Cancer Statistics Released: week ending 16 october 2015 (edition 36)

 This month the Ministry of Health released 2012 data on cancer rates in New Zealand.    From a Māori policy perspective, key findings were that: during the year 2,105 Māori were registered with cancer; Māori had a registration rate of 415 per 100,000 people; 26.2% higher than the rate for non-Māori;