Lung Cancer

HC Deb 08 May 2002 vol 385 c260W

Mr. Wray

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much has been spent on lung cancer treatment in each year since 1997. [53594]

Yvette Cooper

The Department does not collect figures on the cost of NHS services in a way that enables an accurate figure to be calculated for the cost of a particular disease.

Mr. Wray

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what proportion of cases of lung cancer in the last five years can be attributed to smoking. [53595]

Yvette Cooper

These data are not routinely collected. The latest estimate of the proportion of deaths from lung cancer was made by the Health Education Authority who estimated in their 1998 report, "The UK Smoking Epidemic: Deaths in 1995", that in 1995 84 per cent. of all deaths from lung cancer (90 per cent. men, 73 per cent. women) in the United Kingdom were caused by smoking.