More Cancer and a Higher Mortality in Tasmania
"The age standardised incidence of all cancers combined in Tasmania - excluding non-melanocytic skin cancers
- increased by 37.6% during the 23-year period 1978 – 2000 (comparing 1999 2000 with 1978-1979, the increase was 33.7%
for males and 38.4% for females). Some of the largest increases were observed for prostate cancer in men and breast cancer for women."
Note: The escalating increase of certain types of cancers such as lymphoma, leukemia, breast, uterine and prostate cancers are
linked to agricultural and other synthetic chemicals. ... Cancers such as Non Hodgkin's lymphoma have gone from being one of the rarest cancers to one
of the fastest growing cancers amongst people exposed to agricultural chemicals. Short (1994), Colborn (1996), Cabello (2001), Buznikov (2001) Steingraber (1997),
Garry (2001), Hardell (1999) Harras (1996), Nordstrom (1998),
"Tasmania has the highest incidence and mortality from cancer of any Australian state or territory."
Source: The Tasmanian Cancer Registry, Menzies Centre for Population Health Research 2001. Cancer in Tasmania: Incidence and Mortality 1999. Hobart:
Menzies Centre for Population Health Research, University of Tasmania
http://www.dhhs.tas.gov.au/corporateinformation/publications/pdfs/better-future-for-cancer-control-tas-2004.pdf
Update:
"Trends for all cancers 1980 – 2002
The age standardised incidence rates of all cancers (excluding non-melanoma skin cancers) increased by 33.0% for males and 33.2% for females during the
22-year period from 1980 to 2002 (comparing 2001-2002 with 1980-1981). Some of the largest increases were observed for prostate cancer in males and breast
cancer in females.
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Source: Cancer in Tasmania, Incidence and Mortality 2002. Menzies Research Centre. http://www.menzies.utas.edu.au/Cancer/TCRReport2002.pdf
Note: Dr Alison Bleaney (GP at St Helens in North Eastern Tasmania) and Dr Marcus Scammell (marine ecologist for Sydney Water) found the
incidence of cancers related to endocrine disruptors like digestive tract cancers, breast, prostate and cervical cancer all showed a statistical increase post 2002.
[Source: Australian Financial Review. ‘PULP FRICTION SILENCES CRITICS’ Author: Julie Macken with AAP. Date: 02/03/2005]