To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many men were diagnosed with prostate cancer in (a) Lancashire and (b) England in each of the last three years. (216757)

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.

Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 7 July 2008:

As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking how many people were diagnosed with prostate cancer in (a) Lancashire and (b) England in each of the last three years [216757]

The latest available figures for newly diagnosed cases (incidence) of prostate cancer are for the year 2005. Figures requested are given in the table below.

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many men were given chemotherapy treatment for prostate cancer in (a) Lancashire and (b) England in each of the last three years. (216754)

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.

Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 7 July 2008:

As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking how many men were given chemotherapy treatment for prostate cancer in (a) Lancashire and (b) England in each of the last three years [216754]

The latest year for which data are available is 2005. The table below shows, for 2003-2005, the number of newly diagnosed cases of prostate cancer receiving chemotherapy treatment. The national cancer registration system has chemotherapy treatment recorded for 4.3 per cent of prostate patients in Lancashire county compared to 2.9 per cent in England for the period 2003-05. In 45 per cent of prostate cancer cases in the national cancer registry database for 2003-05, either no treatment information was recorded or patients were recorded as having had no treatment.