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Written question asked by John Baron (Conservative) on Monday, 9 January 2006, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 12 January 2006. It was answered by John Healey (Labour) on Thursday, 12 January 2006 on behalf of the Office for National Statistics.

Cancer

Question
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people were diagnosed with (a) prostate cancer, (b) breast cancer, (c) bowel cancer, (d) lung cancer and (e) all other cancers in each of the last 10 years.
Answer

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 12 January 2006:"As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent question concerning how many people were diagnosed with (a) prostate cancer, (b) breast cancer, (c) bowel cancer, (d) lung cancer and (e) all other cancers in each of the last 10 years.(41166)""The most recent available information on registration of newly diagnosed cases (incidence) is for the year 2003. Numbers of newly diagnosed cases of selected cancers registered in England and Wales between 1994 and 2003 are given in the attached table."

Number of newly diagnosed cases of selected cancers registered in England and Wales, 1994–2003
Prostate Breast Colorectal (bowel) Lung All other cancers
Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female
1994 19,399 31,671 14,811 14,093 23,314 12,297 54,622 54,114
1995 19,239 31,834 15,013 13,917 22,481 12,432 54,679 54,211
1996 20,098 32,393 15,547 14,353 21,398 12,117 54,518 53,852
1997 19,501 33,457 15,837 14,123 21,180 12,223 55,255 54,967
1998 20,597 34,822 16,266 14,757 20,768 12,559 56,365 55,046
1999 22,403 36,438 16,507 14,731 20,445 12,566 57,055 56,092
2000 24,726 35,888 16,653 14,255 20,311 12,880 57,599 56,574
2001 27,773 36,392 16,174 13,943 19,758 12,719 56,685 56,432
2002 28,577 36,659 16,276 13,928 19,182 12,634 56,297 55,715
2003 28,810 38,864 16,636 13,906 18,841 13,071 56,841 56,748
Source: Office for National Statistics
(1) Cancers registered in 1994 and 1995–2003 are, respectively, defined by codes in the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (IC.D9) and Tenth Revision (JCDI0). Therefore, prostate cancer is defined by codes 185 or C61, breast cancer by codes 174 or C50, colorectal (bowel) cancer by codes 153–154 or C18-C21 and lung cancer by codes 162 or C33-C34.
(2)““All other cancers”” are defined by codes 140–208 or COO-C97 (excluding non-melanoma skin cancer 173 or C44 and excluding the codes in footnote 1 above).

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
41166; 441 c762W
Session
2005-06
Subjects
Breast cancer Cancer Diagnosis Diseases Gender Prostate cancer Lung cancer Bowel cancer
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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