Adrenocortical Carcinoma

(asked on 6th February 2024) - 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 adrenal cortex carcinoma in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Andrew Stephenson Portrait
Andrew Stephenson
This question was answered on 13th February 2024

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 adrenal cortex carcinoma diagnoses each year from 2017 to 2021:

Year

Males

Females

Total

2017

18

29

47

2018

21

25

46

2019

36

29

65

2020

13

21

34

2021

17

34

51

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.

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