Men face an unacceptable 24 per cent higher risk than average of dying from prostate cancer in some regions around Australia, a damning new online calculator has revealed. The STARGATE tool developed by the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia shows men s fear of going to the doctor and poor access to health services in rural areas is a killer. Men living in the Queensland Outback, Ballarat, and Darwin face the highest death rates from the cancer which kills nine men every day in Australia. The area with the lowest rate five year survival rate of 75.7 is Ballarat in Victoria. While men living in the Baulkham Hills and Hawkesbury area of Sydney enjoy the highest five-year survival rate of 90.6 after being diagnosed with the cancer.
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