Skin Cancer
(asked on 22nd July 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many diagnoses of skin cancer there have been in the UK in each year since 1990.
The number of registered skin cancer diagnoses are held from 1995 to 2018, the most recent year for which data is available. The following table shows annual registrations of malignant melanoma of skin and non-melanoma skin cancer in the United Kingdom.
Diagnosis year | Registrations of malignant melanoma of skin | Registrations of non-melanoma skin cancer |
1995 | 4,777 | 36,093 |
1996 | 4,772 | 36,678 |
1997 | 5,050 | 41,457 |
1998 | 5,170 | 46,818 |
1999 | 5,359 | 48,008 |
2000 | 6,039 | 50,637 |
2001 | 6,464 | 52,750 |
2002 | 6,718 | 54,074 |
2003 | 6,994 | 56,530 |
2004 | 7,726 | 60,643 |
2005 | 8,261 | 63,230 |
2006 | 8,972 | 67,647 |
2007 | 9,113 | 76,009 |
2008 | 10,091 | 90,827 |
2009 | 10,242 | 88,954 |
2010 | 10,908 | 96,587 |
2011 | 11,211 | 101,465 |
2012 | 11,518 | 107,619 |
2013 | 12,448 | 114,502 |
2014 | 13,122 | 121,380 |
2015 | 13,431 | 126,118 |
2016 | 13,808 | 131,252 |
2017 | 13,784 | 129,364 |
2018 | 14,824 | 129,002 |
Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/cancer-registration-statistics-england-2018-final-release