To the Editor: I note with interest the results of the study by Morris and colleagues comparing survival outcomes for patients with colorectal cancer treated in public and private hospitals.1
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- Austin Health, Melbourne, VIC.
Correspondence: niall.tebbutt@ludwig.edu.au
- 1. Morris M, Iacopetta B, Platell C. Comparing survival outcomes for patients with colorectal cancer treated in public and private hospitals. Med J Aust 2007; 186: 296-300. <MJA full text>
- 2. Cheng X, Chen VW, Steele B, et al. Subsite-specific incidence rate and stage of disease in colorectal cancer by race, gender, and age group in the United States, 1992–1997. Cancer 2001; 92: 2547-2554.
- 3. Keating J, Pater P, Lolohea S, Wickremesekera K. The epidemiology of colorectal cancer: what can we learn from the New Zealand Cancer Registry? N Z Med J 2003; 116: u437.
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