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Cancer overtakes heart disease as Australia's biggest killer .
Cancer has become Australia's biggest killer, overtaking heart disease for the first time to take more lives than any other ailment, a government health agency said in a report released on Tuesday.
Lung cancer is Australia's most common fatal cancer.
Indigenous infant mortality rates, a key indicator of the general health of a population, fell 9 percent compared with figures in the previous report.
But at 6 deaths per 1,000 live births, they remain much higher than the non-indigenous infant mortality rate of 3.4 deaths per 1,000 live births.
Growth in health expenditure ran at 3.1 percent in 2012-13, well below the decade's average of 5 percent.
source: fox news (internet)
Lung cancer is Australia's most common fatal cancer.
Indigenous infant mortality rates, a key indicator of the general health of a population, fell 9 percent compared with figures in the previous report.
But at 6 deaths per 1,000 live births, they remain much higher than the non-indigenous infant mortality rate of 3.4 deaths per 1,000 live births.
Growth in health expenditure ran at 3.1 percent in 2012-13, well below the decade's average of 5 percent.
source: fox news (internet)
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