Eyes: Cancer

(asked on 6th February 2024) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have been diagnosed with eye cancer in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Andrew Stephenson Portrait
Andrew Stephenson
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 13th February 2024

The National Disease Registration Service in NHS England, as the national cancer registry, collects diagnosis and treatment data on cancer patients in England. The following table shows the number of eye cancer diagnoses, specifically of International Classification of Diseases code C69, each year from 2017 to 2021:

Year

Males

Females

Total

2017

400

341

741

2018

384

356

740

2019

419

372

791

2020

338

297

635

2021

428

358

786

Source: these figures were taken from tables that support National Statistics publication, which are available at the following link: https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/cancer-registration-statistics/england-2021---summary-counts-only


However, health is a transferred matter, and for eye cancer diagnosis rates in Northern Ireland you may wish to contact the Department of Health.

Reticulating Splines