COLORECTAL HIGHLIGHTS
	Pre-Operative Staging Investigations For Rectal Cancer W Douglas Wong MD, New York; Paul Bernick MD Preoperative staging is important in the management of rectal cancer as treatment is determined by the preoperative stage. Furthermore, reliable preoperative tumor staging may be useful to determine prognosis. There are many therapeutic options available to the surgeon in the management of patients with operable rectal cancer.
	Early Rectal Cancer Robert Taylor, Vancouver; Doug Wong, New York Selected cases of early rectal cancer can be treated by local excision. Experience in British Columbia has shown that local excision of cases of early rectal cancer that have no adverse features, when combined with adjuvant radiotherapy, have local recurrence rates and recurrence-free survival rates similar to those obtained by standard radical resection.
	Ottawa Model For A Regional Centre For Rectal Cancer Surgery Hartley Stern, Ottawa Purpose: To design a more efficient and accessible system to screen for and treat patients with colorectal cancer (CRC).
VASCULAR HIGHLIGHTS
	Popliteal Artery Entrapment Dr. Jim Dooner FRCS(C), FACS Presented at Vancouver Island Vascular Symposium, April 7 2001.
	Scanning in Carotid Stent Trials DE Strandness Jr., MD, Seattle With the interest in carotid stenting and the controversies surrounding this issue, it is clear that randomized trials will be mounted and indeed demanded.