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Treasury;Office for National Statistics

Answer

Mrs. Calton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment his Department has made of the incidence of melanoma by (a) age group and (b) strategic health authority. [157800] Ruth Kelly: I have been asked to reply. The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply. Letter from John Pullinger to Mrs. Calton, dated 5 March 2004: The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question concerning what assessment his Department has made of the incidence of melanoma by (a) age group and (b) strategic health authority. I am replying in his absence. [157800] The latest year for which figures are available is 2000. The numbers and rates of newly diagnosed cases of melanoma of the skin by age group are published in `Cancer statistics: registrations, England 2000. Series MB1 no.31. London: The Stationery Office, 2003' on the National Statistics website at: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/StatBase/ Product.asp?vlnk=8843&Pos=4&ColRank=l&Rank=240 This publication shows that 17 per cent. of melanoma cases occurred in young adults (15-39 years) compared with 4 per cent. of all cancers. Directly age standardised registration rates of newly diagnosed cases of-malignant melanoma of the skin2 in England by strategic health authority for 2000 are given in the table. Directly age standardised 1 rates per 100,000 population of newly diagnosed cases of malignant melanoma of the skin2 in England, by strategic health authority, 2000 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Strategic health authority Males Females England 9.7 11.2 Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire 10.8 11.4 Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire 9.3 10.0 Essex 9.6 13.5 North West London 6.6 5.5 North Central London 15.1 15.1 North East London 7.2 4.4 South East London 8.3 8.8 South West London 10.0 12.7 Northumberland, Tyne and Wear 6.4 8.9 County Durham and Tees Valley 9.3 10.9 North and East Yorkshire and Northern 4.3 7.2 Lincolnshire West Yorkshire 7.8 9.5 Cumbria and Lancashire 11.3 11.2 Greater Manchester 8.1 11.0 Cheshire and Merseyside 7.5 13.9 Thames Valley 14.8 17.1 Hampshire and Isle of Wight 12.2 15.7 Kent and Medway 8.4 7.8 Surrey and Sussex 10.0 13.8 Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire 11.7 13.1 South West Peninsula 17.7 15.8 Dorset and Somerset 15.2 17.2 South Yorkshire 6.9 8.3 Trent 8.6 9.5 Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland 9.9 11.3 Shropshire and Staffordshire 7.0 9.3 Birmingham and the Black Country 7.5 8.7 Coventry, Warwickshire, Herefordshire and 11.1 10.3 Worcestershire _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 Using the European standard population 2 International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) code C43. Source: Office for National Statistics

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

418 c1158-9W;418 c1174-5W; 157800

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Skin cancer

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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