Geographic incidence of cancer

We asked

To help with understanding the geographical incidence of various cancers, are you able to provide data at a lower geographical level.

We said

Thank you for your query regarding regional (Hospital/Trust) cancer registrations data.

We publish the number of cancer tumours registered (incidence) in England in each calendar year, as part of the Cancer Statistics Registrations, England (Series MB1) release, which is produced in collaboration with Public Health England.

The latest available cancer incidence rate for 2016 and is available by regions of England (formally known as Government Office Regions) in Table 6:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/datasets/cancerregistrationstatisticscancerregistrationstatisticsengland

Cancer incidence by small area geography can be obtained by contacting the Cancer Analysis team at cancer.newport@ons.gov.uk. Bespoke tabulations of cancer data for England or sub-nationally can be requested (subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreement of costs, where appropriate).

As the only information that can be provided is already available to you via this route, we consider that s.21(1) applies to this request and the information does not have to be supplied under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act. S.21(1) is an absolute exemption and no consideration of the public interest test needs to be applied.