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Three charts on: brain cancer in Australia

  • Written by Melinda Tea, Research Associate, Centre for Cancer Biology, University of South Australia
imageAll brain tumours are associated with significant sickness and death, even if they are benign.from shutterstock.com

While survival rates for most cancers continue to improve in Australia, brain cancers aren’t seeing the same success. Australians diagnosed with brain cancer had around a 25% chance of surviving for five years from 2009 to 2013....

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