§ Mr. McFallTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the number of child cancer, including leukaemia, patients recorded in each of the paediatric hospitals in the United Kingdom each year over the past 10 years.
§ Mr. FreemanThe exact information requested is not available.
The data shown are collected from cases reported to local cancer registries (based at regional health authority level), and are not subdivided into those recorded from paediatric hospitals. The data cover the years 1980 to 1984, later data for the United Kingdom as a whole not yet being available.
Number of cases of (a) all malignant neoplasms1 and (b) leukaemia2, ages 0 to 14 years United Kingdom, 1980 to 1984 Year (a) All malignant neoplasms (b) Leukaemia Males Females Males Females 1984 690 563 224 190 1983 699 549 246 198 1982 642 518 210 182 1981 662 560 217 184 1980 688 534 213 169 1 Assigned to the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) 9th revision codes 140 to 208. 2 Assigned to the 9th revision ICD codes 204 to 208.