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Letter from Jil Matheson, dated December 2009:
As National Statistician, I have been asked for to reply to your recent question asking what the (a) diagnosis and (b) mortality rate for (i) chronic lung disease, (ii) coronary heart disease and (iii) cancer was in Stroud constituency in each of the last 10 years. (309130)
Figures on newly diagnosed cases (incidence) of chronic lung disease and coronary heart disease are not readily available. Mortality and incidence rates for parliamentary constituencies which do not share boundaries exactly with a local authority can be calculated only from 2001 onwards. The tables below provide (a) the age standardised cancer incidence rate and (b) age standardised mortality rates for (i) chronic lung disease, (ii) coronary heart disease and (iii) cancer in Stroud parliamentary constituency for the years 2001 to 2007 (the latest available).
Parliamentary constituency population estimates on which these rates are based are experimental statistics, that is, statistics which are in a testing or consultation phase, and therefore should be treated with caution.
Cases per 100,000 2001 398 2002 317 2003 323 2004 375 2005 343 2006 382 2007 418 1 Age-standardised cancer registration rates per 100,000 population, standardised to the European Standard Population. Age-standardised rates are used to allow comparison between populations which may contain different proportions of people of different ages. 2 Cancer incidence defined using International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) codes C00-C97 excluding code C44: non-melanoma skin cancer. 3 Based on boundaries and postcode allocation, as of 2009. 4 Newly diagnosed cases registered in each calendar year. 5 Parliamentary constituency population estimates used to calculate the incidence rates are experimental statistics.
Deaths per 100,000 Chronic lung disease Chronic heart disease Cancer 2001 23 122 178 2002 28 127 162 2003 29 103 175 2004 21 100 156 2005 23 82 161 2006 26 89 158 2007 22 80 156 1 Age-standardised mortality rates per 100,000 population, standardised to the European Standard Population. Age-standardised rates are used to allow comparison between populations which may contain different proportions of people of different ages. 2 Cause of death was defined using International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) codes J40-J47for chronic lung disease, 120-125 for coronary heart disease and C00-C97 for cancer. 3 Based on boundaries and postcode allocation, as of 2009. 4 Parliamentary constituency population estimates used to calculate the incidence rates are experimental statistics.