Complex Blood Cancer on the Rise in Australia

The number of Australians being diagnosed with a complex blood cancer is forecast to rise sharply over the next 25 years, new research shows. Some 80,000 people will have contracted multiple myeloma by 2043, an increase of nearly 15 percent on previous predictions. Mortality rates are projected to fall by about 27.5 percent, according to a to a study led by the Daffodil Centre in a joint venture between Cancer Council NSW and the University of Sydney. But, even so, about 28,000—equivalent to more than one in a thousand of the current population—will die from the disease, the research published in the Medical Journal of Australia found....