VICTORIA'S cancer burden is set to skyrocket by 53 per cent over the next 15 years, but people diagnosed will have a much better chance at survival, the Cancer Council says.
Due largely to Victoria's ageing population, 44,000 people are expected to be diagnosed with cancer annually by 2027, up from 29,387 in 2012.
However those diagnosed will have a brighter outlook with the Cancer Council projecting mortality rates to continue falling by one per cent annually.
Between 2007-2011, two in three Victorians with cancer - or 66 per cent - survived five years after diagnosis, increasing from 47 per cent 20 years ago.
Cancer Council Victoria CEO Todd Harper said research had driven a lot of the improvements in cancer detection and survival and the positives of preventative programs were shown in the results.
"The investment in research has enhanced our prevention, our early detection, our treatment of cancer and particularly the number of survivors," Mr Harper said on Friday.
"The other area I think we've been very successful is our efforts in prevention over many years, around smoking, around melanoma, all of those things are driving reductions in some of our most common cancers."
The success of screening program PapScreen has been largely attributed with a 45 per cent decline of cervix cancer in Victoria, with the state's incidence rate now among the lowest in the world.
With Victoria's cancer incidence rates growing, Health Minister David Davis said the state government was adequately prepared to handle the growing number of people requiring treatment.
Victorian Cancer Registry data released on Friday shows an average of 80 Victorians are diagnosed with cancer every day.
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