(2) how many patients in (a) Barnsley and (b) Doncaster have been diagnosed with lung cancer in each of the last 10 years.
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Letter from Stephen Penneck, dated 28 January 2010:
As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your recent questions asking:
1) How many patients in (a) Barnsley and (b) Doncaster have been diagnosed with melanoma in each of the last 10 years. [314634]
2) How many patients in (a) Barnsley and (b) Doncaster have been diagnosed with lung cancer in each of the last 10 years. [314635]
The latest available figures for newly diagnosed cases of melanoma and lung 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.
The tables attached provide the number of newly diagnosed cases of (1) melanoma (Table 1), (2) lung cancer (Table 2) in (a) Barnsley and (b) Doncaster metropolitan districts, from 1997 to 2007.
Persons 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 Barnsley 15 14 20 8 10 21 8 16 22 33 40 Doncaster 17 20 14 36 25 44 25 42 41 47 46 1 Melanoma skin cancer is coded as C43 in the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10). 2 Based on boundaries as of 2009. 3 Newly diagnosed cases registered in each calendar year.
Persons 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 Barnsley 196 208 171 205 184 170 184 179 190 193 224 Doncaster 232 241 236 263 234 270 257 244 253 275 258 1 Lung cancer is coded as C34 in the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10). 2 Based on boundaries as of 2009. 3 Newly diagnosed cases registered in each calendar year.