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COVID-19 : POHC Next Gen Clinic reopen

We hope that you and your families continue to stay safe during these challenging times.

The Pacific Oral Health Centre has reopened as of September 2021. Our UBC Next Gen clinic reopened as of summer 2020.

A heartfelt thank you to Dr. Michelle Liu and everyone at Elgin Corners Dental in south Surrey for the use of their dental clinic while POHC was closed. 

Like many others, we continue to work mainly from home during this time. We thank you for your patience as we have limited time in the office to answer phones. Please leave a voicemail for us at 604 675-8057 and we will return your call. If you have an urgent concern and / or need  an appointment, call or email us at orca@bccrc.ca. 

For those who are referring patients to us, please continue to send us your referrals via email or fax. 

Any emergency cases or situations, please feel free to contact us via email, and we will do our best to see you soon as possible.

Stay safe!

About Us

OUR MISSION & GOALS

To advance prevention of oral cancer across British Columbia through creation of outstanding education, research and service at the community level. 

The BC Oral Cancer Prevention Program is a translational program whose goal is to integrate prevention, screening, early diagnosis and effective treatment of oral cancer and its precursor lesions into a province-wide seamless network. Patient lesions are assessed using a developed risk model to determine probability of progression or regression, and the patients are triaged into high or low oral cancer risk groups. High risk individuals can then be followed.  The program (in conjunction with Cancer Imaging) has developed tools (VELscope; toluidine blue application; etc) for earlier clinical diagnosis, and better  margin visualization of frank cancers. These advances should help surgeons and radiation oncologists materially reduce the frequency of recurrence or metastasis from oral cancer.

The aim is to translate research findings into practical care at a population level with a minimum of delay.  BC OCPP has several provincial, national and international initiatives in place, including a joint Canada-India program to export our technology and procedures to India where oral cancer is one of that nation’s major malignancies.

    Clinics

    Vancouver Location

    UBC Frontier Research Centre
    1st Floor, JB MacDonald Building,
    2199 Westbrook Mall, UBC,
    Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3

     

    Surrey Location

    Pacific Oral Health Centre
    Suite 300, 15850 – 24th Avenue,
    Surrey, BC V3Z 0G1

    Referral

    For referral of patients requiring assessment of suspected or biopsy proven dysplasia, please fill in the referral form  and email/fax to us.

    BC Oral Cancer Prevention Program
    BC Cancer Agency
    #2-119, 675 W.10th Ave
    Vancouver BC V5Z 1L3

    Email:  orca@bccrc.ca     Phone:  604 675-8057      Fax:  604 675-8079

    Clinicians (physicians, dentists, or dental hygienists) should fill in the referral form and send it to us.

    Next Gen Referral Form