This cancer plan sets ambitious goals, and provides a framework to improve cancer outcomes for all Victorians.

The Nurses’ Health Study, a cohort of 121,701 female registered nurses, was established in 1976 to prospectively address the relationship between the use of oral contraceptives and the risk of breast cancer. Through follow-up questionnaires every 2 years, exposures have been updated and new exposure assessments added. Repeated measures have allowed a broad range of...

Skin cancer in Australia provides comprehensive national information and statistics on skin cancer. It includes the latest available data and estimates to 2016, as well as trends over time. The report also describes risk factors, and presents a section on the limitations of non- melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) data in Australia, as well as future...

The Standards of Service Provision for Lung Cancer Patients in New Zealand have been developed to ensure that people with lung cancer receive the best possible care, regardless of where they live. The standards include requirements for investigation, diagnosis, treatment and supportive care. They also specify waiting times for lung cancer treatment, and promote a...

Overview This report examines the pilot year collection of radiotherapy waiting times for 2013-14. In 2013-14, radiotherapy was delivered at 72 different locations across Australia: 53 of these reported data to this collection 37 out of 38 public radiotherapy providers contributed. These service providers reported almost 47,700 courses of radiotherapy that started in 2013‒14. People...