Profile of our patients
Profile of our patients |
| When the PICS was first established, an audit was undertaken of the patient population accessing the services at the Children’s Cancer Centres at the Royal Children’s Hospital and Monash Medical Centre, Southern Health. Since then, the number of newly diagnosed children with malignancies has been rising in line with the population growth in children. In 2005, 159 children were diagnosed with cancer at the Royal Children’s Hospital and Southern Health, this number, in 2009-10 is closer to 180. The types of cancers being treated at the Royal Children’s Hospital and Southern Health remains consistent with the data collected in the first year that the PICS was operational. |