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The EORTC Quality of Life Questionnaire for cancer patients (QLQ‐C30): Australian general population reference values

Rebecca Mercieca‐Bebber, Daniel SJ Costa, Richard Norman, Monika Janda, David P Smith, Peter Grimison, Eva‐Marie Gamper and Madeleine T King

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (11): 499-506 Free

Research

HPV vaccination coverage and course completion rates for Indigenous Australian adolescents, 2015

Julia ML Brotherton, Karen L Winch, Genevieve Chappell, Carolyn Banks, Dennis Meijer, Sonya Ennis, Karen Peterson, Rosalind Webby and Lisa J Whop

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (1): 31-36 Free

Research

Routine cervical screening by primary HPV testing: early findings in the renewed National Cervical Screening Program

Dorothy A Machalek, Jennifer M Roberts, Suzanne M Garland, Julia Thurloe, Adele Richards, Ian Chambers, Terri Sivertsen and Annabelle Farnsworth

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (3): n/a-n/a Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Surface antigen negative hepatitis B infection: the importance of screening before B cell‐depleting therapy

Sanjivan Mudaliar, Ken Liu and Simone I Strasser

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (10): 442-443.e1

Consensus statement

Hepatitis B management during immunosuppression for haematological and solid organ malignancies: an Australian consensus statement

Joseph Doyle, Michelle Raggatt, Monica Slavin, Sue‐Anne McLachlan, Simone I Strasser, Joseph J Sasadeusz, Jessica Howell, Krispin Hajkowicz, Harshal Nandurkar, Anna Johnston, Narin Bak and Alexander J Thompson

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (10): 462-468

Research

The burden of pancreatic cancer in Australia attributable to smoking

Maria E Arriaga, Claire M Vajdic, Robert J MacInnis, Karen Canfell, Dianna J Magliano, Jonathan E Shaw, Julie E Byles, Graham G Giles, Anne W Taylor, Tiffany K Gill, Vasant Hirani, Robert G Cumming, R Paul Mitchell, Emily Banks, Julie Marker, Barbara‐Ann Adelstein and Maarit A Laaksonen

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (5): 213-220 Free

Reflection

My patients prepared me well

Meagan E Brennan

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (3): 115-116

Perspectives

Let's talk about cytotoxic chemotherapy dosing: unravelling adjustments and off‐protocol prescribing

Angelina Tjokrowidjaja, Elizabeth Hovey and Craig R Lewis

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (2): 65-66

Research letters

Silent but deadly: patients with enterococcal bacteraemia should be assessed for colorectal neoplasia

Eugene Athan, Ivana Cabiltes, Sarah Coghill and Steven J Bowe

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (2): 86 Free

Letter

Clinical Oncology Society of Australia position statement on exercise in cancer care

Robert U Newton, Dennis R Taaffe and Daniel A Galvao

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (1): 54

Letter

Clinical Oncology Society of Australia position statement on exercise in cancer care

COSA Exercise and Cancer Group Executive Committee

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (1): 54

Narrative review

Radiotherapy and immunotherapy: a synergistic effect in cancer care

Guy‐Anne Turgeon, Andrew Weickhardt, Arun A Azad, Benjamin Solomon and Shankar Siva

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (1): 47-53

Guideline Summary

Methods of melanoma detection and of skin monitoring for individuals at high risk of melanoma: new Australian clinical practice guidelines

Nikki R Adler, John W Kelly, Pascale Guitera, Scott W Menzies, Alex J Chamberlain, Paul Fishburn, Alison E Button‐Sloan, Clinton Heal, H Peter Soyer and John F Thompson

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (1): 41-47

Letters

Retention of medical records of patients with high-risk medical devices

Rodney D Cooter, Ingrid Hopper and John J McNeil

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (10): 461

Letters

Hypertrophic lichen planus mistaken for squamous cell carcinoma

Emily X Shao, Benjamin Carew and James Muir

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (10): 462

Perspective

Medicinal cannabis for chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting: prescribing with limited evidence

Antony J Mersiades, Martin R Stockler, Ian N Olver and Peter Grimison

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (1): 11-12

Narrative review

Preventing ovarian failure associated with chemotherapy

Wanyuan Cui, Catharyn Stern, Martha Hickey, Fiona Goldblatt, Antoinette Anazodo, William S Stevenson and Kelly-Anne Phillips

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (9): 412-416

Guideline summary

Revised Australian national guidelines for colorectal cancer screening: family history

Mark A Jenkins, Driss Ait Ouakrim, Alex Boussioutas, John L Hopper, Hooi C Ee, Jon D Emery, Finlay A Macrae, Albert Chetcuti, Laura Wuellner and D James B St John

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (10): 455-460

Perspectives

Trials and tribulations: improving outcomes for adolescents and young adults with rare and low survival cancers

Adam Walczak, Pandora Patterson and David Thomas

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (8): 330-332

Research

Surveillance improves survival of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma: a prospective population-based study

Thai P Hong, Paul J Gow, Michael Fink, Anouk Dev, Stuart K Roberts, Amanda Nicoll, John S Lubel, Ian Kronborg, Niranjan Arachchi, Marno Ryan, William W Kemp, Virginia Knight, Vijaya Sundararajan, Paul Desmond, Alexander JV Thompson and Sally J Bell

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (8): 348-354 Free

Perspectives

All colonoscopies are not created equal: why Australia now has a clinical care standard for colonoscopy

Anne Duggan, Iain J Skinner and Alice L Bhasale

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (10): 427-430

Perspectives

Medicare-funded cancer genetic tests: a note of caution

Judy Kirk, Kristine K Barlow-Stewart, Nicola K Poplawski, Margaret Gleeson, Kathy Tucker and Michael Friedlander

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (5): 193-196

Study protocol

Cancer Molecular Screening and Therapeutics (MoST): a framework for multiple, parallel signal-seeking studies of targeted therapies for rare and neglected cancers

Subotheni Thavaneswaran, Lucille Sebastian, Mandy Ballinger, Megan Best, Dominique Hess, Chee K Lee, Katrin M Sjoquist, Wendy E Hague, Phyllis N Butow, R John Simes and David Thomas

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (8): 354-355 Free

Editorials

Improved relative survival of patients with B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma in Queensland, 1993–2012

Ian N Olver

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (4): 157-158

Research

Relative survival of patients with lymphoma in Queensland according to histological subtype

Fraser Wright, Greg Hapgood, Aravi Loganathan, Nathan Dunn, Shoni Philpot, Julie Moore and Peter Mollee

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (4): 166-172 Free