Respiratory physician Lutz Beckert considers chronic obstructive pulmonary disease management, including the prevention of COPD, the importance of smoking cessation and pulmonary rehabilitation, and the lifesaving potential of addressing treatable traits. He also discusses the logic of inhaler therapy, moving from single therapy to dual and triple therapy when indicated, as well as other aspects of management
‘Unfair and fixable’: The heat goes on cancer gaps amid risk they will widen
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‘Unfair and fixable’: The heat goes on cancer gaps amid risk they will widen
Wednesday 14 March 2018, 10:24 AM
Researcher and public health physician Nina Scott says gaps in health outcomes are fixable: “We can totally nail this"
Treating Māori patients’ comorbidity effectively early on would ensure they are not delayed or undertreated when they have chemotherapy
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Tin Tin S, Elwood JM, Brown C et al. Ethnic disparities in breast cancer survival in New Zealand: which factors contribute? BMC Cancer 2018;18:58 (online 8 January)