Colorectal Cancer Mr. Jenkins To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many residents of (a) Tamworth, (b) Staffordshire and (c) England were diagnosed with bowel cancer in each of the last 10 years. Kevin Brennan The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply. Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated March 2009: As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking how many residents of (a) Tamworth, (b) Staffordshire and (c) England were diagnosed with bowel cancer in each of the last 10 years. [264528] The latest available figures for newly diagnosed cases of cancer (incidence) are for the year 2006. Numbers of newly diagnosed cases of bowel cancer for each year from 1997 to 2006 for (a) Tamworth, (b) Staffordshire and (c) England are in Table 1. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |1997 |1998 |1999 |2000 |2001 |2002 |2003 |2004 |2005 |2006 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Tamworth |25 |39 |30 |31 |35 |25 |26 |30 |45 |35 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Staffordshire |450 |537 |501 |497 |472 |479 |531 |518 |544 |510 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |England |28,112|28,750|29,058|28,951|28,216|28,218|28,496|29,430|29,945|30,046| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |1 Bowel cancer is coded to C18-C20 in the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10).Source:Office for National Statistics| | | | | | | | | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------