Volume 169 Issue 1

Editorials

• Cancer control in Australia Alan S Coates (MJA 1998; 169: 8-9)
• Prostate-specific antigen testing for prostate cancer: the case for informed consent Margaret McCredie, Brian Cox (MJA 1998; 169: 9-10)
• Management of localised prostate cancer: state of the art Mark Frydenberg, Gillian Duchesne, Phillip D Stricker (MJA 1998; 169: 11-12)
• Delays in referral for palliative radiotherapy Michael B Barton, Paul A Glare (MJA 1998; 169: 12-13)
• Colorectal cancer screening in average-risk, asymptomatic Australians Judith A Collett, John K Olynyk (MJA 1998; 169: 14-15)

Research

• Prostate cancer in Western Australia: trends in incidence and mortality from 1985 to 1996 Timothy J Threlfall, Dallas R English, Ian L Rouse (MJA 1998; 169: 21-24) Abstract - Article

Healthcare

• Do general practitioners use prostate-specific antigen as a screening test for early prostate cancer? Jeanette E Ward, Leena Gupta, Nicholas J Taylor (MJA 1998; 169: 29-31)
• Symptom duration and delay in referral for palliative radiotherapy in cancer patients: a pilot study Andrew Wirth, Jennifer G Smith, David L Ball, Hedy Mameghan, June Corry, David L M Bernshaw, Roslyn M Drummond (MJA 1998; 169: 32-36)

Medicine and the Community

• Colorectal cancer: a survey of community beliefs and behaviours in Victoria Robert J S Thomas, Valerie A Clarke (MJA 1998; 169: 37-40)

Personal View

• What price, compassion? Mohamed H Khadra (MJA 1998; 169: 42-43)

Clinical Practice

• Management of metastatic prostate cancer Mark A Rosenthal (MJA 1998; 169: 46-50)