Monday, 8 March 2021, 1:54 pm
Exponents in Māori healthcare, a Māori MP and Māori
Cancer survivor will feature at this year’s Māori Cancer
Seminar in Rotorua.
The free event, hosted by Te Arawa
Whānau Ora (TAWO), is aimed at Māori health providers, and
will look at Māori cancer rates and inequities between
Māori and non-Māori.
Approximately 25,000 New
Zealanders are diagnosed with cancer every year. Nearly
3,000 of those are Māori, who are twice as likely to die
from cancer than non-Māori. Māori women also have one of
the highest rates of breast cancer in the world.