Publications using our data

More than half of older adults with advanced lung cancer would be typically excluded from trial participation.

Aboriginal people were significantly less likely to receive surgery for lung cancer than non-Aboriginal people and had fewer attendances with a surgeon, suggesting a need to strengthen referral pathways.

Cancer risk for Australian smokers is significant, even for 'light' smokers. These contemporary estimates underpin the need for continued investment in strategies to prevent smoking uptake and facilitate cessation.

International variations in SCLC and NSCLC survival are only partially attributable to differences in the distribution of unspecified histology.

The results do not indicate that mobile phone use increased the incidence of parotid or other salivary gland cancers.

For both males and females, the probability of non-cancer deaths was higher among older patients, those diagnosed with localized cancers and where cancer survival was higher.

Small-area variation in breast screening invitation response rates exists for Greater Sydney and is strongly related to sociodemographic factors that, together with screening location features, could inform targeted attempts to improve invitation response rates.

Women with endometrial cancer who take statins after diagnosis may have better survival than those who do not use statins, however further research is needed to confirm this association.

Participants who were female, overweight, consumed less than the recommended five servings of vegetables per day, consumed ≤ 14 standard drinks per week, or did not meet physical activity guidelines were significantly less likely to have participated in screening.

Increases in the projected incidence counts of key cancer types are in part attributable to the increasing and ageing population.