OVER the past 20 years, breast cancer survival rates have “significantly improved” in the ACT and its surrounding region, a long-term study has revealed.
The study, titled “The ACT and South East NSW Breast Cancer Treatment Group Quality Assurance Project Report”, which summarised data collected from July 1997 to June 2017, found that the risk of a woman getting a recurring cancer after an operation and treatment for an invasive breast cancer has dropped 61 per cent in 20 years.
Supported by Canberra Health Services and NSW Health, the study also found:
Over a third (35 per cent) of all cases of invasive breast cancer were screen-detected;
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Outgoing Canberra Health Services CEO Bernadette McDonald.
In a message to her colleagues, Ms McDonald, who took on the role in late 2018, said she would be leaving Canberra and returning to her family in Melbourne.
“As many of you would know, the past year has been particularly tough for me, not only dealing with the uncertainty and anxiety of the pandemic, but also having to spend large periods of time apart from my husband and children,” said Ms McDonald.
“At one stage we were apart for eight months due to travel restrictions and my work in a high risk setting.”