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Letter from Karen Dunnell dated June 2009:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking how many cases of cancer have been diagnosed in (a) Peterborough constituency and (b) England in each year since 2000 (281669).
The latest available figures for newly diagnosed cases of cancer (incidence) are for the year 2006. Numbers of newly diagnosed cases of cancer for the years 2000 to 2006 for (a) Peterborough constituency and (b) England are in Table 1 below.
Peterborough England 2000 394 229,339 2001 398 232,575 2002 380 230,208 2003 424 234,434 2004 394 239,273 2005 367 241,974 2006 382 242,184 1 All cancers, coded to C00-C97 in the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10), excluding non-melanoma skin cancer (C44). 2 Based on boundaries as of 2007. Source: Office for national Statistics