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Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 15 January 2007:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking how many diagnoses of skin cancer there were in each year since 1996. (113870)
The latest available figures for newly diagnosed cases of cancer (incidence) are for the year 2004. Figures showing the number of cases of melanoma skin cancer registered in England, for the years 1996 to 2004, are given in the table below.
Numbers 1996 4,708 1997 5,010 1998 5,116 1999 5,289 2000 5,940 2001 6,339 2002 6,541 2003 6,732 2004 7,363 1 Melanoma skin cancer is defined as code C43 in the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD 10). Source: Office for National Statistics
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Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 15 January 2007:
As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking what the mortality rate for skin cancer cases was in the UK in each year since 1996. (113871)
The most recent year for which figures are available is 2005. The attached table shows the age-standardised death rate from malignant skin cancer in the United Kingdom for the years 1996 to 2005.
Death rate per million population 1996 27 1997 27 1998 28 1999 28 2000 28 2001 28 2002 28 2003 29 2004 29 2005 29 1 Rate per million population standardised to the European Standard Population. 2 Selected using the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) codes 172-173 for the years 1996 to 2000 for England and Wales and Northern Ireland and for the years 1996 to 1999 for Scotland, and Tenth Revision (ICD-10) codes C43-C44 from 2001 onwards for England and Wales and Northern Ireland, and from 2000 onwards for Scotland. The introduction of ICD-10 for coding cause of death in 2000 for Scotland and 2001 for England and Wales and Northern Ireland, means that figures are not completely comparable with data for years prior to this date. Comparisons between the data before and after 2000 or 2001 should therefore be interpreted with caution. An article specifically examining the effect of the change in classification for cancer trends in England and Wales was published in Health Statistics Quarterly 23*. More information about these changes for England and Wales can be found on the National Statistics website at www.statistics.gov.uk/icd10mortality Information on the introduction of ICD-10 for coding mortality data in Scotland was published in the Registrar General’s annual report for 2000 which can be found at http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/library/annrep/00annrep/00ap2.html Information on the introduction of ICD-10 for coding mortality data in Northern Ireland was published in the Registrar General’s annual report for 2002 and can be found at http://www.nisra.gov.uk/statistics/financeandpersonnel/DMB/2002RG_Report/appendix7.pdf 3 Figures are for registrations of death in each calendar year for Scotland and Northern Ireland and for occurrences of death in each calendar year for England and Wales. * Brock A, Griffiths C, Rooney C (2004) The effect of the introduction of ICD-10 on cancer mortality trends in England and Wales. Health Statistics Quarterly 23, 7-17.