Head and neck cancers in Australia

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has issued a report, Head and neck cancers in Australia, which presents the latest available information on incidence, mortality, survival and hospitalisations. 

The total number of head and neck cancers diagnosed in 2009 was 3,896 accounting for 3.4% of all cancers diagnosed in that year.  In 2011, the total number of deaths from head and neck cancers was 944 accounting for 2.2% of all deaths from cancer.  In 2006–2010, 5–year relative survival was 68.2% for all head and neck cancers combined and in 2011–12 there were 8,478 hospitalisations where head and neck cancer was the principal diagnosis.