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Miss Boothroyd asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many hospital admissions for breast cancer and how many deaths from that disease there have been from 1973 to the latest available date.
Dr. Vaughan
Following are the figures:(1) Estimated total numbers of discharges—including deaths—based on a one in 10 sample of spells in NHS hospitals in England and Wales where the principal diagnosis was malignant neoplasm of breast.
| 1973 | 32,830 |
| 1974 | 33,260 |
| 1975 | 38,210 |
| 1976 | 38,680 |
| 1977 | 37,070 |
| NOTE: The principles applied on the acceptability of cases in the sample selected changed in 1977 so those figures are not strictly comparable with those in previous years. | (2) Numbers of deaths registered in England and Wales with malignant neoplasm of breast certified as the underlying cause: |
| 1973 | 11,495 |
| 1974 | 11,319 |
| 1975 | 11,719 |
| 1976 | 11,831 |
| 1977 | 11,918 |
| 1978 (provisional) | 12,007 |