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Cancer Control
in New Zealand

www.moh.govt.nz/cancercontrol

Cancer is a major health issue for New Zealanders. One in three New Zealanders will have some experience of cancer, either personally or through a relative or friend.

Cancer is the second leading cause of death (29 percent) and a major cause of hospitalisation in New Zealand. There are about 18,500 new registrations of cancer each year, with the highest rates in the middle and older age groups.

New Zealand has developed a Cancer Control Strategy, which sets principles and goals to guide existing and future actions to control cancer.

Following the release of the Strategy in August 2003, the Cancer Control Taskforce was established to produce the New Zealand Cancer Control Strategy Action Plan 2005-2010, which describes in detail how the objectives of the Strategy will be achieved.

View more information on the Cancer Control Strategy and Action Plan

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Page last updated: 16 November 2009

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