Anne Urquhart (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Before I ask that this motion be taken as formal, I inform the chamber that Senator Xenophon has been added as a co-sponsor to the motion. I ask that general business notice of motion No. 487 standing in the names of senators Bilyk, Ryan, Di Natale and Xenophon, for today, relating to International Brain Tumour Awareness Week be taken as a formal motion.

Leave granted.

I move:

That the Senate notes that:

(a) 26 October to 1 November 2014 marks International Brain Tumour Awareness Week and, in doing so, acknowledges the impact brain tumours have on patients, their families and the community;

(b) statistics show that:

(i) in 2014, about 1 785 Australians (1 060 men and 725 women) are expected to be diagnosed with brain cancer, with 130 new cases a year among young people 0-24 years old,

(ii) brain cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in people under the age of 40, and

(iii) between 2006 and 2010, people with a brain cancer had just a 22 per cent chance of surviving for at least 5 years; and

(c) approximately 2 000 benign brain tumours are also diagnosed each year in Australia, and that these may cause permanent disability or death.

Question agreed to.