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I have been asked to reply.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 skin cancers were diagnosed in each year since 1997. [285450]""The latest available figures for newly diagnosed cases (incidence) of malignant melanoma of skin registered in England are for the year 2006. Figures for the years 1997 to 2006 are shown in the table below."<Table width="100%" summary="" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3" border="0"><thead><tr><th>Registrations of newly diagnosed cases of malignant melanoma of skin,¹ England, 1997 to 2006</th></tr></thead><TR><TD>England</TD><TD>Number</TD></TR><TR><TD>1997</TD><TD>5,018</TD></TR><TR><TD>1998</TD><TD>5,138</TD></TR><TR><TD>1999</TD><TD>5,337</TD></TR><TR><TD>2000</TD><TD>5,996</TD></TR><TR><TD>2001</TD><TD>6,406</TD></TR><TR><TD>2002</TD><TD>6,661</TD></TR><TR><TD>2003</TD><TD>6,918</TD></TR><TR><TD>2004</TD><TD>7,596</TD></TR><TR><TD>2005</TD><TD>8,102</TD></TR><TR><TD>2006</TD><TD>8,658</TD></TR><tfoot><TR><td>¹ Malignant melanoma of skin is coded to C43 in the International Classification of Diseases Tenth Revision (ICD-10)</td></TR><TR><td>Source:</td></TR><TR><td>Office for National Statistics</td></TR></tfoot></Table> |