§ Mr. Jim CunninghamTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what was the incidence of (a) serious kidney disease, (b) prostate cancer and (c) cervical cancer (i) in the last 12 months for which figures are available and (ii) five years ago. [108524]
§ Yvette CooperThe category of "serious kidney disease" is not used in the statistics collected. One definition would be those with end stage renal failure, who are receiving renal replacement therapy (dialysis and transplant). The last published national survey of renal units showed the number of such patients treated in England and Wales in 1995 was 473 per million population. The 1999 report of the United Kingdom Renal Registry shows that the most comparable figure for 1998 was 528 per million population. The latest available incidence figures (1996) for prostate and cervical cancer together with data for 1991 for comparison are shown in the table.
England and Wales 1991 11996 Incidence of prostrate cancer (ICD9 185) Number of newly diagnosed cases 14,256 18,900 Rates per 100,000 population2 49.7 63.5 Incidence of cervical cancer (ICD 9 180) Number of newly diagnosed cases 3,592 2,600 Rate per 100,000 population2 12.8 8.9 1 Provisional data Directly age standardised to the European standard population Source:
Office for National Statistics (1999), Report: Registrations of cancer diagnosed in 1993–96, England and Wales, Health Statistics Quarterly 4; 59–70