Small cell lung cancer: patterns of care and their influence on survival - 25 years experience of a single Australian oncology unit.

Aim: Evidence supporting improved outcomes for small cell lung cancer (SCLC) in recent decades is limited. This study aimed to identify patterns of care and survival over two time periods; 1 January 1987 to 31 December 1996 (cohort A) and 1 January 1997 to 31 December 2006 9 (cohort B).

Methods: Patients' characteristics, management and outcome data were extracted from the Hospital Cancer Registry and clinical records.

Myeloid leukaemia treatment and survival--the South Australian experience, 1977 to 2002.

Objective: To evaluate trends in survival and treatment for myeloid leukaemia in South Australia during 1977-2002, using population-based survival data plus data on survival and treatment of patients at three teaching hospitals.

Methods: Population data were analysed using relative survival methods and hospital registry data using disease-specific survival. Univariate and multivariable analyses were undertaken.

Reasons for lower survival from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma among older patients.

Cancer-registry data for 710 patients, treated for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) at a South Australian teaching hospital between 1977 and 2000, gave a five-year disease-specific survival of 53%, which was similar to population based estimates for Australia, the USA, and Europe. This figure reduced with age at diagnosis from 69% for patients less than 40 years at diagnosis to 30% for those aged 80 years or more. Multivariable analysis indicated that older age was predictive of lower survival (p<0.