Lyn Allison (Victoria, Australian Democrats) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I, and also on behalf of Senators Ferris, Moore and Nettle, move:

That the Senate—

(a)

notes that

(i)

National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Week runs from Sunday, 25 February to Sunday, 4 March 2007,

(ii)

more than 1 000 women get ovarian cancer every year,

(iii)

between 1991 and 2001 there was a 23 per cent increase in the number of new cases of ovarian cancer and other cancers of the female genital organs, and

(iv)

the relative 5 year survival rate for ovarian cancer is less than half that for breast cancer;

(b)

draws attention to the Community Affairs Committee report Breaking the silence: A national voice for gynaecological cancers which was tabled in the Senate on 19 October 2006; and

(c)

calls on the Government to implement the recommendations in the report.

Question agreed to.