Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the mortality rate was for people under 75 years of age with cancer in each of the last three years.
The directly age-standardised cancer mortality rates per 100,000 population in England under 75 years of age for each of the three most recently published years are shown in the following table:
Year | Mortality rate |
2015 | 136.4 |
2016 | 135.6 |
2017 | 131.8 |