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AUSTRALIAN CANCER ATLAS 2.0 – Technical report

1 Preface

1.1 Suggested citation

Baade P, Mengersen K, Cameron J, Dasgupta P, Cramb S, Saunders T, Azad S, Aitken J. Australian Cancer Atlas 2.0 – Technical Report. Cancer Council Queensland and Queensland University of Technology. May 2024.

1.2 List of acronyms and abbreviations

ABS Australian Bureau of Statistics

AIHW Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

ASGS Australian Statistical Geography Standard

BYM Besag, York and Mollié

CCQ Cancer Council Queensland

ERP Estimated resident population

MCMC Markov Chain Monte Carlo

QUT Queensland University of Technology

PSA Prostate-specific antigen

SR Survival ratio

SA2 Statistical Area Level 2

SIR Standardised incidence ratio

SPR Standardised participation ratio

SSR Standardised separation rate ratio

1.3 Author affiliations

Professor Peter Baade is a Senior Manager at the Cancer Council Queensland and Adjunct Professorial appointments at Queensland University of Technology, University of Queensland and Griffith University.

Distinguished Professor Kerrie Mengersen is an Australian Laureate Fellow and Distinguished Professor of Statistics at the Queensland University of Technology, and Director of the Centre for Data Science at Queensland University of Technology.

Dr Jessica Cameron is a Research Fellow at Cancer Council Queensland and has Adjunct appointments at Queensland University of Technology and the University of Queensland.

Dr Paramita Dasgupta is a Research Fellow at Cancer Council Queensland.

Associate Professor Susanna Cramb is a NHMRC Emerging Leader fellow, a Strategic Research fellow at the School of Public health and Social Work, Queensland University of Technology and an Associate investigator at the Centre for Data Science at Queensland University of Technology.

Thom Saunders is a Senior User Experience Designer at the Visualisation and Interactive Solutions for Engagement and Research group, Queensland University of Technology.

Sarah Azad is a User Experience and Interaction Designer at the Visualisation and Interactive Solutions for Engagement and Research group, Queensland University of Technology.

Professor Joanne Aitken was formerly the Director of the Viertel Cancer Research Centre, Cancer Council Queensland.

1.4 Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank members of the Australian Cancer Atlas 2.0 project team for their contributions, and the advice provided by the Project Advisory Group. We also appreciated the ongoing support of the individual state- and territory-based cancer registries, the Australasian Association of Cancer Registries, and the other data custodians who provided data for this project.

1.5 Contact

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