Brain: Tumours
(asked on 23rd March 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people were living with a brain tumour, including all intercranial tumours, on the last date for which figures are available.
This question was answered on 26th March 2015
The UK Cancer Prevalence Project from the National Cancer Intelligence Network and Macmillan Cancer Support will publish 20-year cancer prevalence data in summer 2015, including new statistics on brain tumour survivors. Previous data can be found at:
http://www.ncin.org.uk/view.aspx?rid=76
Note: The brain tumour statistic relates to International Classification of Diseases’ version 10 codes C70-C72.