Bone Cancer

(asked on 11th February 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people were diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma in 2014.


Answered by
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Jane Ellison
This question was answered on 26th February 2015

The latest data currently available is for cancer diagnoses in 2012.

In 2012 there were 85 cases of Ewing’s sarcoma diagnosed in England, of which 59 were Ewing’s sarcoma of the bone, and 26 were extra-skeletal Ewing’s sarcoma (i.e. soft tissue).

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