Janson Kappen

ABSTRACT Introduction Patients with peritoneal metastasis (PM) from colorectal cancer (CRC) typically have a poor prognosis with historically few treatment options. Cytoreductive surgery (CRS) is the mainstay of treatment to remove macrometastases into the peritoneum, but residual micrometastases are often left behind.

If you’re reading this article, and also happened to make a New Year’s Resolution this year, there’s a good chance—seventy-three per cent to be exact—that you will break your resolution by the end of the year. If the McGill GPA scale makes more sense to you, that means that Canadians get about a B for failing to keep resolutions. Many people end up breaking their New Year’s resolutions in comedic ways.

The New Democratic Party (NDP) has been in hibernation since the last federal election. It shed several pounds in Parliament—from 103 to 44 seats after the 2015 election—and ran its it’s base’s enthusiasm enthusiasm dry, leaving a skeleton of good policy remaining but little charisma. In this weak position, the NDP took its biggest gamble yet. Its members elected Jagmeet Singh—a charismatic, fashionable knight in a three-piece suit of armour—as their federal leader.