Mackay is officially the cancer hotspot of the country with residents in one suburb twice as likely to be diagnosed with the devastating disease compared to the average Australian.
The data was published in the Australian Cancer Atlas 2.0, a collaboration between Cancer Council Queensland and the Queensland University of Technology Collaboration. It comparatively models diagnoses from 1996 to 2019.
QUT Centre for Data Science director, Distinguished Professor Kerrie Mengersen, said researchers could now use the results, which also mapped differences in survivability rates, to understand why there were hotspots and then how to tackle them.
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