In NSW someone is diagnosed with cancer every 13 minutes

More than 134,000 new cancers will be diagnosed in 2017, averaging 367 each day, according to the latest predictions from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. The all-cancer incidence rate will be 2.8 times higher than it was 35 years ago, shows the AIHW's Cancer in Australia 2017 report released Friday ahead of World Cancer Day on Saturday. The rate of new cancer cases will rise from 383 per 100,000 in 1982 to 470 per 100,000 in 2017, the report shows. Separate figures released Friday by the Cancer Institute NSW predicts 250,000 people across the state are expected to be diagnosed with cancer over the next five years. The rates were shocking, said chief executive and chief cancer officer at the institute, Professor David Currow. "In NSW, someone is diagnosed with cancer, every 13 minutes and cancer is responsible for a third of deaths across the state," Professor Currow said. Prostate cancer remains the most commonly diagnosed cancer among men, with 16,665 new cases predicted nationwide in 2017. Breast cancer is still the most common cancer among women, with 17,586 new cases predicted this year. Roughly 47,800 people will die from cancer in 2017, an average of 131 deaths every day, with lung cancer the biggest cancer killer, followed by bowel, prostate, breast and pancreatic caners, the AIHW report predicts. But death rates are falling. Overall cancer mortality has dropped from 209 per 100,000 people in 1982 to 161 per 100,000 in 2017, and the five-year survival rate has risen from less than half of all cancer patients in 1984