The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated October 2008:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking how many women under the age of 25 years were diagnosed with cervical cancer in each of the last five years for which figures are available [227232].
The latest available figures for newly diagnosed cases (incidence) of cancer are for the year 2005. Numbers of cases of cervical cancer for the years 2001 to 2005 for England are given in Table 1 below.
Number 2001 42 2002 42 2003 63 2004 48 2005 43 1Cervical cancer is defined as code C53 in the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10). Source: Office for National Statistics.