| ABS | Australia Bureau of Statistics |
| APC | Age–Period–Cohort model |
| CAR | Conditional autoregressive |
| DIC | Deviance Information Criteria |
| ICD | International Classification of Diseases |
| IRSD | Index of relative socio-economic disadvantage |
| LGA | Local Government Areas |
| MAPE | Mean absolute percentage error |
| MSE | Mean squared error |
| RMSE | Root mean squared error |
| SES | Socio-economic status |
| VCR | Victorian Cancer Registry |