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Letter from Stephen Penneck, dated February 2010:
As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking what the incidence of kidney cancer was in each region in each of the last five years. [317509]
The latest available figures for newly diagnosed cases of kidney 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 kidney cancer in each government office region in England, for each year from 2003 to 2007.
Persons 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 North East 349 329 346 354 346 North West 686 655 679 741 758 Yorkshire and The Humber 572 583 607 675 655 East Midlands 380 488 481 524 529 West Midlands 503 496 532 541 590 East 527 518 622 644 593 London 547 550 552 550 590 South East 787 888 872 883 925 South West 620 663 714 780 770 1 Kidney cancer is coded as C64 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.