1 Population Accessibility to Radiotherapy Services in NSW Region of Australia: a methodological contribution Presented by: Dr. Nagesh Shukla SMART Infrastructure Facility, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia 2500 Dr. R Wickramasuriya (SMART, Uni-Wollongong, Australia) Prof. Andrew Miller (Illawarra Cancer Care Centre, ISLHD) Prof. Pascal Perez (SMART, Uni-Wollongong, Australia)
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Population Accessibility to Radiotherapy
Services in NSW Region of Australia: a
methodological contribution
Presented by: Dr. Nagesh Shukla
SMART Infrastructure Facility, University of Wollongong,
NSW, Australia 2500
Dr. R Wickramasuriya (SMART, Uni-Wollongong, Australia)
Prof. Andrew Miller (Illawarra Cancer Care Centre, ISLHD)
Prof. Pascal Perez (SMART, Uni-Wollongong, Australia)
• Cancer is estimated to be the leading cause of burden of disease in Australia in 2010,
accounting for 19% of the total burden.
• Cancer incidences increase with age and varies with gender
Introduction
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Source: NSW CENTRAL CANCER REGISTRY
Aged population
is at the risk of
cancer
• Percentage of aged (>50 yro) people (2011 ABS data)
Introduction - Spatial variation of population
• Population distribution, in general, is heterogeneously distributed in space
Introduction - Spatial variation of population
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• Population evolution happens in space and time
• Growth rates
• Immigration
• Cancer rates for different types of cancer varies overtime
Space-time effects on cancer incidences
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Regional Planning of Cancer Treatment services
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• As life expectancy continues to grow; the proportion of elderly people in the
population will steadily increase over the next decades– it is expected that the number of cancer cases will continue to grow
• Thus, the pressure on specialised treatment services will increase as well,
calling for better planning and allocation of healthcare resources
• Radiotherapy (RT) is an essential mode of cancer treatment and contributes
to the cure of many cancer patients.– Evidence suggests that 52.3% of all diagnosed cancer cases in Australia would benefit from
RT
– However, only 38% of cancer sufferers receive radiotherapy at some point after the initial
detection
– This is largely due to the travel distance/access factors to RT centres
Regional Planning of RT services
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• This research study proposes a methodology for location planning for RT
services with the help of:
– Population projections
– Cancer incidence rates estimation/prediction
– Road distance based accessibility to treatment centres
– Future RT demand estimation
Data Sources
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• Cancer incidence dataset (AIHW):– age group and sex specific cancer rates for all
and specific cancer types in Australia
– incidence, trends, projections, survival, and
prevalence
• ABS population tables:– Census community profiles
– Population projections
• Road network data from OpenStreetMap– It is a crowd-sourced initiative to collect and map roads, trails, and points of interest, with an
ultimate aim of building a geographic database
Data Sources
• Existing RT centres in NSW– The data about the existing RT treatment facilities is accessed from Department of Health,
Australia.
Data Sources
Proposed Methodology
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• Age-sex specific rate (ASR) for cancer incidence modelling
– Linear regression is used to model the past trend of cancer incidences
– Models have been developed for each age-sex group
– Cancer incidences data for years 2000 to 2009 have been used
• Assumptions:
– incidence is homogeneous across different local government areas (LGAs)
– ages were grouped in 5 year interval assumes that each age group is
homogeneous
– it is assumed that the past trends will continue in future
Proposed Methodology
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• Population projections
– These projections are based on the past trends (over a decade) of
• fertility,
• mortality,
• and migration trends
– the base population is projected into the future year annually by estimating the
effect of births, deaths and migration within each age-sex group
𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑟_𝑐𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑠(𝐿𝐺𝐴, 𝑡)=Population(LGA, t) × ASR(t)
Travel distance modelling - RT rates based on distance
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Distance in kilometres
Proportion of patients who received radiotherapy by distance from patient's residence to the nearest radiotherapy facility