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Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy: an efficacious community-based group intervention for depression and anxiety in a sample of cancer patients

Greg R Sharplin, Simeon B W Jones, Barbara Hancock, Vikki E Knott, Jacqueline A Bowden and Hayley S Whitford

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (5): S79 Free

Supplement

Psychological distress (depression and anxiety) in people with head and neck cancers

Kate A Neilson, Annabel C Pollard, Ann M Boonzaier, June Corry, David J Castle, Karen R Mead, Marcelle C L Gray, David I Smith, Tom Trauer and Jeremy W Couper

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (5): S48 Free

Supplement

A nurse-assisted screening and referral program for depression among survivors of colorectal cancer: feasibility study

Patricia M Livingston, Melinda J Craike, Victoria M White, Amanda J Hordern, Michael Jefford, Mari A Botti, Carrie Lethborg and John C Oldroyd

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (5): S83 Free

Supplement

Prevalence and predictors of anxiety and depression in women with invasive ovarian cancer and their caregivers

Melanie A Price, Phyllis N Butow, Daniel S J Costa, Madeleine T King, Lynley J Aldridge, Joanna E Fardell, Anna DeFazio and Penelope M Webb, , the Australian Ovarian Cancer Study Group and the Australian Ovarian Cancer Study Group Quality of Life Study Investigators

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (5): S52 Free

Research

Survival from haematological malignancy in childhood, adolescence and young adulthood in Australia: is the age-related gap narrowing?

Ross Pinkerton, Rachael-Anne Wills, Michael D Coory and Christopher J Fraser

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (4): 217-221 Free

Clinical update

Gastrointestinal neuroendocrine (carcinoid) tumours: current diagnosis and management

Irvin M Modlin, Steven F Moss, Kjell Oberg, Robert Padbury, Rodney J Hicks, Bjorn I Gustafsson, Nicholas A Wright and Mark Kidd

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 46-52 Free

Obituary

Gregory Robert Mundy MB BS, MD, FRACP

Peter M Brooks, Michael G Loughhead and Allan J McLean

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 42 Free

Editorials

The ABC breast cancer cluster: the bad news about a good outcome

Bernard W Stewart

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (11): 629-631

Public health

Breast cancer risk among female employees of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Australia

Freddy Sitas, Dianne L O’Connell, Cathelijne H van Kemenade, Mark W Short and Kun Zhao

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (11): 651-654 Free

Corrections

It’s time to depolarise the unhelpful PSA-testing debate and put into practice lessons from the two major international screening trials

James W Denham, Ron Bender and William E J Paradice

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (11): 655

For debate

It’s time to depolarise the unhelpful PSA-testing debate and put into practice lessons from the two major international screening trials

James W Denham, Ron Bender and William E J Paradice

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (7): 393-396 Free

Research

Use of chemotherapy and radiotherapy in patients with pancreatic cancer in Victoria (2002–2003): a retrospective cohort study

Michael Jefford, Vicky Thursfield, Yvonne Torn-Broers, Trevor Leong, Mario Guerrieri and Tony Speer

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (6): 323-327 Free

Letters

Can prior vaccinations against certain infections confer protection against developing melanoma?

Michael G E O’Rourke

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 171-172

Letters

Desmoplastic small round cell tumour: an unusual presentation of an unusual tumour

Meena Okera, David Moffat and Sudarshan Selva-Nayagam

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 172-173

Letters

Evidence-based uncertainty: recent trial results on prostate-specific antigen testing and prostate cancer mortality

David P Smith, Emily Banks, Mark S Clements, Robert A Gardiner and Bruce K Armstrong

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 110

Book reviews

The “unfortunate experiment” in cervical cancer

Caroline M de Costa

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 75

Research

Symptoms and suffering at the end of life in children with cancer: an Australian perspective

John A Heath, Naomi E Clarke, Susan M Donath, Maria McCarthy, Vicki A Anderson and Joanne Wolfe

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 71-75 Free

Letters

Evidence-based uncertainty: recent trial results on prostate-specific antigen testing and prostate cancer mortality

Peter C Arnold

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 110

Book reviews

More than a patient’s story

Ruth M Armstrong

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 658

Christmas offerings

“The moment is all we have”: patients and visitors reflect on a staff Christmas choir

Clare C O’Callaghan, Colin J Hornby, Elizabeth J Pearson and David L Ball

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 684-687 Free

Letters

Impact of Australian celebrity diagnoses on prostate cancer screening

David P Smith, Mark S Clements, Melanie A Wakefield and Simon Chapman

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 574-575

Editorials

Can prior vaccinations against certain infections confer protection against developing melanoma?

John M Grange, Bernd Krone, Klaus F Kölmel and Giuseppe Mastrangelo

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (9): 478-479

Research

Initial impact of Australia’s National Bowel Cancer Screening Program

Sumitra S Ananda, Stephen J McLaughlin, Frank Chen, Ian P Hayes, Andrew A Hunter, Iain J Skinner, Malcolm C A Steel, Ian T Jones, Ian A Hastie, Nicholas A Rieger, Susan Shedda, Daniel J Compston and Peter Gibbs

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 378-381 Free

Research

Adenocarcinoma of the oesophagus: incidence and survival rates in New South Wales, 1972–2005

Efty P Stavrou, Heather J McElroy, Deborah F Baker, Garett Smith and James F Bishop

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (6): 310-314 Free

Health care

A pilot study of trimodality breast imaging surveillance in young women at high risk of breast cancer in Western Australia

Christobel M Saunders, Gudrun Peters, Glenys Longman, Jacqueline Thomson, Donna Taylor, Jianmin Hua, Michelle Bennett, Elizabeth Wylie, Jack Goldblatt, Arlene Chan and James Anderson

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (6): 330-333 Free