Cancer Registration Statistics, England 2019

Users of cancer registration statistics include government organisations, health policy-makers, cancer charities, academics and researchers, cancer registries, the general public and the media.

Cancer registration statistics are used to:

• measure the occurrence of cancer within the population of England; used alongside cancer prevalence, mortality and survival, policy-makers can determine the overall burden of cancer, which can inform cancer policies and programmes
• inform cancer research
• feed into cancer information such as leaflets, web pages and campaigns to raise cancer awareness
• produce National Statistics on cancer survival (in conjunction with mortality data), which is used to support policy on prevention and treatment; as well as to monitor a number of cancer performance indicators
• brief Government Ministers and respond to Parliamentary questions
• provide bespoke, aggregated tables in response to customer enquiries.

Other statistics related to cancer are available:

• The Case-mix adjusted percentage of cancer diagnoses at stages 1 and 2 publication contains information on stage at diagnosis for 21 cancer sites/groups for individuals diagnosed from 2013 to 2018.
• The Cancer survival for England Collection provides all bulletins relating to cancer survival:
  • The Cancer survival in England publication provides estimates of adult cancer survival for common cancer types. Survival by stage at diagnosis is estimated where possible. This publication also provides cancer survival estimates for children diagnosed with cancer. This publication has been combined with the geographic patterns of cancer survival in England publication, providing estimates of adult cancer survival for common cancer types, by the regional geographies of Cancer Alliances (CAs) and Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (STPs).
  • The Index of cancer survival for Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in England bulletin presents cancer survival for CCGs, CAs, STPs and England. Separate estimates for breast, colon and rectum, and lung cancers are published.
  • The Conditional crude probability of death from cancer publication provides conditional crude probabilities of death, split by cancer and non-cancer causes, for adult cancer patients in England.
• The Emergency presentations of cancer publication provides the proportion of cancers that present as emergency presentations for all malignant cancers (excluding non-melanoma skin cancer) and are at clinical commissioning group (CCG) level, with England as a whole for comparison.

Cancer incidence statistics across the UK can be accessed from the following individual cancer registries:

Welsh Cancer Intelligence Surveillance Unit [email protected]

PHScotland [email protected]

Northern Ireland Cancer Registry [email protected]

NCRAS, the Office for National Statistics and these other cancer registries (including the National Cancer Registry Ireland, along with specialist registries and cancer charities) are members of the UK and Ireland Association of Cancer Registries (UKIACR), which aims to promote and develop cancer registration in England, Wales, Scotland, the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

The UKIACR specifically provides a:

• focus for national initiatives in cancer registration
• coherent voice for representation of cancer registries in the UK and Ireland
• channel for liaison between registries and for agreeing policy on matters connected with cancer registration
• framework to facilitate the operation of special-interest groups and regional registries
• means of stimulating the development of cancer registration, information procedures and practices, and research based on cancer registry data

UK-wide statistics on cancer incidence can also be accessed through Cancer Research UK.