HC Deb 29 June 2000 vol 352 cc569-70W
Mr. Gerald Howarth

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the incidence was of(a) pulmonary heart disease, (b) chronic obstructive pulmonary heart disease and (c) lung cancer in (i) 1970, (ii) 1980, (iii) 1990 and (iv) 1999; and how much it cost to treat each of those diseases in those years. [126825]

Yvette Cooper

Information about the incidence of pulmonary heart disease (PHD) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is derived from the morbidity studies from general practice in the years 1991–92 (the latest year available), 1981–82 and 1971–72. Figures in the table represent patients in England and Wales who consulted their GP for the first time.

per 10,000 population
PHD COPD
1971–72 4.0 84
1981–82 2.0 122
1991–92 more than 0.5 107

In order not to place too large a burden on the National Health Service, data collected centrally on expenditure do not permit analysis at the level of detail requested.

Office for National Statistics data shows that the number and rates per 100,000 of new cases of lung cancer in 1971, 1980, 1990 and 1996 (provisional figures) are as follows:

Lung cancer—number and rates per 100,000 new cases, England and Wales
1971 1980 1990 19961
Number of registrations
Male 25,711 27,791 25,037 22,300
Female 5,767 8,837 11,567 12,700
Age standardised rate per 100,000 population2
Male 108.8 110.0 91.8 77.2
Female 19.2 27.2 32.8 35.1
1Provisional
2Directly age standardized using the European standard population

Source:

Office of National Statistics

Information on the cost of treatment by cancer site is not available.

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