The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.[Official Report, 14 January 2008, Vol. 470, c. 5MC.]
Letter from Colin Mowl, dated 11 December 2007:
The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking what the incidence of cancer was in each (a) constituency, (b) primary care trust area, (c) hospitals trust area, (d) region and (e) social demographic group in the most recent period for which figures are available. I am replying in her absence. (171907)
It is not possible to calculate incidence rates of cancer by (a) constituency and (c) hospitals trust area because the relevant populations are not available.
Incidence rates of all cancers excluding non-melanoma skin cancer in England by (b) primary care trust area and (d) government office region for 2004, the latest year for which figures are available, are given in Tables 1 and 2 below. Figures for government office regions are also available on the National Statistics website at
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/StatBase/Productasp?vlnk=8843&Pos=&ColRank=1&Rank=272
Incidence rates of all cancers excluding non-melanoma skin cancer in England and Wales by (e) social demographic group are not available. However, the latest incidence rates for the three main cancers (breast, lung and prostate), which make up around 40 per cent of all cancers, by (e) social demographic group are given in Table 3 below.
Males Females Primary care trust England 480 454 South Gloucestershire 633 534 Havering 437 325 Kingston 422 344 Bromley 344 310 Greenwich Teaching 407 342 Barnet 348 302 North East Lincolnshire 511 437 Hillingdon 371 296 Enfield 374 303 Barking and Dagenham 412 274 City and Hackney Teaching 412 286 Tower Hamlets 388 334 Newham 392 332 Haringey Teaching 449 325 Blackburn with Darwen 547 425 Herefordshire 448 430 Milton Keynes 642 495 Newcastle 604 465 North Tyneside 589 464 Hartlepool 609 402 North Tees 556 490 North Lincolnshire 493 416 Nottingham City 608 509 Bassetlaw 460 531 Plymouth Teaching 645 492 Salford 529 441 Stockport 574 438 Portsmouth City Teaching 578 526 Bath and North East Somerset 633 525 Luton 401 335 Hammersmith and Fulham 402 272 Rotherham 614 520 Ashton, Leigh and Wigan 565 426 Blackpool 641 517 Bolton 532 438 Ealing 343 289 Hounslow 352 281 Warrington 538 403 Knowsley 712 539 Oldham 566 422 Calderdale 482 445 Darlington 529 415 Barnsley 553 439 Bury 534 420 Swindon 526 464 Brent Teaching 346 287 Harrow 317 289 Camden 412 378 Islington 454 318 Croydon 399 327 Gateshead 591 474 South Tyneside 567 501 Sunderland Teaching 564 495 Middlesbrough 620 461 Southampton City 598 477 Medway 431 366 Kensington and Chelsea 337 244 Westminster 375 284 Lambeth 445 363 Southwark 423 347 Lewisham 497 352 Wandsworth 454 386 Tameside and Glossop 548 436 Brighton and Hove City 374 307 South Birmingham 543 447 Shropshire County 560 413 Walsall Teaching 544 470 Richmond and Twickenham 399 331 Sutton and Merton 439 323 North Somerset 622 511 Coventry Teaching 526 438 Telford and Wrekin 517 385 Wolverhampton City 461 414 Heart of Birmingham Teaching 493 345 Leeds 562 453 Kirklees 506 394 Wakefield District 543 476 Sheffield 547 457 Doncaster 627 471 Derbyshire County 544 455 Derby City 566 454 Nottinghamshire County 565 475 Lincolnshire 559 449 Redbridge 323 282 Waltham Forest 323 262 County Durham 535 450 Cumbria 484 449 North Lancashire 590 470 Central Lancashire 574 426 East Lancashire 537 456 Sefton 632 458 Wirral 498 390 Liverpool 678 539 Halton and St. Helens 589 456 Western Cheshire 562 481 Central and Eastern Cheshire 544 436 Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale 588 413 Trafford 612 471 Manchester 598 475 North Yorkshire and York 550 426 East Riding of Yorkshire 536 440 Hull 576 457 Bradford and Airedale 515 427 South East Essex 401 351 Bedfordshire 379 363 East and North Hertfordshire 416 321 West Hertfordshire 294 259 Surrey 356 332 West Sussex 390 326 East Sussex Downs and Weald 379 328 Hastings and Rother 299 303 West Kent 385 336 Leicestershire County and Rutland 511 442 Leicester City 469 411 Northamptonshire 535 454 Dudley 458 411 Sandwell 465 367 Birmingham East and North 571 410 North Staffordshire 462 370 Stoke on Trent 505 461 South Staffordshire 520 422 Worcestershire 543 456 Warwickshire 528 432 Peterborough 532 421 Cambridgeshire 534 447 Norfolk 516 446 Great Yarmouth and Waveney 500 412 Suffolk 553 418 West Essex 385 281 North East Essex 377 325 Mid Essex 302 261 South West Essex 394 296 Eastern and Coastal Kent 419 335 Hampshire 496 399 Buckinghamshire 573 481 Oxfordshire 591 480 Berkshire West 577 453 Berkshire East 576 458 Gloucestershire 532 451 Bristol 612 484 Wiltshire 630 493 Somerset 569 512 Dorset 673 490 Bournemouth and Poole 682 496 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 569 490 Devon 645 490 Redcar and Cleveland 618 485 Isle of Wight National Health Service 531 475 Care Trust Northumberland 560 456 Bexley 372 347 Torbay 562 507 Solihull 578 474 1 Directly age standardised to the European Standard Population. 2 All cancers, excluding non-melanoma skin cancer, are classified according to the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10): C00-C97 excluding C44. 3 Boundaries as at 1 October 2006. Source: Office for National Statistics.
Males Females England 480 454 North East 533 506 North West 537 486 Yorkshire and the Humber 502 474 East Midlands 499 492 West Midlands 489 454 East 456 426 London 342 333 South East 469 454 South West 578 534 1 Directly age standardised to the European Standard Population. 2 All cancers, excluding non-melanoma skin cancer, are classified according to the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10): C00-C97 excluding C44. Source: Office for National Statistics (2004) ‘Cancer Statistics: Registrations Series MB1’
Breast Prostate Lung Deprivation quintile Female Male Female Male Q1 Least deprived 157 100 56 28 Q2 152 96 70 34 Q3 148 91 83 42 Q4 141 85 99 53 Q5 Most deprived 132 82 125 67 1 Directly age standardised to the European Standard Population. 2 Cancers are classified according to the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10): prostate C61, Breast C50, Lung C33-34. Source: Unpublished data from Rowan S (2007) ‘Trends in cancer incidence by deprivation, England and Wales, 1990-2002’ in Health Statistics Quarterly 36: 24-41.