Abstract
Associate Professor Jason Gurney presented on the potential impact of changes to New Zealand’s smokefree legislation, outlining key survivability rates for Māori suffering from lung cancer, compared with non-Māori. Māori who are diagnosed with lung cancer are 30 percent more likely to die from the disease than non-Māori who are diagnosed. "The impacts on Māori are so great that lung cancer is not only priority #1, it is priority #2, #3, #4 and probably #5 too. If you add up the number of all Māori who die from lung cancer, it roughly equates to the next five most common cancers combined."