Skin Cancer

(asked on 25th November 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cases of advanced melanoma there have been in each of the last five years.


Answered by
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Jane Ellison
This question was answered on 4th December 2015

Staging is the term used to describe the size of the cancer tumour and how far the disease has spread. Stage 1 and 2 relate to cancers that are isolated to the organ in which they started; stage 3 and 4 refer to cancers where the disease has spread to lymph nodes or other organs within the body. This is considered advanced melanoma.


The number of cases of melanoma diagnosed by stage in 2013 is shown in the table below, 931 cases of were diagnosed as advanced, 8.8% of all melanoma diagnosis.


Stage of melanoma at diagnosis in England (2013)


1

2

3

4

unknown

Total

Number of cases

7,597

2,038

623

308

1,773

12,339

Proportion

71.9%

19.3%

5.9%

2.9%




Data is only available for year 2013. The staging of cancer tumours in other years is not available, due to data coding and data quality issues.


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