Improving care for patients with oesophageal and gastric cancer: impact of a statewide multidisciplinary team.

Background: To standardize management of upper gastrointestinal (GI) cancer in South Australia, a statewide video linked multidisciplinary team (MDT) meeting was established in late 2009. Although cancer MDTs are recognized as a standard of care, it is important to audit their impact.

Methods: A retrospective audit of MDT outcomes and recommendations for patients reviewed by the upper GI MDT between 1 January 2010 and 31 December 2011 was undertaken.

Activity predicts male reproductive success in a polygynous lizard.

Activity patterns and social interactions play a key role in determining reproductive success, although this is poorly understood for species that lack overt social behaviour. We used genetic paternity analysis to quantify both multiple paternity and the relative roles of activity and social behaviour in determining reproductive success in a nondescript Australian lizard. During the breeding season we intensively followed and recorded the behaviour of a group of seven males and 13 females in a naturalistic outdoor enclosure to examine the relative roles of body size, activity and social interactions in determining male fertilization success.