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Mr. Gareth Wardell
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish for each of the last five years the number of new cases whose diagnosis was confirmed in that year for the following cancer types: (a) lung, (b) colorectal, (c) breast, (d) lymphoma, (e) pancreatic, (f) leukaemia, (g) ovarian, (h) melanoma and (1) cervical.
Mr. Nicholas Bennett
The latest available published information for usual residents of Wales are given in the table:
| Registrations of newly diagnosed cancer cases | |||||
| 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | |
| Trachea, bronchus and lung | 2,153 | 2,202 | 2,237 | 2,324 | 2,168 |
| Colorectal1 | 1,562 | 1,723 | 1,759 | 1,835 | 1,686 |
| Breast (female) | 1,505 | 1,541 | 1,532 | 1,711 | 1,532 |
| Breast (male) | 12 | 14 | 21 | 27 | 15 |
| Lymphoma2 | 284 | 364 | 319 | 416 | 355 |
| Pancreas | 349 | 404 | 438 | 395 | 381 |
| Leukaemia3 | 274 | 305 | 298 | 315 | 309 |
| Ovary and other uterine adnexa | 303 | 343 | 346 | 344 | 318 |
| Malignant melanoma of skin | 125 | 174 | 148 | 174 | 197 |
| Cervix uteri | 242 | 344 | 353 | 375 | 351 |
| Source: Welsh Cancer Registry. | |||||
| 1Includes colon and rectum. | |||||
| 2Includes Hodgkin's disease. | |||||
| 3Includes, lymphoid, myeloid, monocytic and other unspecified leukaemia. | |||||