Cancer data in Australia
Source: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, April 2025
Overview of cancer in Australia, 2024
The following provides a brief summary of some notable trends in the latest cancer data. More comprehensive data is available throughout the Cancer data in Australia report for the cancers summarised as well as many other cancers.
Please note that when survival rates are discussed in the summary that these are relative survival rates. Age-standardised incidence and mortality rates are standardised to the 2024 Australian population. All rates are age-standardised unless they are for specific age groups or are otherwise specified. All cancers combined incidence data excludes basal and squamous cell carcinomas of the skin. When discussing histology types, NOS is the abbreviation for ‘not otherwise specified’. The presence of NOS after a term generally indicates that a diagnosis is not as specific as it could theoretically be. For example, there are many kinds of adenocarcinoma but often the diagnosis is simply “adenocarcinoma”. This is referred to as “adenocarcinoma NOS”.