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Breast Cancer

Volume 410: debated on Friday 19 September 2003

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:To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the number of breast cancer cases diagnosed in the United Kingdom in each of the past five years. [131314]

:The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician. I have asked him to reply.

Letter from Colin Mowl to Dr. Julian Lewis, dated 30 September 2003:

The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your recent question concerning the estimate of the number of breast cancer cases diagnosed in the United Kingdom in each of the past five years. I am replying in his absence. (131314)
The number of registrations of newly diagnosed cases of breast cancer in females in the United Kingdom in the most recent five years for which data are available are given in the following table. The figures shown are for females only and exclude the small number of breast cancer cases that occur in men.

Registrations of newly diagnosed cases of breast cancer in females, UK, 1996–2000

Females

199637,000
199739,300
199839,500
199940,900
2000140,400
Data for Scotland for 2000 are not yet available. The figure for the UK has been estimated using 1999 data for Scotland.

Sources:

National Cancer Intelligence Unit, Office for National Statistics.

Welsh Cancer Intelligence & Surveillance Unit.

Scottish Cancer Registry, National Health Service in Scotland.

Northern Ireland Cancer Registry