Finally counted: A milestone for Victorians living with metastatic breast cancer

Thanks Mez_BCNA​  .... That is absolutely astonishing!  How on earth can the various Gov/Health Depts possibly plan for future costings of Specialists, hospital beds, amounts of specialised drugs and all other associated costs - if they don't even know current numbers of all those with Mets, let alone where they are.  Grrrr

All they have to do is get all Pathology Depts to send a monthly listing of Newly Diagnosed Stage 4 patients to a central database - that will show where & how many there are .... to enable efficient & proper costings.

Hey Cath62​

What we do know is NSW has shared its methodology with the other states to support them to report on their data.

(I've taken a snippet below from ministerial media release)

By linking cancer incidence and mortality data with NSW clinical datasets, Commonwealth Medicare Benefits Schedule, Pharmaceutical Benefits Schedule and National Death Index data, the Institute was able to determine the number of people living with metastatic breast cancer in NSW.