Cancer incidence by country and region of birth report contents
This page provides the Table of Contents for the Cancer incidence by country and region of birth report. The report was released in 2024 and relates to data available at the time. More recent data is available in the Cancer incidence by country and region of birth data visualisation.
Cancer incidence by country and region of birth report contents
- Report Summary - a one-page overview of key findings of cancer incidence by country and region of birth in Australia.
- Report Introduction - discusses the objectives and scope of the report.
- General information about the data - summarises some of the key data quality challenges for country and region of birth data.
- Comparing the Australia-born and overseas-born cancer incidence - compares the Australia-born cancer incidence with overseas-born incidence.
- Cancer incidence by country and region of birth for all cancers combined and Australia’s most common cancers - discusses country and region of birth differences for all cancers combined, prostate cancer, breast cancer, colorectal cancer, melanoma of the skin, lung cancer (males), and lung cancer (females).
- Cancer incidence by country and region of birth for selected cancers - the selected cancers are non-Hodgkin lymphoma, kidney cancer, pancreatic cancer, thyroid cancer, liver cancer, stomach cancer, bladder cancer, uterine cancer, ovarian cancer and serous carcinomas of the fallopian tube, and nasopharyngeal cancer.
- Cancer incidence for selected countries and regions of birth - the Central Asia and Melanesia regions of birth were excluded from report analysis but are discussed in this section.
- Appendix A: Technical considerations for interpreting these data - a more detailed list of data quality and data limitations.
- Appendix B: Data quality statement - includes sections about the Australian Cancer Database, the classifications used to define country and region of birth, rates of not stated country of birth by cancer across reporting periods.
- Appendix C: Statistical methods - discusses incidence rates used, confidence intervals and imputation of country and region of birth counts and rates.
- Appendix D: Populations - provides the standard populations used and the Australian population composition by country and region of birth.