AIHW Cancer Case Study

Cancer is second only to cardiovascular disease with respect to the mortality rate of the patients suffering with the disease. According to the statistics from AIHW (), it is estimated that about 126,800 new cancer cases will be diagnosed in 2015, in Australia, of which ~ 55% will be male. In their previous survey of 2012, AIHW had reported to have 43,039 death cases due to cancer among Australian population with 44% being females. This rate has been predicted to increase in 2015 to 46,570 with the relative projections of different cancer types being listed in the table T1. These projections indicate the urgency of consistent therapeutic needs to cure the disease, pathway to which has a number of challenges, biggest being the specific target
therapies against pathogenetically discrete tumor types with supreme efficiency but with minutest toxicity issues. Therefore, the molecular features underlying the disease are of key importance to rationalize a mechanistic approach for target dependent therapy.