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Colorectal Cancer

Volume 490: debated on Monday 23 March 2009

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 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 information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.

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.

Table 1. Registrations of newly diagnosed cases of bowel cancer1, persons: Tamworth local authority, Staffordshire county, and England, 1997 to 2006

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