Number of people with Cancer in Australia in 2018 - Around 3.3% of the population
Bill Shorten, future Labor PM it appears, released a new policy last night regarding Cancer treatment in Australia. He is proposing paying for Out of Pocket expenses via Medicare for Cancer treatment. Costed at 2.3 Billion Dollars over 4 years. Now that seems a little low for me. Most people report paying around $7000 a year in out of pocket expenses for Cancer treatment. So the first thing to work out is how many people are living with cancer in the Community. To find that out, we need the following info 1. A starting point (i.e a year where we know how many people there are with cancer) 2. Growth in New Cancer rates 3. Growth in Cancer Deaths 4. Obtain a rough estimate of how many cancers go into remission a year. Then we can answer our algorithm of Cancer people (Year N) = Cancer People (Year N-1) + New Cancers - Cancer Deaths - Cancer remissions In regards to Point 1 - Cancer Council stated that in 2012 there were 421124 people who had cancer. So we have a starting p...