The burden of cancer in Australia is wide-reaching; over the past decade, over one billion Australian dollars was spent on cancer research alone. But the real cost of cancer goes beyond the dollar value. In 2021, Australia recorded tens of thousands of cancer-related deaths, and it is ...
The mortality gap between Australia and USA grew from 1994 to 2010, with a total of 10,895 excess prostate cancer deaths in Australia compared with US rates over 17 preceding years. Prostate cancer incidence rates are likely heavily influenced by prostate-specific antigen testing, but the fall ...
According to the AIHW,2013a, Approximately 61% of all deaths are caused by cancer in the Indigenous population, whereas 57.2% of deaths were associated with cancer among non-Indigenous Australians .Cancer have a variety of potential influences on a person's individual conditions, comprising quality...
Australia-wide comparison of mortality rates in regional and remote areas compared with metropolitan areas from 1 January 2001 to 31 December 2010.Main outcome measures: Absolute and relative excess of cancer deaths in regional and remote areas.Results: The number of excess cancer deaths in regional...
The treatment strategy has the potential to benefit a subgroup of patients who do not respond to targeted therapies or immunotherapy for melanoma, the most dangerous form of skin cancer responsible for about 1,700 deaths in Australia each year alone, it said. ...
TUESDAY, Aug. 13, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Men, take note: Cancer cases and deaths among males will jump globally by 84% and 93%, respectively, by 2050, new research predicts. Published Monday in the journalCancer, the study found the increases were greater among men 65 and older and...
21 (Xinhua) -- A new blood test which is thought to be more accurate at finding bowel cancer could lead to a reduction in the number of deaths from the disease, Australian scientists have said on Wednesday. Researchers from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO...
In Australia, for example, prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men (>24,000 cases diagnosed in 2022) and a leading cause of cancer-related deaths (~3500 a year or ~22 deaths per 100,000 males) [4]. The estimated annual cost of prostate cancer treatment to Australia (2015–...
Smoking half a kilogram less tobacco annually per capita would reduce Australia's overall cancer deaths by 8 per cent over 20 years; Drinking three litres less alcohol annually per capita would reduce Australia's overall cancer deaths by 12 per cent over 20 years. Lead researcher Dr. Jason Jia...
1953–1957 was the reference cohort. In terms of LCM attributable to risk factors, we only extracted those of people aged between 30 and 79 due to the small number of LC deaths associated with each risk factor under the age of 30. The reference cohort was 1948–1952 for the LCM attributa...