Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the cancer dashboard includes tumour-specific data for ovarian and other less common cancers; and if not, whether they plan to include that data in the future.

Public Health England and NHS England developed the first iteration of the cancer dashboard in response to recommendations in the Independent Cancer Taskforce report Achieving world-class cancer outcomes: a strategy for England 2015-2020. A copy of the report is attached. This includes data on breast, colorectal, lung and prostate cancers. Further cancer sites (including ovarian cancer) were not included because of the risk of making patients identifiable when viewing data for individual hospitals or clinical commissioning groups.

A second iteration of the dashboard is being considered by the National Cancer Transformation Board with a wider ambition to include rarer cancers and cancers with a lower incidence as the dashboard develops.