Cervical Cancer
(asked on 1st May 2018) - View Source
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what were the incidence rates of cervical cancer among (1) 18–49 year old women, and (2) women over the age of 50, in England for each year since 2011.
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Letter from John Pullinger CB, National Statistician, to The Countess of Mar, dated 3 May 2018.
Dear Lady Mar,
As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am replying to your Parliamentary Question asking what were the incidence rates of cervical cancer among (1) 18-49 year old women, and (2) women over the age of 50, in England for each year since 2011 (HL7466).
The Office for National Statistics (ONS), in collaboration with Public Health England, publishes the number of cancer cases registered (incidence) in England in each calendar year, as part of its Cancer Statistics Registrations, England (Series MB1) release. The latest available cancer incidence data published by ONS are provisional figures for 2016[1]. The provisional 2016 release does not contain a refreshed back series of cancer incidence, which would consider the continual accrual of late registrations. Therefore, the historic figures (from 2011 to 2015) below are based on the 2015 National Statistics release[2].
Cervical cancer is defined using International Classification of Diseases, 10th edition (ICD-10) code C53 (malignant neoplasm of cervix uteri). Table 1 overleaf provides the number and rate of women diagnosed cases of cervical cancer, (ICD-10: C53) by age group, in England from 2011 to 2016.
While ONS does not hold cancer incidence data for Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales, similar figures are published by the Northern Ireland Cancer Registry[3], the Scottish Cancer Registry[4] and the Welsh Cancer Intelligence and Surveillance Unit[5], respectively.
Yours sincerely,
John Pullinger
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18-49 | Count | 1,576 | 1,555 | 1,642 | 1,655 | 1,609 | 1,590 | |||||
50+ | Count | 979 | 989 | 1,037 | 950 | 906 | 1,003 | |||||
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18-49 | Rate | 13.4 | 13.3 | 14.0 | 14.2 | 13.8 | 13.6 | |||||
50+ | Rate | 10.1 | 10.0 | 10.4 | 9.3 | 8.7 | 9.5 | |||||
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1. Cervical cancer is defined according to the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) as C53. | ||||||||||||
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Source: Office for National Statistics |
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Table 1: Incidence counts and rates per 100,000 women of cervical cancer by age group, England, 2011 to 20161
[3] http://www.qub.ac.uk/research-centres/nicr/