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Ms Primarolo
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many cases of death from colorectal cancer have occurred in women and men in each of the last five years.
Mr. Sackville
I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave her on 24 March at columns 617–20 for figures for 1987 to 1991. Information for 1992, the latest year for which information is available, is shown in the table.
| Numbers of deaths from malignant neoplasms of the colon (ICD 153)1and malignant neoplasms of the rectum, rectosigmoid junction and anus (ICD 154)1by sex in England and Wales 1992 | |
| Number | |
| Males | 8,749 |
| Females | 8,654 |
| 1 ICD—International Classification of Diseases, 9th revision. | |