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Editorials

Managing the skin cancer surge

Jeremy W Simcock

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BCG and bladder cancer

Peter J Gilling

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Original Articles

The Voice of Experience: Results from Cancer Control New Zealand's first national cancer care survey

Inga O’Brien, Emma Britton, Diana Sarfati, Wayne Naylor, Barry Borman, Lis Ellison-Loschmann, Andrew Simpson, Craig Tamblyn, Chris Atkinson

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Predictors of physical activity and quality of life in New Zealand prostate cancer survivors undergoing androgen-deprivation therapy

Justin W L Keogh, Daniel Shepherd, Christian U Krägeloh, Clare Ryan, Jonathan Masters, Greg Shepherd, Rod MacLeod

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Robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy: a 2010 update

James B Duthie, Joanna E Pickford, Peter J Gilling

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Immunohistochemical testing for colon cancer—what do New Zealand surgeons know?

Simon J Harper, Alison R McEwen, Elizabeth R Dennett

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A comparative analysis of cardiovascular disease risk profiles of five Pacific ethnic groups assessed in New Zealand primary care practice: PREDICT CVD-13

Corina Grey, Sue Wells, Tania Riddell, Romana Pylypchuk, Roger Marshall, Paul Drury, Raina Elley, Shanthi Ameratunga, Dudley Gentles, Stephanie Erick-Peleti, Fionna Bell, Andrew Kerr, Rod Jackson

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Pathology referrals for skin lesions—are we giving the pathologist sufficient clinical information?

Marius Rademaker, Murray Thorburn

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Review Article

Non-melanoma skin cancers in New Zealand—a neglected problem

Nicholas D L Brougham, Elizabeth R Dennett, Swee T Tan

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Viewpoint

Changes to the eligibility to bill on Medicare in Australia: a threat to New Zealand’s medical workforce?

Katie Elkin

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Clinical Correspondence

BCG sepsis following inadvertent intravenous BCG administration for the treatment of bladder cancer can be effectively cured with anti-tuberculosis medications

Ziya Akbulut, Abdullah E Canda, Ali F Atmaca, Haci I Cimen, Canan Hasanoglu, Mevlana D Balbay

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Isolated melanoma metastasis to stomach with possible regressed primary lesion: the importance of pursuing solitary melanoma metastases

James D McKay, Alf Deacon

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A case of a testosterone-secreting oncocytic adrenocortical carcinoma

Munanga Mwandila, Hayley Waller, Victoria Stott, Philippa Mercer

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Medical image. Varicella-zoster virus pneumonia

Hsi-Che Shen, Tsu-Tuan Wu, Sheng-Hsiang Lin

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Obituary: Thomas Hocken

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Proceedings

Proceedings of the Waikato Clinical School Biannual Research Seminar, Wednesday 13 October 2010

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

Sample, send, screen, survive—simple. Rotary Club-subsidised community trial points way to simple screen for bowel cancer risk

Derek Anderson, Frik de Beer

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Screening for diabetes during and after an acute myocardial infarction: when and how?

Lakshminarayanan Varadhan, David Barton

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Sugar consumption in New Zealand—with Thornley and McRobbie response

Winsome Parnell, Jane Dodd, Donnell Alexander

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Ultrasound-guided nerve blocks are costly

Geoffrey Horne

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Pelvic floor exercises

David H B Speary

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Obituaries

Graham Collingwood (Mont) Liggins

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Melvin Athol Brieseman

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