Cancer Registration Statistics, England 2019

Over the last decade, the age-standardised cancer incidence rate (all malignant cancers excluding NMSC) for females has increased from 534 per 100,000 people in 2010 to 553 per 100,000 people in 2019. In females, the malignant cancers with the largest increases were breast, which had an increase in rate of 6 per 100,000 people, followed by lung with an increase of 5 per 100,000 people and melanoma of skin with an increase of 5 per 100,000 people. In contrast, for males, the age-standardised cancer incidence rate (all malignant cancers excluding NMSC) were very similar with 683 per 100,000 people in 2010 and 684 per 100,000 people in 2019.

Figure 6 shows that for both males and females, the age-standardised cancer incidence rates increased year on year until 2013. For males the rates decreased from 714 per 100,000 people in 2013 to 670per 100,000 people in 2017. The rate then increased from 2017 to 2018 but decreased slightly in 2019. For females the rates decreased from 558 per 100,000 people in 2013 to 546 per 100,000 people in 2017. From 2017 to 2019 the rate increased for females to 553 per 100,000 people.