Duchy of Lancaster written question – answered at on 7 July 2008.
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many men were given chemotherapy treatment for prostate cancer in (a) Lancashire and (b) England in each of the last three years.
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated
As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking how many men were given chemotherapy treatment for prostate cancer in (a) Lancashire and (b) England in each of the last three years
The latest year for which data are available is 2005. The table below shows, for 2003-2005, the number of newly diagnosed cases of prostate cancer receiving chemotherapy treatment. The national cancer registration system has chemotherapy treatment recorded for 4.3 per cent of prostate patients in Lancashire county compared to 2.9 per cent in England for the period 2003-05. In 45 per cent of prostate cancer cases in the national cancer registry database for 2003-05, either no treatment information was recorded or patients were recorded as having had no treatment.
Newly diagnosed cases of prostate( 1) cancer receiving chemotherapy treatment( 2) in Lancashire county and England, 2003-05 | ||
Lancashire | England | |
2003 | 10 | 411 |
2004 | 72 | 1,156 |
2005 | 22 | 980 |
(1) Prostate cancer is coded to C61 in the International Classification of Diseases Tenth Revision (ICD-10). (2) Cancer registration data for this period are probably not sufficiently robust to accurately identify small differences in non-surgical treatment. Source: |
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