Due to the high burden cancer poses on the Australian community, it was announced as a National Health Priority Area (NHPA) in 1996, with the focus on the eight priority cancers below:

• lung cancer
• colorectal cancer
• melanoma
• non-melanocytic skin cancer
• prostate cancer
• breast cancer
• cervical cancer
• non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Other types of cancer can be found below:

• bladder cancer
• bowel cancer
• brain cancer
• endometrial cancer
• fallopian tube cancer
• gestational trophoblastic disease (GTD)
• gynaecological cancers
• kidney cancer
• leukaemia
• liver cancer
• lymphoma
• myeloma
• ovarian cancer
• pancreatic cancer
• stomach cancer
• testicular cancer
• throat cancer
• thyroid cancer
• unknown primary (secondary cancers with no known source)
• uterine sarcoma
• vaginal cancer
• vulval cancer.

Sources: Cancer Australia (All cancer types), Department of Health and Ageing (Cancer)