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Lung-cancer deaths among Aboriginal women a rising worry

Cancer rates are showing the effects of high Indigenous smoking rates

Victorian women of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background are more than three times as likely to die of lung cancer as their non-Indigenous counterparts.


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By Gareth Boreham

Source: SBS



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Victorian women of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background are more than three times as likely to die of lung cancer as their non-Indigenous counterparts.



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