Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2016. Radiotherapy in Australia: report on the second year of a pilot collection 2014–15. Cat. no. HSE 181. Canberra: AIHW.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2016). Radiotherapy in Australia: report on the second year of a pilot collection 2014–15. Canberra: AIHW.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Radiotherapy in Australia: report on the second year of a pilot collection 2014–15. AIHW, 2016.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Radiotherapy in Australia: report on the second year of a pilot collection 2014–15. Canberra: AIHW; 2016.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2016, Radiotherapy in Australia: report on the second year of a pilot collection 2014–15, AIHW, Canberra.
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In this report on the second pilot year collection of national radiotherapy data, data were received from 66 out of 74 service locations across Australia. These services contributed information on over 56,400 courses of radiotherapy delivered in 2014–15. For non-emergency treatment, 50% of patients started treatment within 10 days and 90% started within 28 days. For those who needed emergency treatment, 91% began treatment within the emergency timeframe.
69% of patients starting a course of radiotherapy treatment were aged 60 and over
Breast and prostate cancers were the most common cancers—50% of these patients started treatment within 10 days
58% of radiotherapy was curative (50% started treatment within 14 days, 90% started treatment within 33 days)
38% of radiotherapy was palliative (50% started treatment within 6 days, 90% started treatment within 19 days)
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