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<p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics
Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p><p> </p><p>Dear Baroness Jolly,</p><p>
</p><p>As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority,
I am replying to your Parliamentary Question asking how many people were diagnosed
with cancer in the last year available, broken down by cancer type and cancer alliance
area <strong>(HL13595)</strong>.</p><p> </p><p>The Office for National Statistics
(ONS) in collaboration with Public Health England publishes the number of cancer diagnoses
registered in England in each calendar year, as part of its Cancer Statistics Registrations,
England release. The latest available cancer incidence data is available for 2016
and was published by ONS in June 2018[1].</p><p> </p><p>Table 1 attached provides
the number of cancer registrations in 2016 for each cancer type that we normally publish,
for each of the nineteen cancer alliance areas in England. These figures are for all
ages and both sexes combined. A copy has been placed in the House of Lords Library.</p><p>
</p><p>While ONS does not hold cancer registrations data for Northern Ireland, Scotland
or Wales, similar figures are published by the Northern Ireland Cancer Registry[2],
the Scottish Cancer Registry[3] and the Welsh Cancer Intelligence and Surveillance
Unit[4], respectively.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Yours sincerely</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>John
Pullinger </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1]<a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/bulletins/cancerregistrationstatisticsengland/final2016"
target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/bulletins/cancerregistrationstatisticsengland/final2016</a></p><p>[2]<a
href="http://www.qub.ac.uk/research-centres/nicr/" target="_blank">http://www.qub.ac.uk/research-centres/nicr/</a></p><p>[3]<a
href="http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Cancer/" target="_blank">http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Cancer/</a></p><p>[4]<a
href="http://www.wcisu.wales.nhs.uk/home" target="_blank">http://www.wcisu.wales.nhs.uk/home</a></p><p>
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