Oral Cancer

(asked on 19th January 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many oral cancers were identified at stage (a) 0, (b) 1, (c) 2, (d) 3 and (e) 4 in each year since 2015; and how many and what proportion of those were identified by dentists.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 27th January 2023

The National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service (NCRAS), part of NHS Digital, collects data on all cancers diagnosed in England. The following table shows the number of diagnoses of oral cancer in England between 2015 and 2020.

Year

Stage at diagnosis

Diagnoses of oral cancer

Number referred by dentists

Proportion referred by dentists

2015

1

1,015

117

12%

2015

2

580

49

8%

2015

3

637

25

4%

2015

4

3,104

176

6%

2015

Not staged

418

12

3%

2015

Unstageable

11

0

0%

2016

1

1,027

111

11%

2016

2

615

53

9%

2016

3

554

27

5%

2016

4

3,392

177

5%

2016

Not staged

417

18

4%

2016

Unstageable

7

0

0%

2017

1

1,061

134

13%

2017

2

613

58

9%

2017

3

620

31

5%

2017

4

3,429

214

6%

2017

Not staged

383

20

5%

2017

Unstageable

9

0

0%

2018

1

1,060

132

12%

2018

2

561

55

10%

2018

3

864

41

5%

2018

4

3,339

235

7%

2018

Not staged

520

19

4%

2018

Unstageable

9

0

0%

2019

1

1,727

162

9%

2019

2

1,063

88

8%

2019

3

918

56

6%

2019

4

1,941

270

14%

2019

Not staged

1,091

63

6%

2019

Unstageable

2

0

0%

2020

1

1,782

131

7%

2020

2

902

73

8%

2020

3

929

49

5%

2020

4

2,065

312

15%

2020

Not staged

742

33

4%

2020

Unstageable

2

0

0%

Source: Cancer Registration Statistics, England 2020

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