Canberra, July 9 -- More than 230,000 cancer deaths have been prevented in Australia since the mid-1980s thanks to decades of investment in cancer prevention, screening and treatment, a new study revealed.
The study, published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health yesterday, found that anti-smoking campaigns have driven a sharp decline in lung cancer deaths, while improved screening and treatments have reduced mortality from breast, cervical, and stomach cancers, said the study's lead researcher Brigid Lynch, deputy dead of Cancer Epidemiology at Cancer Council Victoria.
"What we're seeing is a snowball effect, we're now seeing the result of investments made in cancer control over the many decades," Lynch said.
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