Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2017) Cancer in Australia: in brief 2017, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 07 July 2022.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2017). Cancer in Australia: in brief 2017. Canberra: AIHW.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Cancer in Australia: in brief 2017. AIHW, 2017.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Cancer in Australia: in brief 2017. Canberra: AIHW; 2017.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2017, Cancer in Australia: in brief 2017, AIHW, Canberra.
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Cancer in Australia: in brief 2017 presents key points and trends from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare’s latest biennial report about cancer in Australia, Cancer in Australia 2017.
At the end of 2012, 410,530 people were alive who had been diagnosed with cancer in the previous 5 years
Five year relative survival from all cancers combined increased from 48% in 1984–1988 to 68% in 2009–2013
Lung cancer is estimated to be the leading cause of cancer death in 2017
In 2017, an estimated 47,753 people will die from cancer
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