Explores performance of health system in relation to cancer control for Indigenous Australians in the Northern Territory; discusses data availability; cancer and the health system; risk factors; incidence, survival; diagnosis; treatment; reducing Indigenous cancer mortality; reducing cervical cancer mortality; compares cancer mortality, incidence and survival for Northern Territory Indigenous population with total Australian population; concludes differences between Indigenous and other Australians point to deficiencies in prevention, detection and treatment of cancer in Indigenous Australians
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Bibliography: pages 18-20
Notes
Also available online via the World Wide Web
Available on the OATSIH website at : http://www.health.gov.au/oatsih/pubs/pdf/5cancer.pdf
Commonwealth of Australia 2004
Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care Review, vol. 5