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Cancer publications

List of publications about cancer.

Delivering better cancer care
Booklet published April 2010.
Information booklet about cancer and what the government is doing about it.

Evaluation of the National External Breast Prostheses Reimbursement Program
5 November 2010
This report presents the key findings and proposals of the independent evaluator of the National External Breast Prostheses Reimbursement Program in relation to the program's administration and impact in its first year of operation.

Cancer in Australia: an overview, 2010
Cancer series no. 60, published 2010.
This report provides a comprehensive overview of national statistics on cancer in Australia. The report presents the latest available statistics on cancer overall, as well as on many individual types of cancers, and includes information on incidence, mortality, survival, prevalence and burden of cancer, hospitalisations, and national cancer screening programs.

Cancer survival and prevalence in Australia: cancers diagnosed from 1982 to 2004
Cancer series no. 42, published 2008.
This report presents national cancer data on relative survival and prevalence in Australia for invasive cancers other than non-melanoma skin cancer.

Cancer incidence projections Australia 2002-2011
Published 2005.
This report presents detailed projections of cancer incidence for major cancers based on trends in national cancer incidence data from 1982 to 2001.

Selected chronic diseases among Australia's children
AIHW bulletin no. 29, published 2005.
This bulletin presents information on the incidence, prevalence and trends for three of the major chronic diseases among children - asthma, diabetes and cancer.

National service improvement framework for cancer (summary and full report)
Published 2005.

Breast cancer in Australia: an overview, 2009
Cancer series no. 50, published 2009.
This report provides a comprehensive picture of breast cancer in Australia including how breast cancer rates differ by Indigenous status, country of birth and geographic area.

Breast cancer survival by size and nodal status in Australia
Cancer series no. 39, published 2007.
This publication discusses breast cancer survival by size and nodal status, providing relative survival data up to nine years after diagnosis for women diagnosed in Australia with breast cancer in 1997.

Ovarian cancer in Australia: an overview, 2010
Authored by AIHW & National Breast Cancer Centre, published 2010.
This report provides a comprehensive picture of ovarian cancer in Australia including how ovarian cancer rates differ by age, Indigenous status, country of birth, socioeconomic status and geographical area.

Non-melanoma skin cancer: general practice consultations, hospitalisation and mortality
Cancer series no. 43, published 2008.
Non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) is the most common cancer diagnosed in Australia, with around 400,000 new cases per year. However, data on incidence and prevalence are not routinely collected. This report analyses data on NMSC available from the national general practice, hospitalisation and mortality collections to illustrate the burden of NMSC in Australia.

Cancer screening publications are available on the cancer screening website where you will find BreastScreen resources, National Cervical Cancer Screening Program resources and Bowel Cancer Screening resources.

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