Executive Director's Message, February 2022
Cancer should not need to be an equity issue
At present, the five-year survival rate for liver cancer is just 14 per cent for Indigenous Australians and 20 per cent for non-Indigenous Australians. It is estimated that 2,832 Australians will be diagnosed with liver cancer this year alone, with men three times as likely to be diagnosed as women.
While Australia boasts enormous research and clinical expertise in metabolic, infective, and inflammatory liver diseases, and is a world leader in the science and clinical practice of liver transplantation, there is not a single major program working on liver cancer.