HC Deb 14 April 1999 vol 329 cc248-50W
Mr. Paul Marsden

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list national survival rates for all cancers for each year from 1992 to date. [80271]

Ms Hewitt

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the Director of the Office for National Statistics. I have asked him to reply.

Letter from Tim Holt to Mr. Paul Marsden, dated 14 April 1999:

As Director of the Office for National Statistics (ONS), I have been asked to reply to your recent parliamentary question on cancer survival rates.

Survival rates in England and Wales were most recently published in ONS Monitor MBI 98/1, for cancers diagnosed in 1981 and 1989, followed up to the end of 1994. The relative survival rates at one-and five-years after diagnosis for all cancers as shown in this publication are given in the table below. This publication, which is available in the House of Commons Library, also presents survival rates for the major types of cancer in men and women.

One and five-year relative survival (%), all cancers diagnosed in 1981 and 1989, England and Wales
One-year survival Five-year survival
1981 1989 1981 1989
Males aged 0–84 37.0 44.3 19.5 24.7
Females aged 0–84 50.3 56.3 31.7 37.5

Mr. Paul Marsden

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) if he will list mortality rates for all types of cancers for each health authority; [80272]

(2) if he will list mortality rates of cancers for all types of cancer, in descending order, for each EU country. [80273]

Ms Hewitt

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the Director of the Office for National Statistics. I have asked him to reply.

Letter from Tim Holt to Mr. Paul Marsden, dated 14 April 1999:

As Director of the Office for National Statistics (ONS), I have been asked to reply to your recent parliamentary questions on mortality rates of cancers.

The information requested is given in the attached tables.

Mortality rates from all cancers1 in persons of all ages Age-standardised2 mortality rates per 100,000 population, 1995, (unless otherwise stated)
Male rate Female rate
Austria 250 153
Belgium (1993) 305 153
Denmark 294 220
Finland 220 130
France 292 129
Germany 263 157
Greece 221 115
Ireland 264 177
Italy (1994) 276 143
Luxembourg 300 147
Netherlands 282 159
Portugal 235 126
Spain 262 118
Sweden 191 142
United Kingdom 257 172
1 Malignant neoplasms, International Classification of Diseases (Ninth Revision) codes 140–208
2 Age-standardised rates are directly age-standardised to the European Standard Population

Mortality rates from all cancers1 in persons of all ages Age-standardised2 mortality rates per 100,000 population in the period 1995–97 (England), 1997 (Wales)
Health Authorities

(boundaries as of April 1996)

Male rate Female rate
England
Bradford 248 173
County Durham 288 187
East Riding 264 179
Gateshead & South Tyneside 318 196
Leeds 254 176
Newcastle & North Tyneside 302 208
North Cumbria 256 169
Northumberland 275 177
Sunderland 296 190
Tees 304 191
Wakefield Health Care 271 179
North Yorkshire 219 155
Calderdale & Kirklees 246 165
Barnsley 266 183
North Derbyshire 252 177
South Derbyshire 242 162
Doncaster 286 185
Leicestershire 217 161
Lincolnshire 235 159
North Nottinghamshire 254 174
Nottingham 258 169
Rotherham 257 191
Sheffield 277 186
South Humber 278 182
Bedfordshire 237 160
Berkshire 228 157
Buckinghamshire 215 161
Cambridge & Huntingdon 213 151
East Norfolk 225 156
Northamptonshire 254 167
North West Anglia 228 164
Oxfordshire 216 161
Suffolk 224 157
Hillingdon 232 174
Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster 223 161
Enfield & Haringey 233 158
Redbridge & Waltham Forest 230 152
Barking & Havering 272 186
Barnet 197 158
Brent & Harrow 215 161
Camden & Islington 244 176

Mortality rates from all cancers1 in persons of all ages Age-standardised2 mortality rates per 100,000 population in the period 1995–97 (England), 1997 (Wales)
Health Authorities

(boundaries as of April 1996)

Male rate Female rate
Ealing, Hammersmith & Hounslow 233 172
East London & The City 279 185
North Essex 226 162
South Essex 250 174
East & North Hertfordshire 222 162
West Hertfordshire 215 164
Bexley & Greenwich 262 171
Bromley 236 269
Croydon 233 173
East Kent 258 165
West Kent 247 169
Kingston & Richmond 233 157
Lambeth, Southwark & Lewisham 272 177
Merton, Sutton & Wandsworth 249 164
East Surrey 211 142
West Surrey 223 160
East Sussex, Brighton & Hove 233 158
West Sussex 223 154
North & Mid Hampshire 225 157
Portsmouth & South East Hampshire 248 168
Southampton & South West Hampshire 237 157
Isle of Wight 222 152
Somerset 230 152
South & West Devon 235 162
Wiltshire 221 164
Avon 229 157
Cornwall & Isles of Scilly 232 170
Dorset 228 154
North & East Devon 216 150
Gloucestershire 224 157
Birmingham 254 172
Coventry 241 172
Dudley 247 168
Herefordshire 227 152
Sandwell 285 182
Shropshire 244 167
Solihull 229 169
North Staffordshire 284 178
South Stafforshire 250 165
Walsall 261 164
Warwickshire 242 170
Wolverhampton 257 174
Worcestershire 230 161
South Lancashire 253 169
Liverpool 336 226
Manchester 321 209
Morecambe Bay 244 163
St. Helens & Knowsley 311 200
Salford & Trafford 282 197
Sefton 273 186
Stockport 241 168
West Pennine 287 180
Bury & Rochdale 262 199
North Cheshire 287 186
South Cheshire 240 160
East Lancashire 261 177
North West Lancashire 250 174
Wigan & Bolton 263 173
Wirral 276 185
Wales
North Wales 252 165
Dyfed Powys 219 165
Morgannwg 257 167
Bro Taf 253 177
Gwent 247 162
1 Malignant neoplasms, International Classification of Diseases (Ninth Revision) codes 140–208
2 Age-standardised rates are directly age-standardised to the European Standard Population

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