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Letter from Stephen Penneck:
As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking what the (a) age-standardised incidence rate for prostate cancer and (b) number of diagnoses of prostate cancer was in (i) each strategic health authority area, (ii) each primary care trust area and (iii) each constituency in each year since 1997. [317709]
The latest available figures for newly diagnosed cases of prostate 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.
Cancer incidence rates for strategic health authorities can only be calculated from 2002 onwards and for primary care organisations and parliamentary constituencies from 2001 onwards due to the availability of mid-year population estimates for those areas.
The number of cases in parliamentary constituencies has not been given for individual years in line with policy on protecting confidentiality within patients' data.
The tables attached provide the age-standardised incidence rate per 100,000 population, for prostate cancer, for (i) strategic health authorities in England, for the years 2002 to 2007 (Table 1), (ii) primary care organisations in England for the years 2001 to 2007 (Table 2), and (iii) parliamentary constituencies in England for the years 2001 to 2007 combined (Table 3), the number of diagnoses (incidence) for prostate cancer for (i) strategic health authorities in England and (ii) primary care organisations in England, for the years 1997-2007 (Tables 4 and 5), and (iii) parliamentary constituencies in England for the years 1997-02 and 2003-07 combined (Table 6).
A copy of Tables 2, 3, 5 and 6 has been placed in the House of Commons Library.
Cases per 100,000 (males) 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 North East 90 97 86 93 86 86 North West 88 90 108 101 104 96 Yorkshire and the Humber 89 89 101 96 101 97 East Midlands 84 82 94 99 101 99 West Midlands 102 102 109 104 105 97 East of England 99 95 99 101 100 99 London 96 96 98 93 95 94 South East Coast 88 88 92 89 93 91 South Central 110 107 116 99 106 99 South West 110 112 116 104 110 108 1 Age-standardised incidence 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 Prostate cancer is coded as C61 in the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10). 3 Based on boundaries as of 2009. 4 Based on newly diagnosed cases registered in each calendar year.
Males 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 North East 897 1,066 1,234 1,249 1,415 1,404 1,499 1,365 1,471 1,385 1,394 North West 2,555 2,627 2,846 3,107 3,657 3,533 3,631 4,400 4,177 4,329 4,058 Yorkshire and the Humber 1,860 1,825 1,940 2,394 2,664 2,647 2,697 3,059 2,944 3,129 3,064 East Midlands 1,465 1,531 1,751 1,971 2,152 2,185 2,147 2,528 2,672 2,809 2,793 West Midlands 2,091 2,252 2,415 2,741 3,096 3,254 3,299 3,547 3,427 3,516 3,305 East of England 2,275 2,276 2,630 2,974 3,257 3,367 3,309 3,459 3,579 3,623 3,611 London 2,614 2,673 2,766 2,832 3,133 3,172 3,160 3,252 3,089 3,133 3,117 South East Coast 2,098 2,008 2,254 2,331 2,501 2,368 2,380 2,498 2,408 2,546 2,555 South Central 1,488 1,648 1,831 2,071 2,398 2,401 2,373 2,619 2,262 2,463 2,348 South West 2,641 2,537 2,698 2,886 3,638 3,813 3,899 4,095 3,752 4,022 3,956 1 Prostate cancer is coded as C61 in the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10). 2 Based on boundaries as of 2009. 3 Based on newly diagnosed cases registered in each calendar year.