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Written question asked by Tracey Crouch (Conservative) on Tuesday, 27 March 2012, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 16 April 2012. It was answered by Nick Hurd (Conservative) on Monday, 16 April 2012 on behalf of the Cabinet Office.

Retinoblastoma

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of the number of people diagnosed with retinoblastoma in (a) Medway Primary Care Trust, (b) West Kent Primary Care Trust, (c) Kent and (d) England in each of the last five years.
Answer

I have been asked to reply on behalf of the Cabinet Office.The information requested fails within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.Letter from Stephen Penneck, dated March 2012:"As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking what assessment has been made of the number of people diagnosed with retinoblastoma in(a) Medway Primary Care Trust, (b) West Kent Primary Care Trust, (c) Kent and (d) England in each of the last five years. [103036]""Table 1 as follows shows the number of newly diagnosed cases of retinoblastoma in Medway primary care trust, the county of Kent and England, for 2005 to 2009 (the latest year available). To protect confidentiality, it is not possible to provide figures for West Kent PCT due to the small number of cases registered.""The latest published figures on the incidence of cancer in England are available on the National Statistics website at:""http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/publications/all-releases.html?definition=tcm%3A77-27451"

Table 1. Number of newly diagnosed cases of retinoblastoma, England, Kent and Medway primary care trust, 2005-09¹, ², ³, 4
Registrations (persons)
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Total
England 36 46 44 48 51 225
Kent * * * * * 5
Medway PCT * * * * * 3
¹ Retinoblastoma is coded as C69.2 in the International Classification of Diseases, tenth revision (ICD-10).
² Figures are based on boundaries as of February 2012 and exclude non-residents.
³ Newly diagnosed cancers registered in each calendar year.
4 Numbers under three have been suppressed, so potentially identifiable data are not revealed. A cell which has been suppressed for disclosure control is denoted by '*'.
Source:
Office for National Statistics

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
103036; 543 c135-6W
Session
2010-12
Subjects
Cancer Eyesight Retinoblastoma
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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