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Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated March 2009:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking how many residents of (a) Tamworth, (b) Staffordshire and (c) England were diagnosed with bowel cancer in each of the last 10 years. [264528]
The latest available figures for newly diagnosed cases of cancer (incidence) are for the year 2006. Numbers of newly diagnosed cases of bowel cancer for each year from 1997 to 2006 for (a) Tamworth, (b) Staffordshire and (c) England are in Table 1.
1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 Tamworth 25 39 30 31 35 25 26 30 45 35 Staffordshire 450 537 501 497 472 479 531 518 544 510 England 28,112 28,750 29,058 28,951 28,216 28,218 28,496 29,430 29,945 30,046 1 Bowel cancer is coded to C18-C20 in the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10). Source: Office for National Statistics