Cancer Message Block
Newcastle Herald
Saturday December 15, 2007
CANCER prevention and screening messages are not getting through as well as they should, contributing to above average cancer death rates in the region, Hunter New England Health director of cancer services Dr Colum Smith says.
It was clear a lot more needed to be done to ensure the population reduced risk factors, he said.The comments follow the NSW Cancer Institute's latest report card, Cancer in New South Wales: Incidence, Mortality and Prevalence Report 2005.It showed Hunter New England men were more likely to die of all cancers than the NSW average, and from prostate cancer particularly. Gabriel Wingate-Pearse
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