§ Mr. Ieuan Wyn JonesTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will publish for each standard region of the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom as a whole for the latest available year the number of woman diagnosed as suffering from breast cancer, indicating the figure as a percentage of the total female population in each case. [41960]
§ Mr. SackvilleThe available information is shown in the table.
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Breast Cancer (ICD91174) 1990 England2 (RHAs as at 1990) Number of cases diagnosed Percentage of total female population Northern 1,564 0.10 Yorkshire 1,970 0.11 Trent 2,482 0.1 East Anglia 1,249 0.12 North West Thames 1,997 0.11 North East Thames 2,182 0.11 South East Thames 2,102 0.11 South West Thames 1,773 0.11 Wessex 1,864 0.12 Oxford 1,479 0.12 South Western 1,947 0.12 West Midlands 3,026 0.11 Mersey 1,332 0.11 North Western 2,070 0.10 England 27,037 0.11 Wales2 1,775 0.12 England and Wales 28,812 0.11 Scotland (Health Boards) Argyll and Clyde 230 0.10 Ayrshire and Arran 214 0.11 Borders 89 0.17 Fife 192 0.11 Dumfries and Galloway 91 0.12 Forth Valley 118 0.08 Grampian 310 0.12 Greater Glasgow 567 0.12 Highland 127 0.12 Lanarkshire 287 0.1 Lothian 488 0.13 Orkney 10 0.10 Shetland 13 0.12
Breast Cancer (ICD91174) 1990 England2 (RHAs as at 1990) Number of cases diagnosed Percentage of total female population Tayside 222 0.11 Western Isles 21 0.14 Scotland 2,979 0.11 Great Britain 31,791 0.11 Northern Ireland 724 0.09 United Kingdom 32,515 0.11 1 International Classification of Diseases—9th Revision. 2 Provisional.