This report provides a wide range of cancer related statistics including historical data ranging back to 1982 and projections up to 2025; cancer mortality data ranges back to 1971 and cancer incidence projections up to 2035 available for selected cancers.
Amendments
21 October 2025 – The Excel file: Data tables: CDIA 2025: Book 1e – Long-term cancer incidence projections had an early version of the data used and as a result contained incorrect data, missing data for some cancers and some cancers included that will be released in phase 2 of the report release. The following amendments have occurred.
Updated data (counts and rates) for:
- All cancers combined
- Colorectal cancer
- Hodgkin lymphoma
- Lymphoma
- Myelodysplastic syndromes
- Myeloproliferative neoplasms (excluding CML)
- Rectal cancer (excluding rectosigmoid junction)
- Rectal cancer (including rectosigmoid junction)
- Rectosigmoid cancer
- Stomach cancer
The degree of change in some instances is minor while for others, including all cancers combined, is greater.
The following cancers have been removed and are planned for release early in 2026.
- Cervical cancer
- Gynaecological cancer
The Cancer rankings data visualisation had a typographical error corrected. Text within the dashboard previously read:
“Tables 1 and 2: Rankings are based on cases diagnosed, age-standardised ranking may be different.”
This was corrected to:
“Tables 1 and 2: Rankings are based on cases/deaths, age-standardised ranking may be different.”
17 December 2024 – On An overview of colorectal cancer in Australia, Figure 9 of 'Cancer data commentary number 12' was updated with a correction to the legend entries. The purple bar segments were incorrectly labelled as ‘Neuroendocrine neoplasms’ and the teal bar segments were incorrectly labelled as ’Adenocarcinomas’. The legend has been corrected so the teal bar segments are labelled as ‘Neuroendocrine neoplasms’ and the purple bar segments are labelled as ‘Adenocarcinomas’.
