Breast Cancer

(asked on 4th September 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the rate of (a) age-standardised premature mortality from breast cancer and (b) uptake of screening for that cancer was in each clinical commissioning group area in the last period for which figures are available.


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Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 12th September 2018

The Office for National Statistics has published data on the number of deaths and age-standardised mortality rates where breast cancer (ICD-10 code: C50) was the underlying cause of death, in those aged 0 to 74 years, by sex, England and Wales, 2012 to 2016 at the following link:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/causesofdeath/adhocs/008966deathsandagestandardisedmortalityrateswherebreastcancerwastheunderlyingcauseaged0to74yearsbysexenglandandwales2012to2016

Data on the uptake of breast cancer screening are not available by clinical commissioning group level. Figures for uptake for screening during 2016/17 (screening year of 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2017) are published by NHS Digital. The information for each area is provided at a breast screening service level is attached.

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