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Prostate Cancer

Answer

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.Letter from Stephen Penneck:"As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking what the (a) age-standardised incidence rate for prostate cancer and (b) number of diagnoses of prostate cancer was in (i) each strategic health authority area, (ii) each primary care trust area and (iii) each constituency in each year since 1997. [317709]""The latest available figures for newly diagnosed cases of prostate cancer (incidence) are for the year 2007. Please note that these numbers may not be the same as the number of people diagnosed with cancer, because one person may be diagnosed with more than one cancer.""Cancer incidence rates for strategic health authorities can only be calculated from 2002 onwards and for primary care organisations and parliamentary constituencies from 2001 onwards due to the availability of mid-year population estimates for those areas.""The number of cases in parliamentary constituencies has not been given for individual years in line with policy on protecting confidentiality within patients' data.""The tables attached provide the age-standardised incidence rate per 100,000 population, for prostate cancer, for (i) strategic health authorities in England, for the years 2002 to 2007 (Table 1), (ii) primary care organisations in England for the years 2001 to 2007 (Table 2), and (iii) parliamentary constituencies in England for the years 2001 to 2007 combined (Table 3), the number of diagnoses (incidence) for prostate cancer for (i) strategic health authorities in England and (ii) primary care organisations in England, for the years 1997-2007 (Tables 4 and 5), and (iii) parliamentary constituencies in England for the years 1997-02 and 2003-07 combined (Table 6).""A copy of Tables 2, 3, 5 and 6 has been placed in the House of Commons Library."

Table 1: Age-standardised incidence rates per 100,000 population, prostate cancer, strategic health authorities in England, 2002-07¹,²,³,4
Cases per 100,000 (males)
	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
North East	90	97	86	93	86	86
North West	88	90	108	101	104	96
Yorkshire and the Humber	89	89	101	96	101	97
East Midlands	84	82	94	99	101	99
West Midlands	102	102	109	104	105	97
East of England	99	95	99	101	100	99
London	96	96	98	93	95	94
South East Coast	88	88	92	89	93	91
South Central	110	107	116	99	106	99
South West	110	112	116	104	110	108
¹ Age-standardised incidence rates per 100,000 population, standardised to the European Standard Population. Age-standardised rates are used to allow comparison between populations which may contain different proportions of people of different ages. ² Prostate cancer is coded as C61 in the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10). ³ Based on boundaries as of 2009. 4 Based on newly diagnosed cases registered in each calendar year.

Table 4: Registrations of newly diagnosed cases of prostate cancer, males, strategic health authorities in England, 1997-2007¹,²,³
Males
	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
North East	897	1,066	1,234	1,249	1,415	1,404	1,499	1,365	1,471	1,385	1,394
North West	2,555	2,627	2,846	3,107	3,657	3,533	3,631	4,400	4,177	4,329	4,058
Yorkshire and the Humber	1,860	1,825	1,940	2,394	2,664	2,647	2,697	3,059	2,944	3,129	3,064
East Midlands	1,465	1,531	1,751	1,971	2,152	2,185	2,147	2,528	2,672	2,809	2,793
West Midlands	2,091	2,252	2,415	2,741	3,096	3,254	3,299	3,547	3,427	3,516	3,305
East of England	2,275	2,276	2,630	2,974	3,257	3,367	3,309	3,459	3,579	3,623	3,611
London	2,614	2,673	2,766	2,832	3,133	3,172	3,160	3,252	3,089	3,133	3,117
South East Coast	2,098	2,008	2,254	2,331	2,501	2,368	2,380	2,498	2,408	2,546	2,555
South Central	1,488	1,648	1,831	2,071	2,398	2,401	2,373	2,619	2,262	2,463	2,348
South West	2,641	2,537	2,698	2,886	3,638	3,813	3,899	4,095	3,752	4,022	3,956
¹ Prostate cancer is coded as C61 in the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10). ² Based on boundaries as of 2009. ³ Based on newly diagnosed cases registered in each calendar year.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

506 c166-8W; 317709

Session

2009-10

Subjects

Prostate cancer

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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