The report said survival was worse for Maori and Pacific men compared with non-Maori.

She said survival rates for prostate cancer are 250 percent lower for Māori than non-Māori.

Already officials have said survival was "very unlikely".

It said survival improved at both the one-year and five-year marks in each country across almost all cancer types.

Imposing a sentence of two and a half years, Judge Martin Nolan said survival was the main motivating factor in the fraud trade.