Gynaecological cancer
September 26, 2012
ACCORDING to the latest AIHW
report, around 12 females are
diagnosed with a gynaecological
cancer each day in Australia.
Despite this grim figure, the
report did provide hope in that
survival prospects are improving.
The report shows uterine cancer
was the most commonly
diagnosed gynaecological cancer in
2008, followed by ovarian cancer
and cervical cancer, and that a
total of 4,534 new gynaecological
cancers were diagnosed in Australia
in 2008 (accounting for over 9% of
all new cancers in females).
Meanwhile, other report findings
demonstrated that the five-year
relative survival for ovarian, uterine
and cervical cancers has improved
over time and that Aussien women
diagnosed with these cancers have
better survival prospects than
women in many other countries.
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