Time to Count People with Metastatic Breast Cancer

7. Key barriers to national breast cancer stage and recurrence data In the pre-roundtable survey and throughout the roundtable event, attendees identified a range of key barriers and challenges, which must be addressed if Australia is to achieve national-level breast cancer stage and recurrence data. Discussion of the challenges to population-level stage and recurrence data informed the development of recommendations regarding what is needed in the short, medium and longer term to progress breast cancer stage and recurrence data capture across Australia. The key challenges and barriers identified by attendees in the pre-roundtable survey are summarised in Table 1, and a more extensive analysis is set out in Appendix C.

* CaT-Link AA Phase 1 are multi-sourced, enduring, linked data sets, including the cancer and treatment linked analysis asset (CaT-Link AA) rolled out through the AIHW. Phase 1 of the project aims to establish an enduring link between CaT-Link AA assist with cancer-related epidemiological research.

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