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Editorials

Melanoma in New Zealand: a problem that is not going away

James H F Shaw

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Ghosts in the machine: the experiences of Māori in the New Zealand health system

Jonathan B Koea

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Lack of progress in New Zealand’s Cancer Control Strategy

Christopher Wynne

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Defamatory articles or not?

Frank A Frizelle

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Original Articles

The incidence and thickness of cutaneous malignant melanoma in New Zealand 1994–2004

Ann Richardson, Lynn Fletcher, Mary Jane Sneyd, Brian Cox, Anthony I Reeder

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The road we travel: Māori experience of cancer

Tai Walker, Louise Signal, Marie Russell, Kirsten Smiler, Rawiri Tuhiwai-Ruru, Otaki Community Health Centre, Te Wakahuia Hauora, Te Aitanga a Hauiti Hauora, Turanga Health

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Thyroid malignancies: a New Zealand South Island thyroid clinic experience 1995–2006

Bevan Brownlie, Philippa Mercer, John Turner, Robert Allison

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An audit of colon cancer data on the New Zealand Cancer Registry

Ruth Cunningham, Diana Sarfati, Sarah Hill, Diane Kenwright

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The value of voluntary morbidity and mortality meetings at a New Zealand metropolitan hospital

Magdalena Sakowska, Saxon Connor

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Hospital discharges in New Zealand 1991–2005: changes over time and variation between districts

Antony Raymont

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Viewpoints

Mapping progress: the evaluation and monitoring work of the Cancer Control Council of New Zealand 2005–2007

Mary Clare Tracey, Matt Soeberg, Tony Blakely

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From screening criteria to colorectal cancer screening: what can New Zealand learn from other countries?

Caroline Shaw, Ruth Cunningham, Diana Sarfati

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Clinical Correspondence

Primary gastric mucosal melanoma

Joseph Yuan-Mou Yang, Govind S R Krishna, Collin MacLeod, Willem Oosthuysen

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The escape artist! Detecting choroidal metastases in the setting of breast cancer

Christolyn Raj, Gary Leber

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Medical image. Mediastinal mass in a patient with coronary artery disease

Amer Zeidan

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Medical image. CT colonography for colovesical fistula

Andrew Ing, Andrew Lienert, Frank Frizelle

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Registrars for collecting information at the main hospitals

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

Use of title 'Dr'—view of the Medical Council of New Zealand

Simon Robb

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Abuse of the title ‘Dr’

Kevin Dew, Andrew Gilbey, David Colquhoun

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The International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC)

Innes Asher

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Undergraduate education to address patient safety

Alexander Garden, Sharmila Bernau, Geoffrey Robinson, Cheyne Chalmers

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Obituaries

Richmond (Geoff) Kjestrup

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Colin Murdoch

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Notice

Twenty years after the Cartwright Report: what have we learnt? (Conference, 28 August 2008, Auckland)

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Erratum

Kamdar A, Muller AF, Kapetanakis S, et al. A 40-year-old woman with breathlessness.

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