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The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated July 2009:"As National Statistician. I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking how many cases of cancer have been (a) diagnosed and (b) successfully treated in (i) Hemel Hampstead constituency, (ii) Dacorum, (iii) Hertfordshire and (iv) the South East in each year since 1997. [285888]""The latest available figures for newly diagnosed cases of cancer (incidence) are for the year 2006. Numbers of (a) newly diagnosed cases of cancer from 1997 to 2006 in (i) Hemel Hampstead parliamentary constituency, (ii) Dacorum local authority, (iii) Hertfordshire county and (iv) the South East government office region in each year since 1997 are given in Table 1.""It cannot be stated definitively whether a patient (b) has been successfully treated. For most cancers, five-year survival rates are often taken to be 'cure' rates. Cancer survival rates are only produced for specific cancers. A figure giving the overall survival rate for all cancer patients is not produced as it would not be meaningful to combine figures for disparate conditions having very different survival rates.""ONS regularly publishes five-year relative survival for patients resident in England, government office regions and strategic health authorities for the most common cancers. The most recent report can be found on the ONS website at:""http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Product.asp?vlnk=11991"<Table width="100%" summary="" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3" border="0"><thead><tr><th>Table 1: Registrations of newly diagnosed cases of all cancers¹: Hemel Hampstead parliamentary constituency², Dacorum local authority, Hertfordshire county and the South East government office region, 1997 to 2006</th></tr></thead><TR><TD></TD><TD>1997</TD><TD>1998</TD><TD>1999</TD><TD>2000</TD><TD>2001</TD><TD>2002</TD><TD>2003</TD><TD>2004</TD><TD>2005</TD><TD>2006</TD></TR><TR><TD>Hemel Hampstead</TD><TD>381</TD><TD>400</TD><TD>439</TD><TD>411</TD><TD>420</TD><TD>389</TD><TD>308</TD><TD>340</TD><TD>478</TD><TD>345</TD></TR><TR><TD>Dacorum</TD><TD>542</TD><TD>585</TD><TD>653</TD><TD>563</TD><TD>549</TD><TD>591</TD><TD>482</TD><TD>527</TD><TD>653</TD><TD>511</TD></TR><TR><TD>Hertfordshire</TD><TD>4,378</TD><TD>4,232</TD><TD>4,321</TD><TD>4,334</TD><TD>4,149</TD><TD>3,967</TD><TD>4,038</TD><TD>4,093</TD><TD>4,640</TD><TD>4,038</TD></TR><TR><TD>South East</TD><TD>36,698</TD><TD>36,240</TD><TD>38,108</TD><TD>37,649</TD><TD>37,967</TD><TD>37,391</TD><TD>37,468</TD><TD>39,018</TD><TD>38,627</TD><TD>38,775</TD></TR><tfoot><TR><td>¹All cancers coded to C00-C97 excluding C44 (non-melanoma skin cancer) in the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10)</td></TR><TR><td>² Based on boundaries as of 2008.</td></TR><TR><td>Source:</td></TR><TR><td>Office for National Statistics</td></TR></tfoot></Table> |