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Melg
13 years agoMember
BC.... The " sexy " cancer
I feel the need to post after reading a letter to the editor of the Sunday telegraph today that has really upset me.
A very mixed up reader wrote " its up to funding bodies and the government to make ...
MandaMoo
13 years agoMember
Just to add
Here are the statistics from the Australian Bureau of Statistics - from 2002, 2006 and 2011 - There is no improvement in the number of womenand men dying fro the disease in that time. while diagnosis rates may have increased and proportionately it seems like less are dying, many new diagnoses are possibly cancers that would never have metastasised anyway. We are not winning this game at all.
| Breast cancer (C50) |
2 716 people
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2 643 people
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2 937
people
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