According to the Cancer Council of Victoria, in their studies of the Victorian 2005 statistics (Victorian Cancer Registry 2008 - Cancer Council Victoria):

• at least one in three Victorians will develop a cancer (other than non-melanotic skin cancer) by the time they are 75,
• cancer is the leading cause of death in Victoria accounting for 9,784 deaths (30% of the total),
• cancer is strongly related to age - 58% of tumours occur in people aged over 65 and less than 1% in those aged under 15,
• more men than women develop cancer - 123 men for each 100 women, largely due to more tobacco-related cancers in men,
• cancers of the prostate (16%), bowel (14%), breast (13%) and melanoma (8%) are the most common new cancers,
• cancers of the lung (18%), bowel (12%), prostate (8%) and breast (7%) are the leading causes of cancer death,
• breast cancer is the leading cancer in women (28%) as well as the major cause of death,
• prostate cancer is the leading cancer in men (30%), however, lung cancer is the major cause of death, and
  
• figures suggest that 61% of patients diagnosed in 2004 could still be alive in 2009.