§ Tim LoughtonTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average survival rate was for cancer of the colon in each year since 1997. [24313]
§ Ruth KellyI have been asked to reply.
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician. I have asked him to reply.
Letter from John Kidgell to Tim Loughton, dated 8 January 2002:
The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your recent question concerning what is the survival rate for cancer of the colon. I am replying in his absence. (24313)The latest available five year relative survival rates from cancer of the colon in England, for cases (aged 15–99) diagnosed in the period 1992–1994 and followed up to the end of 1999, are 42.6% in men and 42.1% in women (Source: Office for National Statistics `One and five year relative survival (%) [by sex and age group] for patients diagnosed during 1991–93 and 1992–94, major cancer sites, England').