title: Cancer incidence and mortality in Indigenous Australians in Queensland, 1997-2006.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine cancer incidence and mortality in Indigenous Queenslanders.
  
  
  METHODS
  Assessment of indirectly standardised incidence and mortality ratios for Indigenous Australians in Queensland diagnosed with cancer from 1997 to 2006, compared with the total Queensland population.
  
  
  METHODS
  Standardised incidence and mortality ratios.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Compared with the total Queensland population, Indigenous Queenslanders had a lower overall incidence of cancer (standardised incidence ratio, 0.79; 95% CI, 0.75-0.82), but a higher incidence of some of the more fatal cancer types. Overall cancer mortality was higher (standardised mortality ratio, 1.36; 95% CI, 1.28-1.45) and similar to rates for Indigenous people in other Australian states.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Cancer rates for Indigenous Queenslanders, a mostly urbanised population, are similar to rates for Indigenous Australians mostly living in remote areas.
authors.affiliation: Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, QLD, Australia. Suzanne.Moore@qimr.edu.au
authors.forename: Suzanne P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Moore
authors.forename: Peter K
authors.initials: PK
authors.lastname: O'Rourke
authors.forename: Kylie-Ann
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Mallitt
authors.forename: Gail
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Garvey
authors.forename: Adèle C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Green
authors.forename: Michael D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Coory
authors.forename: Patricia C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Valery
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000401:mortality*; D011793:Queensland / Q000453:epidemiology