Cancer in Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people of Australia

Between 2009 and 2013, an average of 1,279 new cancer cases were diagnosed each year in Indigenous Australians

In 2011–2015, Indigenous Australians were 1.4 times as likely to die from cancer as non-Indigenous Australians

Between 2011 and 2015, there was an average of 551 cancer-related deaths each year for Indigenous Australians

In 2007–2014, Indigenous Australians had lower five-year relative survival compared with non-Indigenous Australians