Cancer in Australia: an overview, 2006 (AIHW)

released: 28 Jun 2007 media release

Cancer in Australia: an overview, 2006 presents comprehensive national data on cancer incidence and mortality in Australia, and hospitalisation trend data from 2000-01 to 2004-05. The report provides 2006 projections on incidence and 2003 data for cancers by site, age and sex, with summary data for each state and territory. Prostate cancer and cancer differentials for rural areas analysed. The information in this report is supported by more detailed information in cancer incidence and mortality data cubes and workbooks on the AIHW's website www.aihw.gov.au. Cancer in Australia: an overview, 2006 is an important reference from the Cancer series for all those interested in the health of Australians.

ISSN 1039-3307; ISBN 978 1 74024 696 5; Cat. no. CAN 32; 144pp.; $26.00

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Online cancer data

Australian Cancer Incidence and Mortality (ACIM) books. These are Excel workbooks of tables and graphs for "all cancers" and the major cancers, for incidence from 1982 to 2003 and mortality from 1968 to 2004.
Cancer data cubes, with incidence numbers and rates from 1982 to 2003.
General Record of Incidence of Mortality (GRIM) books, with comprehensive long term mortality data on selected causes of death by age and sex for each year from 1907.
National Hospital Morbidity Database data cubes, which include information on the principal diagnoses, procedures and diagnosis-related groups of patients, including cancer patients, admitted to Australian hospitals from 1993-94 to 2005-06.

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AIHW 2007. Cancer in Australia: an overview, 2006. Cat. no. CAN 32. Canberra: AIHW.

Cancer in Australia: an overview, 2006

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