How many woman get cervicalcancer in australia?

Question

cervicacancer

Answer 1

I think I heard the figure of 700 per year at one time.  not sure though

Answer 2

Early detection is the best protection from cervical cancer. Australia has one of the best national cervical screening programs in the world.

Every year the Australian Government and the state and territory governments invest more than $90 million in the National Cervical Screening Program. This investment has cut deaths from cervical cancer by around 60 per cent since 1985 and has halved the number of cases of cervical cancer.

Australia currently has the second-lowest incidence of cervical cancer and the lowest mortality rate from cervical cancer in the world.

The good news is that there is a vaccine that can immunize women from HPV, and thus drastically reduce the number of cases of cervical cancer every year.

Professor Ian Frazer is the developer of the vaccine for Cervical Cancer.

An Australian-made cure for cervical cancer, the second leading type of cancer among women and is one of the few human cancers known to be caused by a viral infection

In Australia all girls aged 12 and 13 in their first year of high school will be offered the vaccine, FREE of charge, which comes in three injections over seven months. The vaccine is most effective when given to girls at that age. "Catch-up" vaccinations will also be given to girls up to age 18 in schools and will be free to women up to age 26 through their doctors.