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Letter from Jil Matheson, dated November 2009:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking how many people in (a) Meriden constituency, (b) Solihull metropolitan borough, (c) the West Midlands and (d) England and Wales have been diagnosed with breast cancer in each year since 1997. [303355]
The latest available figures for newly diagnosed cases of breast cancer (incidence) are for the year 2007. Please note that these numbers may not be the same as the number of people diagnosed with cancer, because one person may be diagnosed with more than one cancer.
Table 1 provides the numbers of newly diagnosed cases of breast cancer for each year from 1997 to 2007 for (a) Meriden parliamentary constituency, (b) Solihull metropolitan district, (c) West Midlands government office region and (d) England and Wales.
1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 Meriden 57 76 90 74 79 90 87 84 93 77 72 Solihull 129 178 199 155 166 192 173 198 184 178 165 West Midlands 3,541 3,657 3,697 3,776 3,790 3,871 4,035 4,050 4,279 4,112 4,229 England and Wales 35,745 36,088 38,021 37,174 37,887 37,910 40,178 40,331 41,091 40,746 40,757 1 Breast cancer is coded as C50 in the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10). 2 Around 99 per cent. of breast cancer cases are in women. 3 Based on boundaries as of 2009. 4 Figures for Wales provided by the Welsh Cancer Intelligence Surveillance Unit. 5 Newly diagnosed cases registered in each calendar year.