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Duchy of Lancaster

Cervical Cancer

Mr. Kemp: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many women under the age of 25 years were diagnosed with cervical cancer in each of the last five years for which figures are available. [227232]

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 October 2008:

As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking how many women under the age of 25 years were diagnosed with cervical cancer in each of the last five years for which figures are available [227232].

The latest available figures for newly diagnosed cases (incidence) of cancer are for the year 2005. Numbers of cases of cervical cancer for the years 2001 to 2005 for England are given in Table 1 below.

Table 1: Registrations of newly diagnosed cases of cervical cancer( 1) under the age of 25 years, England, 2001-05
	Number
2001	42
2002	42
2003	63
2004	48
2005	43
(1)Cervical cancer is defined as code C53 in the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10). Source: Office for National Statistics.

Colorectal Cancer

Mrs. Hodgson: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many (a) men and (b) women were diagnosed with bowel cancer in each calendar year since 1997, broken down (i) by Government region and (ii) by those aged (A) under 30, (B) 30 to 40, (C) 41 to 50 and (D) 51 to 60 years. [225704]

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 October 2008:

As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking how many (a) men and (b) women were diagnosed with bowel cancer in each calendar year since 1997, broken down (i) by Government region and (ii) by those aged (A) under 30, (B) 30 to 40, (C) 41 to 50 and (D) 51 to 60 years. [225704]

The latest available figures for newly diagnosed cases of cancer (incidence) are for the year 2005. Numbers of cases of bowel cancer for men and women in each calendar year since 1997, broken down (i) by Government office region and (ii) by age are given in Table 1 and Table 2 below. Ages are presented to be consistent with the standard age groups published by the Office for National Statistics (0-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59).

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Table 1 : Males: Registrations of newly diagnosed cases of bowel cancer( 1) by age in each Government office region, 1997 to 2005
Government office region	Age	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
North East	Under 30	2	0	4	3	1	1	0	0	0
	30-39	8	10	10	6	8	8	7	5	9
	40-49	38	37	47	29	35	36	24	38	35
	50-59	127	139	127	123	135	127	140	112	136
North West	Under 30	5	6	7	3	4	5	9	8	5
	30-39	21	16	22	9	24	11	25	24	26
	40-49	81	73	87	77	73	77	83	91	97
	50-59	276	296	301	318	309	288	305	322	304
Yorkshire and the Humber	Under 30	3	8	2	3	I	0	5	5	4
	30-39	11	10	18	16	10	11	12	10	17
	40-49	64	62	68	59	47	62	61	61	67
	50-59	198	187	225	195	214	223	222	236	236
East Midlands	Under 30	2	1	2	1	3	0	4	1	7
	30-39	18	10	16	13	9	12	13	10	16
	40-49	35	47	48	46	57	39	35	61	57
	50-59	151	171	184	183	180	171	149	162	194
West Midlands	Under 30	4	8	3	2	3	4	7	4	5
	30-39	15	10	19	19	20	17	16	33	15
	40-49	75	52	53	54	52	77	66	60	51
	50-59	213	210	218	222	224	247	249	229	249
East of England	Under 30	3	4	2	3	0	0	3	6	6
	30-39	10	6	14	19	12	11	13	11	25
	40-49	57	55	50	44	37	45	63	54	73
	50-59	192	192	201	201	189	195	177	205	212
London	Under 30	7	6	6	6	8	7	8	10	9
	30-39	31	20	20	37	25	21	24	31	20
	40-49	75	76	66	52	60	64	73	60	79
	50-59	182	200	191	202	216	193	201	190	206
South East	Under 30	4	4	7	3	9	5	9	8	15
	30-39	21	18	21	23	18	18	22	22	17
	40-49	100	93	82	83	86	73	71	74	96
	50-59	275	305	273	312	291	308	282	280	318
South West	Under 30	3	2	3	3	3	11	5	6	6
	30-39	13	14	21	9	12	14	9	16	7
	40-49	61	48	48	48	50	66	57	61	45
	50-59	183	170	217	198	188	204	204	235	213
(1) Bowel cancer is defined as codes C18-C20 in the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) Source: Office for National Statistics.

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