The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Colin Mowl, dated 26 February 2008:
The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking how many diagnoses of breast cancer there were in Lancashire in each of the last five years. I am replying in her absence. [189167]
The most recent available figures for newly diagnosed cases of breast cancer registered in England are for the year 2005. Figures for female patients diagnosed with breast cancer in Lancashire county for the years 2001 to 2005 are in the table below.
Number 2001 842 2002 812 2003 829 2004 902 2005 893 1 Breast cancer is coded to C50 in the International Classification of Diseases Tenth Revision (ICD-10). Source: Office for National Statistics