Study finds rural cancer patients suffer from lack of facilities

Updated April 2 2019 - 3:58pm, first published March 29 2019 - 8:00am
Workers at the launch of the Radiation Therapy for Regional Australia campaign at the GenesisCare in Newcastle.
Workers at the launch of the Radiation Therapy for Regional Australia campaign at the GenesisCare in Newcastle.

Cancer sufferers in the Nambucca Shire are dying prematurely because of poor access to radiation therapy, with studies showing regional cancer patients are 35 per cent more likely to die within five years of diagnosis than city patients.

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