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Prostate Cancer

Mr. Crausby: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many cases of prostate cancer were diagnosed in each strategic health authority region in each of the last 11 years; and how many deaths from prostate cancer there were in each year. [212813]

Mr. Watson: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.

Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 25 June 2008:

As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking how many cases of prostate cancer were diagnosed, and how many deaths from prostate cancer there were, in each strategic health authority region in each of the last 11 years. (212813)

The most recent available figures for cancer incidence are for 2005. Figures requested are given in Table 1 below. The most recent available figures for cancer deaths are for 2006. Figures requested are given in Table 2 below.

Table 1: Registrations of newly diagnosed cases of prostate cancer( 1) , males, by Strategic health authority, 1995 to 2005
SHA	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
England	19,473	19,866	19,878	20,375	22,203	24,256	27,380	27,672	27,777	29,406	28,886
North East	771	861	887	1,063	1,229	1,243	1,407	1,389	1,475	1,321	1,403
Northwest	2,733	2,839	2,554	2,626	2,843	3,096	3,651	3,525	3,637	4,468	4,293
Yorkshire and the Humber	1,730	1,784	1,857	1,818	1,923	2,372	2,631	2,598	2,639	2,909	2,729
East Midlands	1,495	1,601	1,465	1,531	1,747	1,939	2,115	2,136	2,090	2,415	2,619
West Midlands	2,035	2,144	2,085	2,247	2,411	2,723	3,076	3,235	3,249	3,377	3,350
East of England	2,283	2,396	2,247	2,266	2,609	2,938	3,192	3,270	3,194	3,164	3,453
London	2,449	2,400	2,593	2,661	2,742	2,797	3,074	3,115	3,062	3,012	2,875
South East Coast	2,078	1,889	2,081	1,997	2,225	2,289	2,441	2,302	2,270	2,268	2,317
South Central	1,543	1,549	1,480	1,632	1,808	2,038	2,349	2,361	2,334	2,484	2,169
South West	2,356	2,403	2,629	2,534	2,666	2,821	3,444	3,741	3,827	3,988	3,678
(1) Prostate cancer is coded to C61 in the International Classification of Diseases 10th Revision (ICD-10) Source: Office for National Statistics

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Table 2: Number of deaths where prostate cancer was the underlying cause of death, males, by strategic health authority( 1) ,1996 to 2006( 2)
SHA	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
England	8,256	7,982	8,074	8,015	7,761	8,305	8,471	8,570	8,531	8,492	8,506
North East	356	368	386	374	352	383	413	401	457	392	466
North West	1,045	1,031	1,047	1,041	1,064	1,127	1,077	1,053	1,062	1,109	1,016
Yorkshire and the Humber	801	810	755	789	770	756	784	890	856	795	858
East Midlands	702	701	694	678	685	687	732	781	762	755	757
West Midlands	865	851	884	865	835	955	910	948	930	889	960
East of England	948	870	894	905	905	997	1,074	1,000	1,017	1,015	1,040
London	970	878	891	910	798	930	929	890	939	953	850
South East Coast	882	832	851	831	779	830	883	896	766	804	811
South Central	633	602	625	632	567	620	643	638	665	652	681
South West	1,054	1,039	1,047	990	1,006	1,020	1,026	1,073	1,077	1,128	1,067
(1 )Prostate cancer was defined using the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) code 185 for the years 1996 to 2000, and the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) code C61 for the years 2001 to 2006. The introduction of ICD-10 in 2001 had a significant effect on mortality rates for some diseases, causing a discontinuity in mortality trends for these causes of death. However ONS practice is not to adjust the historical numbers of deaths shown in PQ answers. More information on this issue can be found at www.statistics.gov.uk/icd10mortality. For prostate cancer, the introduction of ICD-10 caused an increase of 3.8 per cent. in the number of deaths. An article specifically examining the changes for cancer trends was published in Health Statistics Quarterly 23*. This article also presents comparability ratios (the ratio of the number of deaths coded to a cause in ICD-10 to the number coded to the equivalent cause in ICD-9) for the most common cancer sites. * Brock A, Griffiths C, Rooney C (2004) The effect of the introduction of ICD-10 on cancer mortality trends in England and Wales. Health Statistics Quarterly 23, 7-17. (2) Figures are for deaths registered in each calendar year.

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