Breast cancer data reports

Breast cancer in Australia: an overview and Breast cancer report to the nation

• Breast cancer in Australia: an overview, 2012
  Publication date: October 2012
  Breast cancer in Australia: an overview, 2012. Data in this report provides a comprehensive picture of breast cancer in Australia including how breast cancer rates differ by geographical area, socioeconomic status, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander status and country of birth.
   
• Report to the nation – breast cancer 2012
  Publication date: October 2012
  Report to the nation – breast cancer 2012 provides an overview of current knowledge about breast cancer in Australia and includes a summary of national statistics on breast cancer in Australia from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and Cancer Australia report Breast cancer in Australia: an overview unless otherwise specified.
   
• Breast cancer in Australia: an overview, 2009
  Publication date: October 2009
  Breast cancer in Australia: an overview, 2009 brings together under one cover the most up-to date national statistical information available on the epidemiology, public health and health services impact of breast cancer in Australia.
   
• Breast cancer staging and treatment: Data linkage report
  Publication date: November 2010
  Report from National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre* and Victorian Cancer Registry reporting on the development and testing of a means of collecting Tumour, Node and Metastases (TNM) stage information for breast cancer by population based cancer registries. Includes an evaluation of the accuracy and completeness of the resulting TNM data.

National breast cancer audit

• NBOCC* and RACS National Public Health Monitoring Series 2008 data
  Publication date: August 2010
  Report from the National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre* and Royal Australasian College of Surgeons reporting on results from the National Breast Cancer Audit for 2008. Includes data for Australian women with early invasive breast cancer treated by breast surgeons participating in the National Breast Cancer Audit in 2008.
   
• NBOCC* and RACS National Public Health Monitoring Series 2007 data
  Publication date: March 2009
  Report from the National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre* and Royal Australasian College of Surgeons reporting on results from the National Breast Cancer Audit for 2007. Includes data for Australian women with early invasive breast cancer treated by breast surgeons participating in the National Breast Cancer Audit in 2007.

Other breast cancer reports

• Breast cancer risk factors - a review of the evidence (resource RFRW)
  Publication date: July 2009
  Breast cancer risk factors: a review of the evidence, an up-to-date review of epidemiological studies about risk factors for breast cancer, including gender, age, family history, place of residence, hormone levels, lifestyle factors, medical history and environmental factors.
   
• National Data Strategy for Breast and Ovarian Cancer
  Publication date: February 2008
  Report summarising National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre's* National Data Strategy to improve access to information about breast and ovarian cancer.

• Breast cancer survival by size and nodal status
  Publication date: October 2007
  Report produced by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australasian Association of Cancer Registries and National Breast Cancer Centre**, providing relative survival data up to nine years after diagnosis for women diagnosed in Australia with breast cancer in 1997.

** In February 2008, National Breast Cancer Centre (NBCC), incorporating the Ovarian Cancer Program, changed its name to National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre (NBOCC). In July 2011, NBOCC amalgamated with Cancer Australia to form a single national agency, Cancer Australia, to provide leadership in cancer control and improve outcomes for Australians affected by cancer.