Opinion | Aussie with metastatic breast cancer in favour of assisted dying

By Christine Nolan
Updated July 28 2017 - 1:37pm, first published 1:34pm
RESEARCH: "It is clear that the majority of Australians favour having the option of voluntary assisted dying".
RESEARCH: "It is clear that the majority of Australians favour having the option of voluntary assisted dying".

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in Australian women and kills more than 3000 women nationally each year. While survival rates have greatly improved in recent decades as a result of investment in medical research, unfortunately about 10 women in Australia are still dying of breast cancer each day.

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