Australian Cancer Incidence and Mortality (ACIM)

Name: Australian Cancer Incidence and Mortality (ACIM)
Creator: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Published: 2026-06-07
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/

AIHW Australian Cancer Incidence and Mortality (ACIM) - annual counts of new cancer diagnoses (Incidence) and cancer deaths (Mortality) by year, sex, cancer type, and 5-year age band.

Source: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare · Licensed CC-BY 3.0 AU · dataset id aihw.CANCER_INCIDENCE_MORTALITY

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curl -H 'Authorization: Bearer ak_your_key' \
  https://api.ausdata.io/v1/data/aihw/CANCER_INCIDENCE_MORTALITY

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?format=csv for CSV
?limit=1000 to fetch more than the default page
?start= / ?end= to window a time-series dataset by period

Full description

AIHW Australian Cancer Incidence and Mortality (ACIM) - annual counts of new cancer diagnoses (Incidence) and cancer deaths (Mortality) by year, sex, cancer type, and 5-year age band. ~50 cancer types from 1968 forward, including the major site cancers (breast, bowel, lung, prostate, melanoma) and rarer types. Each row carries 19 age-band counts as separate columns (Age_0_to_4 … Age_85+, Age_Unknown). Source: AIHW via data.gov.au.

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