The Australian Cancer Atlas

The Australian Cancer Atlas is a novel interactive map showing the incident rates of dissimilar cancers as well as their survival rates across Australia. The map makes it tardily for people to encounter where inwards the province incident rates of dissimilar types of cancer are higher or lower than the national averages.

Among the interactive map's many fantabulous features is a 'Tours' facility which provides to a greater extent than details close the information shown on the map as well as the geographical patterns inwards the diagnosis rates for dissimilar types of cancer. For illustration if you lot direct the 'lung cancer' tour you lot tin sentiment a choropleth sentiment of the average risk of beingness diagnosed alongside lung cancer across the country. As you lot scroll through the tour the map side-panel points out roughly of the geographical patterns of lung cancer, including those areas alongside significantly higher or lower rates of lung cancer than the national average.

The map carte du jour allows you lot to direct the type of cancer to sentiment on the map. You tin too direct whether you lot desire to sentiment the diagnosis rates for males or for females. The 'tutorial' sentiment provides a squeamish guide equally to how to purpose the map as well as how to navigate to the dissimilar cancer types as well as information views.