Kidney Cancer

(asked on 21st October 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have been diagnosed with kidney cancer in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 5th November 2020

The number of people in England diagnosed with kidney cancer in the years 2014 - 2018, which represents the most recent five years available, are shown in the following table. Data for 2019 and 2020 are not yet available.

Year

Number of people diagnosed

2014

9,505

2015

9,362

2016

9,575

2017

9,483

2018

9,438

Notes:

  1. For this response kidney cancer is defined by ICD-10 code C64.
  2. Source: Cancer registration statistics: England 2018 final release, https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/cancer-registration-statistics-england-2018-final-release

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