Breast Cancer (Hansard, 20 February 1995)

HC Deb 20 February 1995 vol 255 c26W 26W

§ Mrs. Golding
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the mortality rate from breast cancer in(a) England and (b) other OECD countries for which figures are available.

§ Mr. Sackville
In 1993 the provisional mortality rate for malignant neoplasm of the female breast—ICD¹ 184—in England was 49.3 per 100,000 women.
The latest available data for other Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development countries can be found in the "United Nations Demographic Yearbook", copies of which are available in the Library. ¹International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision.