Cancer types
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)
Last reviewed: September 2015
