LMICS

According to the Cancer Council of Victoria, in their studies of the Victorian 2005 statistics:

• at least one in three Victorians will develop a cancer (other than non-melanotic skin cancer) by the time they are 75,
• cancer is the leading cause of death in Victoria accounting for 9,784 deaths (30% of the total),
• cancer is strongly related to age - 58% of tumours occur in people aged over 65 and less than 1% in those aged under 15,
• more men than women develop cancer - 123 men for each 100 women, largely due to more tobacco-related cancers in men,
• cancers of the prostate (16%), bowel (14%), breast (13%) and melanoma (8%) are the most common new cancers,
• cancers of the lung (18%), bowel (12%), prostate (8%) and breast (7%) are the leading causes of cancer death,
• breast cancer is the leading cancer in women (28%) as well as the major cause of death,
• prostate cancer is the leading cancer in men (30%), however, lung cancer is the major cause of death, and
  
• figures suggest that 61% of patients diagnosed in 2004 could still be alive in 2009.

Cancer statistics for the Loddon Mallee region in the year 2005

This first table shows number and percentage of diagnosis by Local Government Area.

This second table shows number and percentage of diagnosis for our priority tumour types.