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Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated January 2009:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking what estimate the Office for National Statistics has made of the number of patients diagnosed with cancer in each Westminster constituency in Scotland in (a) 2003, (b) 2004, (c) 2005, (d) 2006 and (e) 2007, broken down by cancer type. [241486]
The latest available figures for newly diagnosed cases of cancer (incidence) are for the year 2005 for Scotland. Table 1 shows the number of patients diagnosed with the most common cancers (colorectal, lung, breast and prostate) in each Westminster constituency in Scotland in (a) 2003, (b) 2004, and (c) 2005. Further statistics on cancer in Scotland are available at the following website:
www.isdscotland.org/cancer.
Colorectal Lung Breast Prostate Constituency of residence 2003 2004 2005 2003 2004 2005 2003 2004 2005 2003 2004 2005 Aberdeen North 60 56 63 97 92 83 63 62 55 39 40 47 Aberdeen South 63 61 54 65 65 67 66 58 82 43 46 26 Airdrie and Shotts 41 51 46 69 74 82 65 45 59 20 28 22 Angus 61 84 52 72 95 70 46 52 104 32 31 26 Argyll and Bute 73 70 79 82 81 73 123 72 61 50 40 45 Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock 81 83 76 85 86 83 66 96 58 65 86 59 Banff and Buchan 51 63 54 52 71 66 66 68 65 33 48 38 Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk 81 82 80 73 73 64 55 53 144 65 63 57 Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross 34 52 39 50 56 42 57 63 34 50 42 50 Central Ayrshire 62 58 65 88 93 69 73 64 68 56 59 36 Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill 49 55 43 99 85 84 58 57 69 24 21 26 Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East 50 51 58 91 79 79 86 42 51 23 47 28 Dumfries and Galloway 71 94 80 95 88 109 81 90 110 55 48 61 Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale 63 65 57 79 74 84 85 63 79 39 55 42 Dundee East 64 77 69 89 89 82 80 74 75 41 35 30 Dundee West 51 61 57 88 89 88 55 61 58 30 38 34 Dunfermline and West Fife 56 58 40 43 68 65 63 76 61 47 39 53 East Dunbartonshire 72 53 60 48 58 55' 76 92 63 53 65 51 East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow 65 58 55 67 98 90 66 106 54 22 59 45 East Lothian 67 82 72 69 90 92 75 52 74 62 52 62 East Renfrewshire 47 53 56 65 69 76 73 67 89 52 47 35 Edinburgh East 52 65 54 73 87 77 63 53 66 46 24 41 Edinburgh North and Leith 51 58 46 61 66 62 56 58 88 47 35 46 Edinburgh South 45 55 52 48 60 52 64 73 45 36 49 62 Edinburgh South West 53 57 55 69 80 80 83 69 48 44 39 51 Edinburgh West 66 66 82 54 94 72 74 57 101 69 69 81 Falkirk 60 60 51 93 83 101 62 126 46 79 64 65 Glasgow Central 59 45 35 100 103 91 37 44 40 20 24 21 Glasgow East 64 65 62 131 143 125 62 67 71 31 39 44 Glasgow North 33 34 37 75 73 59 36 42 42 29 20 21 Glasgow North East 56 64 63 130 154 133 54 61 66 41 41 29 Glasgow North West 60 52 60 88 104 100 74 66 74 31 52 35 Glasgow South 57 47 48 97 80 102 60 78 57 36 34 35 Glasgow South West 48 59 65 118 104 117 60 54 52 36 31 33 Glenrothes 55 64 52 94 91 75 84 51 63 33 36 43 Gordon 84 66 65 47 57 55 66 56 60 38 42 40 Inverclyde 67 57 49 109 98 90 64 106 46 43 58 35 Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey 75 62 61 64 67 65 58 78 84 59 55 68 Kilmarnock and Loudoun 78 57 64 98 68 91 74 60 60 46 49 45 Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath 64 65 63 96 93 108 110 46 59 50 49 52 Lanark and Hamilton East 71 64 57 78 81 75 85 91 65 39 49 46 Linlithgow and East Falkirk 70 62 68 98 92 85 72 117 87 83 73 76 Livingston 40 48 65 83 94 80 64 94 73 50 66 66 Midlothian 54 39 53 73 67 90 52 51 121 40 47 34 Moray 72 58 62 56 80 68 47 57 88 44 49 44 Motherwell and Wishaw 48 65 65 95 107 82 45 50 111 20 32 19 Na h-Eileanan an Iar 21 26 38 25 20 28 10 18 29 25 11 18 North Ayrshire and Arran 69 71 81 92 98 99 55 87 95 57 67 46 North East Fife 60 64 67 67 50 63 85 58 54 47 51 29 Ochil and South Perthshire 75 74 74 80 80 86 68 101 69 59 47 68 Orkney and Shetland 31 35 36 33 25 23 44 37 22 27 28 29 Paisley and Renfrewshire North 40 55 61 73 82 89 57 64 75 27 31 26 Paisley and Renfrewshire South 58 60 51 77 82 87 73 65 67 22 20 24 Perth and North Perthshire 84 70 64 65 78 63 77 101 69 50 68 42 Ross, Skye and Lochaber 28 46 54 39 43 48 60 38 54 45 36 32 Rutherglen and Hamilton West 57 55 73 93 99 105 58 90 65 38 56 38 Stirling 54 58 67 62 68 66 59 63 93 54 64 43 West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine 68 46 51 41 46 41 95 60 56 33 31 35 West Dunbartonshire 58 60 46 113 90 93 85 54 54 36 37 40 1 Colorectal cancer is coded to C18-C20, lung cancer is coded to C33-C34, breast cancer is coded to C50, prostate cancer is coded to C61 in the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10). 2 Based on boundaries as of 2007. Source: Scottish Cancer Registry