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Breast Cancer: Males

Volume 497: debated on Wednesday 14 October 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the incidence of male breast cancer is in each primary care trust area. (290207)

I have been asked to reply.

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.

Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated August 2009:

As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking what the incidence of male breast cancer is in each primary care trust area [290207].

The latest available figures for newly diagnosed cases of cancer (incidence) are for the year 2006. There were 275 newly diagnosed cases of breast cancer in males in England in 2006.

Figures are not released for all individual primary care trust areas due to small numbers. Table 1 shows primary care trust areas with three or more newly diagnosed cases of male breast cancer in 2006. There were fewer than three cases in each of the remaining 108 primary care trust areas.

Table 1: Registrations of newly diagnosed cases of male breast cancer1 by strategic health authority and primary care trust2

2006

North East

Newcastle

3

Sunderland Teaching

3

North West

Bury

3

Central and Eastern Cheshire

7

Cumbria Teaching

7

Halton and St. Helens

3

Salford

4

Yorkshire and the Humber

Kirklees

4

Leeds

5

North Yorkshire and York

3

Sheffield

3

Wakefield District

3

East Midlands

Lincolnshire Teaching

4

Northamptonshire Teaching

6

Nottinghamshire County Teaching

3

West Midlands

Birmingham East and North

6

Coventry Teaching

3

Stoke on Trent

3

Warwickshire

3

East of England

Bedfordshire

3

East and North Hertfordshire

3

Norfolk

4

North East Essex

5

South East Essex

6

Suffolk

8

West Hertfordshire

6

London

Barnet

3

Bexley

3

Brent Teaching

4

South East Coast

Brighton and Hove City

3

East Sussex Downs and Weald

3

Medway

3

Surrey

8

West Sussex

3

South Central

Berkshire West

3

Buckinghamshire

3

Hampshire

4

Oxfordshire

4

South West

Bath and North East Somerset

3

Cornwall and Isles of Scilly

5

Devon

8

Gloucestershire

4

Somerset

4

South Gloucestershire

3

1 Breast cancer is coded to C50 in the International Classification of Diseases Tenth Revision (ICD-10).

2 Based on boundaries as of 2008. Due to small numbers only primary care trusts with three or more newly diagnosed cases are included.

Source:

Office for National Statistics.