ALTHOUGH cancer is the disease group with the biggest impact on our health, costing us as a nation more years of life than any other, there has been a drop in the overall burden between 2003 and 2011, according to a report released by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW).
This represents a fall of around 10% and "this same pattern was seen across most individual cancer types," AIHW spokesperson Michelle Gourley said.
"However, this was not true for all population groups, with the cancer burden for Indigenous Australians worsening since 2003," she said.
"Notably, almost a quarter (22%) of the total cancer burden can be attributed to tobacco use."
Go to aihw.gov.au for the report.
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