
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were found. “We are still in the process of contacting all the patients individually,” Murray said. “All of their doctors have been contacted and are taking the appropriate actions.” One of the 10 patients where scan interpretation problems were flagged has since died, a case Murray said is under investigation but could be due to natural causes. Continued: CT/ p12
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