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 what the mortality rate was for cancer in people under 75 years 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 asking what the mortality rate was for cancer in people under 75 years in each of the last 10 years. (41169)""The latest year for which data are available is 2004. Figures for deaths from cancer in people aged under 75 years are shown in the attached table for each year from 1995 to 2004."

Age-standardised death rate from cancer, in persons aged under 75 years, England, 1995 to 2004⁽¹²⁾
Calendar year	Rate per 100,000
1995	144.7
1996	141.6
1997	137.3
1998	136.0
1999	132.0
2000	129.0
2001	125.8
2002	124.4
2003	121.3
2004	118.7
The effect of the change in classification in 2001 on deaths from all cancer and cancer by site is described in an article published in August 2004.* * Brock A, Griffiths C, Rooney C (2004) The effect of the introduction of ICD-10 on cancer mortality trends in England and Wales ““Health Statistics Quarterly”” 23, 7–17.
⁽¹²⁾ Age-standardised to the European standard population.
⁽¹³⁾ The cause of death was defined using the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) for the years 1995 to 2000, and the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) for 2001 onwards. The codes used are listed as follows: Malignant neoplasms—ICD-9 140–208; ICD-10 C00 C97.
⁽¹⁴⁾ Data exclude deaths at age under 28 days.
⁽¹⁵⁾ Figures are based on deaths occurring in each calendar year.
⁽¹⁶⁾ The introduction of ICD-10 for coding cause of death in 2001 means that data for cancer are not completely comparable with data for years before this date. The figures presented in this table for the years 1993 to 2000 have been adjusted using comparability ratios to be comparable with ICD-10.

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Type: Written question
Reference: 41169; 441 c764-5W
Session: 2005-06
Subjects: Death Age Cancer Diseases Mortality rates
Contains statistics: Yes
Link: View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk

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