Cancer: Wolverhampton

(asked on 9th February 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how long patients in Wolverhampton waited on average to start treatment following diagnosis for (a) lung cancer, (b) breast cancer, (c) cervical cancer, (d) ovarian cancer, (e) prostate cancer, (f) testicular cancer, (g) pancreatic cancer, (h) head and neck cancers, (i) leukaemia, (j) bowel cancer, (k) kidney cancer, (l) colon cancer, (m) GIST cancers, (n) stomach cancer, (o) liver cancer, (p) melanoma, (q) non-Hodgkin Lymphoma and (r) myeloma in each year since 1997; what the average (i) one, (ii) five and (iii) 10 year age-standardised net survival rate for each of those cancers was in each year since 1997; and what proportion of people with each of those cancers was diagnosed at stage (A) 1, (B) 2, (C) 3 and (D) 4 in each year since 1997.


Answered by
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David Mowat
This question was answered on 20th February 2017

Data are not available in the format requested.

Data is published by NHS England on the proportion of patients who received treatment within 62 days of referral by provider for six tumour types: breast, lower gastrointestinal, lung, other, skin, and urological (excluding testicular). These data can be found at:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/cancer-waiting-times/monthly-prov-cwt/

Staging data is published by the National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service for 13 tumour types: bladder, breast, oesophagus, stomach, colorectal, pancreas, kidney, lung, melanoma, Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, ovarian, uterine, and prostate. These data can be found at:

http://www.ncin.org.uk/publications/survival_by_stage

Data on one and five year survival rates for 16 tumour types are provided in Table 1. These data are not published at provider level.

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