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Editorial

Cancer in New Zealand

Frank Frizelle

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Original Articles

(Mis)classification of ethnicity on the New Zealand Cancer Registry: 1981–2004

Caroline Shaw, June Atkinson, Tony Blakely

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Is quality cancer information available for consumers in New Zealand? A national stocktake and review of written consumer cancer information

Inga O’Brien, Laura Lambie, Sarah Stacy-Baynes

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Lung cancer patients in New Zealand initially present to secondary care through the emergency department rather than by referral to a respiratory specialist

Sarah Beatty, Wendy Stevens, Graham Stevens, John Kolbe, Brian Cox

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Delays in the assessment and management of primary lung cancers in South Auckland

Jai-deep Sood, Conroy Wong, Robert Bevan, Andrew Veale, Pathmanathan Sivakumaran

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Colon cancer management in New Zealand: 1996–2003

Ruth Cunningham, Diana Sarfati, Sarah Hill, Elizabeth Dennett, Anne O’Donnell

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Development of metachronous neoplasms after colorectal cancer resection: absence of synchronous neoplasms predicts a lower risk

Siraj G Rajaratnam, Elizabeth R Dennett

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CT colonography in a rural New Zealand hospital

Chuan Lai, Tarik Sammour, Graeme Roadley, Gavin Wilton, Andrew G Hill

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An international comparison study of stage of colorectal cancer at diagnosis: how does New Zealand compare?

Paul Samson, Gregory O’Grady, John Keating

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Viewpoint

Who gets born? How did New Zealand’s Bioethics Council arrive at its recommendations?

D Gareth Jones, Mike R King, Maja I Whitaker

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Clinical Correspondence

Cyclic ectopic Cushing’s syndrome and somatostatin analogue treatment

Henrik Falhammar

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Thrombolysis in aphemia

Nandavar Shobha, Eric E Smith

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Medical image. A twist in the tale

Inian Samarasam, Geetha Inian, James Roberts-Thomson

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Medical image. A fat headache

Serap Karasalihoğlu, Ahmet Güzel, Yasemin Küçük Uğurluoğlu, Ercüment Ünlü

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Some exploded theories and forgotten remedies in medicine: part 3 (cancer, guarana)

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Proceedings

Proceedings of the Waikato Clinical School Research Seminar, Wednesday 4 March 2009

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

New Zealand general practitioners’ opinions of the polypill concept

Shaun Holt

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Capecitabine-induced acute myeloid leukaemia

Sarah Tansley, Steve Gibbons

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Obituaries

John Richard (Dick) Presland

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Ian Ambury Miller Prior

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Notice

University of Otago Faculty of Medicine Freemasons Postgraduate Fellowships in Paediatrics and Child Health for 2010

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Book Reviews

Who Decides Who Decides? Enabling choice, equity, access, improved performance and patient guaranteed care (John Spiers)

John Morton

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Complications of Myocardial Infarction (Stuart J Hutchison)

Paul G Bridgman

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The Renal Drug Handbook (3rd edition; C Ashley and A Currie, editors)

Walter van der Merwe

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