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Brain cancer overtakes leukaemia as biggest cause of cancer death in children

World’s most up-to-date cancer statistics released.

More children are dying from brain cancer than leukaemia, despite leukaemia diagnoses being double that of brain cancer, a new report on the latest cancer trends by Cancer Council Victoria has revealed.

The data were published today by the Victorian Cancer Registry as part of its publication, Cancer in Victoria: Statistics and Trends 2018, which contains the world’s most up-to-date cancer incidence and mortality information.

Victorian Cancer Registry Director, Professor Sue Evans said the report showed that cancer incidence is set to increase in the coming years.

09 Dec 2019
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