§ Tim LoughtonTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of children have developed skin cancer in each of the last seven years. [165579]
§ Dawn PrimaroloI have been asked to reply.
224WThe information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Tim Loughton, dated 7 April 2004:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent question concerning what percentage of children have developed skin cancer in each of the last seven years. [165579].
The latest year for which figures are available is 2000. The proportion' of all children aged 0–14 years registered with a newly diagnosed case of melanoma of the skin2 for each of the seven years 1994–2000 in England, are given in the table below.
Number of children aged 0–14 years that developed skin1 cancer, and rate of occurrence, England, 1994–2000
Number of cases Rate per million children1 1994 15 2 1995 7 1 1996 10 1 1997 8 1 1998 9 1 1999 6 1 2000 5 1 1 Proportions are presented as rates per million population aged 0–14 in each year. The populations used are interim revised midyear population estimates for England, released in November 2003. 2 For the year 1994, International Classification of Disease, Ninth Revision Code (ICD-9) Code C172 For the years 1995 to 2000, International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) code C43. Source: Office for National Statistics.