About 90% (Australian men) and 65% (Australian women) of lung cancers are attributable to tobacco smoking.3 It is projected that in Australia in 2019, 7,184 males and
In 2010, it was estimated that alcohol-attributable cancer was responsible for about 4.2 percent of all global cancer deaths, and 4.6 percent of all potential ‘Years-of-Life-Los
Survival from cancer is dependent on various factors including demographic characteristics, tumour type, stage of the cancer at diagnosis, other prognostic indicators and treatm
The MIR provides a crude measure of the fatality of a selected cancer type relative to other cancers (higher MIR values indicate poorer survival).1,2 The MIR can hel
Overweight and obesity is calculated using the Body Mass Index (BMI), a scale based on height and weight commonly used to define if a person is underweight, normal weight, overw
