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Reducing the impact of cancer in Indigenous communities: ways forward
Author(s) -
Lowenthal Ray M,
Grogan Paul B,
Kerrins Ellen T
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2005.tb06607.x
Subject(s) - indigenous , citation , cancer , medicine , family medicine , history , political science , law , ecology , biology
Haematology/Oncology, Royal Hobart Hospital, Hobart, TAS. Ray M Lowenthal, MD, FRCP, FRACP, Director of Medical Oncology, Royal Hobart Hospital. The Cancer Council Australia, Sydney, NSW. Paul B Grogan, Advocacy Manager. Cancer Control Programs, the Cancer Council South Australia, Eastwood, SA. Ellen T Kerrins, BNur, Executive. Reprints will not be available from the authors. Correspondence: Mr Paul B Grogan, the Cancer Council Australia, GPO Box 4708, Sydney, NSW 2001. paul.grogan@cancer.org.au The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025729X 7 February 2005 182 3 105-106 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2005 www.mja.com.au Conference Report Originally conceived by the Cancer Council Au internal event, planning for the forum tapped into a g concern about the poor outcomes for Indigenous Au cancer. This interest, combined with financial supp Australia and Northern Territory governments, the cer Control Initiative and the Cancer Council North nd the sta I igenous Australians with cancer are twice as likely to die from disease than non-Indigenous Australians. Because of this rk imbalance, the Cancer Council Australia recently convened the first-ever national discussion forum to address the issue. About 120 people from around Australia gathered in Darwin in August 2004 for the forum, “Reducing the impact of cancer in Indigenous communities: ways forward”. stralia as an round swell of stralians with ort from the National Canern Territory, turned the meeting into a major national event.