
2019 WINNER
JK Barrie Award for Overall Excellence

2019 WINNER
Oceania winner
Asia Pacific Spatial Excellence Award for Spatial Enablement

Explore
Compare how the burden of cancer varies across Australia

Interactive tours
Understand how to use and interpret the information in the Atlas

Discover
See the latest estimates for cancer diagnoses and excess deaths for each of 20 cancer types across 2,148 geographical areas

Innovative visuals
Identify areas where the cancer burden is lower or higher than the Australian average
What is the Australian Cancer Atlas?
Research studies have long shown that where people live can have an impact on their health and affect the likelihood of being diagnosed with chronic diseases, like cancer.
In 2011, an Atlas of Cancer in Queensland was launched and proved to be an important resource that influenced key policy initiatives designed to reduce the geographical variation of cancer diagnoses across the state.
While other state-based cancer atlases have been released, a need for a comprehensive Australian-wide atlas was identified to provide a national perspective of how the burden of cancer varied by geographical areas.
The Australian Cancer Atlas is a collaborative study funded by the FrontierSI (formerly the Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information), Cancer Council Queensland, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and Queensland University of Technology. The Atlas has additional support from the Centre for Research Excellence in Prostate Cancer Survivorship. It has been endorsed by the Australasian Association of Cancer Registries and Cancer Council Australia, and investigators access expertise from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers (ACEMS).
The Australian Cancer Atlas is a collaborative study funded by the FrontierSI (formerly the Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information), Cancer Council Queensland, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and Queensland University of Technology. The Atlas has additional support from the Centre for Research Excellence in Prostate Cancer Survivorship. It has been endorsed by the Australasian Association of Cancer Registries and Cancer Council Australia, and investigators access expertise from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers (ACEMS).
Liver cancer
What are the geographical patterns of liver cancer diagnoses and survival across Australia?
GOLung cancer
What are the geographical patterns of lung cancer diagnsoes and survival across Australia?
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123,311
cancers diagnosed per year
33,784
Excess deaths per year
2,148
Small geographical regions (SA2)
20
Cancer types