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Treasury;Office for National Statistics

Answer

Mr. Havard: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people were diagnosed with multiple myeloma in each of the last 10 years. [215823] Mr. Timms: I have been asked to reply. The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician. I have asked him to reply. Letter from Colin Mowl to Mr. Dai Havard, dated 16 February 2005: The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question concerning the number of people diagnosed with multiple myeloma in each of the last 10 years. I am replying in his absence. [215823] The most recent available figures are for the year 2001. The number of newly diagnosed cases of multiple myeloma registered in the 10 years 1992 to 2001 are given in the table below. Number of newly diagnosed cases of multiple myeloma1 in England, 1992-2001 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Number of cases 1992 2,635 1993 2,688 1994 2,710 1995 2,820 1996 2,682 1997 2,701 1998 3,001 1999 2,889 2000 3,078 2001 2,859 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 From 1992 to 1994, International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) codes 203.0-203.1; from 1995 to 2001, International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) code C90. Source: Office for National Statistics In more detailed analyses of trends in incidence over time for a particular cancer, ONS use age-standardised rates. These control for differences in the size and age structure of the population and allow unbiased comparison of incidence rates over time. Age- standardised incidence rates (directly standardised to the European standard population) for multiple myeloma in England, for each year from 1992-2001, are given in Table 10 of the Annual Reference Volume, Cancer Statistics: Registrations, Series MB1 No. 32, which is available on the National Statistics website at: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme health/MBl 32/ MBl 32.pdf

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

431 c167-8W;431 c169-70W; 215823

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Cancer Diseases

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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