§ Ms LynneTo asks the Secretary of State for Health what is the number of deaths per year from prostate cancer for males(a) between the ages of 55 and 65 years and (b) of 65 years and over.
§ Mr. SackvilleThe number of deaths from a malignant neoplasm of the prostate (International Classification of Diseases, ninth revision, code 185) for 1991, and for earlier years, can be found in the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys publication "Mortality statistics: cause' Series DH2", copies of which are available in the Library. The number of deaths in 1992 for males aged:(a) 55 to 64 (inclusive) is 600; and (b) 65 years and over is 8,069. These figures are for England and Wales.