HC Deb 17 May 1999 vol 331 cc281-2W
Ms Perham

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will give a breakdown by age range of the incidence of breast cancer in women in England in each of the last five years. [84258]

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 Ms Linda Perham, dated 17 May 1999: As Director of the Office for National Statistics (ONS), 1 have been asked to reply to your recent question on the incidence of breast cancer in women in england in the last five years. The numbers of newly diagnosed cases of breast cancer and incidence rates per 100,000 females in England, 1990–1994 (the last five years for which data are available), are shown in the attached tables. The data for 1990–1992 were published in the ONS Cancer statistics—registrations series MB 1 and most recently updated in the CD-ROM, Cancer 1971–1997. Provisional numbers and rates of new cases of breast cancer diagnosed in 1993–1994 were published in the ONS Monitor Estimates of newly diagnosed cases of cancer, England and Wales, 1993–1997 (MB 1 98/2).

Number of new cases of female breast cancer, England
1990 1991 1992 19931 19941
Under 1 1 0 0 4 2
1-4 0 1 0 0 1
5-9 0 0 0 0 0
10-14 0 0 1 0 0
15-19 1 4 6 3 2
20-24 26 26 28 20 22
25-29 148 129 170 141 150
30-34 399 442 487 460 512
35-39 874 919 964 882 953
40-14 1,717 1,831 1,791 1,577 1,703
45-49 2,246 2,441 2,818 2,707 2,882
50-54 2,693 3,007 3,124 2,946 3,086
55-59 3,086 3,482 3,298 2,984 3,004
60-64 3,794 3,984 3,859 3,447 3,136
65-69 3,352 3,133 3,057 2,698 2,719
70-74 2,647 2,865 2,998 3,006 3,168
75-79 2,624 2,694 2,597 2,336 2,251
80-84 2,000 2,166 2,282 2,052 2,096
85+ 1,913 2,105 2,138 2,129 1,911
All ages 27,521 29,229 29,618 27,392 27,598
1Provisional

Incidence rates per 100.000 of female breast cancer, England
1990 1991 1992 19931 19941
Under 1 0.3 0.0 0.0 1.3 0.6
1-4 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.1
5-9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
10-14 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0
15-19 0.1 0.3 0.4 0.2 0.1
20-24 1.4 1.4 1.6 1.1 1.3
25-29 7.6 6.5 8.6 7.2 7.7
30-34 23.4 25.1 26.9 24.7 26.7
35-39 55.5 58.1 60.1 54.1 57.1
40-44 99.0 105.2 108.1 97.9 107.1
45-49 159.6 166.0 176.2 162.0 169.2
50-54 208.9 235.5 243.6 225.2 228.8

Incidence rates per 100,000 of female breast cancer, England
1990 1991 1992 19931 19941
55-59 251.5 286.2 270.7 242.0 240.0
60-64 303.9 321.4 314.6 284.7 262.9
65-69 260.8 252.1 252.3 226.8 231.4
70-74 255.1 265.4 267.7 257.5 263.5
75-79 271.8 282.2 280.0 265.7 269.5
80-84 281.7 302.6 318.5 286.0 291.1
85+ 343.4 363.0 353.8 337.0 294.7
All ages 112.2 118.7 120.0 110.7 111.2
DAS2 98.9 105.5 106.2 97.2 97.8
1Provisional
2Directly age standardised using the European standard population