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 pseudomyxoma peritonei in each of the last five years.

The National Disease Registration Service in NHS England, as the national cancer registry, collects diagnosis and treatment data on cancer patients in England. The following table shows the number of pseudomyxoma peritonei diagnoses each year from 2017 to 2021:

Source: these figures are taken from the tables that support the National Statistics publication, which are available at the following link: https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/cancer-registration-statistics/england-2021---summary-counts-only

However, health is a transferred matter, so for cancer diagnosis rates in Northern Ireland you may wish to contact the Department of Health.