Breast Cancer: Diagnosis and Mortality Rates

(asked on 3rd September 2018) - View Source
Questioner
Karen Lee Portrait
Karen Lee
(Labour - Lincoln)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the most recent data on breast cancer (a) mortality rates and (b) stage detection rates by clinical commissioning groups.

Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 11th September 2018

The most recent data on breast cancer diagnosis and mortality are from 2016, and are available in the following table.

Directly age-standardised2 rates per 100,000 population of registrations of deaths from breast cancer (ICD-10 code: C50) between 2012 and 2016, England

ICD-10 code

Sex

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

C50

Males

0.3

0.4

0.3

0.3

0.3

Females

36.4

35.3

34.5

34.3

34.1

Source: Office for National Statistics

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/datasets/cancerregistrationstatisticscancerregistrationstatisticsengland

Notes:

  1. According to the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10), breast cancer is defined as a malignant neoplasm of breast (ICD-10 code: C50).
  2. Directly age-standardised using the 2013 update of the European Standard Population with an upper age band of 90+.

Data on stage at diagnosis for breast cancer at clinical commissioning group level is attached.

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