Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many women aged between (a) 50-60 and (b) 60-70 years olds have been diagnosed with bowel cancer in the last 12 months.

Using the Rapid Cancer Registration Data between June 2024 and May 2025, the most recent 12-month period available:

• a total of 2,221 female patients aged 50 to 59 years old were diagnosed with bowel cancer in England; and
• a total of 3,380 female patients aged 60 to 69 years old were diagnosed with bowel cancer in England.

Further information is available at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/ndrs/data/data-sets/rcrd