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  2. Canadian postal abbreviations for provinces and territories

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    ISO 3166-2:CA identifiers' second elements are all the same as these; ISO adopted the existing Canada Post abbreviations. [1] These abbreviations are not the source of letters in Canadian postal codes, which are assigned by Canada Post on a different basis than these abbreviations. While postal codes are also used for sorting, they allow ...

  3. Salpingo-oophorectomy - Wikipedia

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    In medicine, salpingo-oophorectomy is the removal of an ovary and its fallopian tube. [1] [2] This procedure is most frequently associated with prophylactic surgery in response to the discovery of a BRCA mutation, particularly those of the normally tumor suppressing BRCA1 gene (or, with a statistically lower negative impact, those of the tumour suppressing BRCA2 gene), which can increase the ...

  4. List of postal codes of Canada: H - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of postal codes in Canada where the first letter is H. Postal codes beginning with H are located within the Canadian province of Quebec, except for H0H.Only the first three characters are listed, corresponding to the Forward Sortation Area (FSA).

  5. Postal codes in Canada - Wikipedia

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    A Canadian postal code (French: code postal) is a six-character string that forms part of a postal address in Canada. [1] Like British, Irish, and Dutch postcodes, Canada's postal codes are alphanumeric. They are in the format A1A 1A1, where A is a letter and 1 is a digit, with a space separating the third and fourth characters.

  6. List of postal codes of Canada: J - Wikipedia

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    Canada Post provides a free postal code look-up tool on its website, [1] via its mobile apps for such smartphones as the iPhone and BlackBerry, [2] and sells hard-copy directories and CD-ROMs. Many vendors also sell validation tools, which allow customers to properly match addresses and postal codes.

  7. Prophylactic surgery - Wikipedia

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    Prophylactic oophorectomy is the removal of the ovaries and is either done as a planned response to the genetic risk of ovarian or breast cancer, especially among women whom have a hereditary family history of ovarian cancer, have the BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations, [17] or have developed breast cancer in the past. [18]

  8. Oophorectomy - Wikipedia

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    However, it is now clear that prophylactic oophorectomy without a reasonable medical indication decreases long-term survival rates substantially [10] and has deleterious long-term effects on health and well-being even in post-menopausal women. [11] The procedure has been postulated as a possible treatment method for female sex offenders. [12]

  9. List of postal codes of Canada: G - Wikipedia

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    Canada Post provides a free postal code look-up tool on its website, [1] via its mobile apps for such smartphones as the iPhone and BlackBerry, [2] and sells hard-copy directories and CD-ROMs. Many vendors also sell validation tools, which allow customers to properly match addresses and postal codes.