THE RUDD Government has announced cancer patients in Bendigo, Wodonga, Coffs Harbour, Port Macquarie and Hobart will be able to benefit from new cancer treatments as part of clinical cancer trials.
The government announced on Daffodil Day funding of $450,000 to increase regional access to the cancer clinical trials undertaken by Australia's existing Multi-site Collaborative National Cancer Clinical Trials Groups.
This means patients in regional areas can now benefit from new cancer treatments which have previously only been offered to city locations.
The Regional Multi-site Clinical Trials Capacity Building Network includes the Bendigo Health Care Group and the Border Medical Oncology Research (Wodonga) in Victoria, the two North Coast Cancer Institutes at Coffs Harbour Health Campus and Port Macquarie Base Hospital in NSW, and the Royal Hobart Hospital in Tasmania.
Cancer remains one of Australia's biggest health problems and the chances are you know someone whose life is affected by this terrible disease. An estimated one in two men and one in three women will be diagnosed with cancer by the age of 85.
An estimated 111,000 new cases of cancer will be diagnosed in Australia in 2009.
Cancer is a leading cause of death in Australia, with more than 42,000 people expected to die from cancer in 2009.
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