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Editorials

Melanoma control: few answers, many questions

Rod Dunbar, Mike Findlay, Graham Stevens

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Improving outcomes in ovarian cancer

Michelle Vaughan, Peter Sykes, Carol Johnson, Bernie Fitzharris, on behalf of the New Zealand Gynaecologic Cancer Group

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Original Articles

The control of melanoma in New Zealand

Mary Sneyd, Brian Cox

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Confirming a diagnosis of hereditary colorectal cancer: the impact of a Familial Bowel Cancer Registry in New Zealand

Paul James, Susan Parry, Julie Arnold, Ingrid Winship

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Multidisciplinary treatment of colorectal cancer in New Zealand: survival rates from 1997–2002

John Keating, David Yong, Glenda Cutler, James Johnston

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Osteosarcoma in New Zealand: an outcome study comparing survival rates between 1981–1987 and 1994–1999

Hamish Curry, Geoffrey Horne, Peter Devane, Helen Tobin

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Special Article

Palliative Care Partnership—a successful model of primary/secondary integration

Bruce Stewart, Simon Allan, Barry Keane, Bridget Marshall, Jane Ayling, Tai Luxford

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Review Article

Back to the future: postoperative pain management beyond COX-2 inhibitors

Ole Naesh

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Case Report

Managing squamous cell carcinoma of the bulbomembranous male urethra with genital-preserving surgery and chemoradiotherapy

Alison Finall, Martha Nicholson, John North, Kampta Samalia

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Special Series

Quality improvement in New Zealand healthcare. Part 6: keeping the patient front and centre to improve healthcare quality

Gillian Robb, Mary Seddon, on behalf of EPIQ

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Notes on cholelithiasis—Case 3

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Medical Image

Extensive oral ulcerations

Nadir Goksugur, Fahrettin Yilmaz

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

New Zealand should control Campylobacter in fresh poultry before worrying about flies—and Response

Nick Wilson, Michael Baker, Greg Simmons, Phil Shoemack, Warrick Nelson, Ben Harris

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Modern treatment for cholecystostomy

John Dunn

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What is health?

Hugh Mann

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Book Reviews

Eczema: What Really Works (Carolyn Charman, Sandra Lawton)

Paul Jarrett

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Verbal Medicine: 21 Contemporary Clinician-Poets of Australia and New Zealand (Tim Metcalf, ed)

Neil Béchervaise

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