Cancer: Medical Treatments

(asked on 8th September 2020) - View Source
Questioner
Henry Smith Portrait
Henry Smith
(Conservative - Crawley)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 29 May 2020 to Question 43622, how many people received chemotherapy treatment in (a) May 2019, (b) June 2019, (c) April 2020, (d) May 2020 and (e) June 2020 for the treatment of (i) breast cancer, (ii) bowel cancer, (iii) lung cancer, (iv) blood cancer and (v) prostate cancer.

Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 10th November 2020

The data in the following table shows first or subsequent treatment of chemotherapy in May 2019, June 2019, April 2020, May 2020 and June 2020 for the treatment of breast cancer, lower intestinal cancer, lung cancer, urological cancer and haematological cancer:

Breast

Lower Gastrointestinal

Lung

Urological

Haematological

May 2019

1,856

1,148

1,154

817

1,982

June 2019

1,744

1,127

1,070

793

2,021

April 2020

1,044

750

639

381

1,335

May 2020

1,480

1,066

815

508

1,525

June 2020

1,610

1,095

863

725

1,697

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