Cancer registries in Australia.
Cancer registries are at an early stage of development in Australia. Population-based registries are located in New South Wales Registry and Western Australia, and of these, only the New South Wales Registry is fully functioning. A hospital-based registry is maintained in Victoria. We have a national cancer registry in principle but it will not be functional for many years. Preliminary statistics for New South Wales indicate a cancer pattern similar to Caucasian populations. Some epidemiologic surveys have been undertaken.
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