Hansard

Cancer

Volume 506: debated on Tuesday 23 February 2010

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Mr. Dismore

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office (1) what estimate she has made of the number of people per 1,000 expected to develop cancer of the (a) mouth, (b) oesophagus and (c) larynx; and in how many such cases the consumption of alcohol is expected to be a direct causal factor; (316298)

(2) what estimate she has made of the number of people per 1,000 expected to develop (a) breast cancer and (b) heart disease; and in how many such cases the consumption of alcohol is expected to be a direct causal factor.

Gillian Merron

I have been asked to reply.

No estimate has been made of the number of cases of stroke, dementia, depression, heart disease or cancer of the mouth, oesophagus, larynx or breast per 1,000 of the population.