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Cancer: Diagnosis

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 24459, tabled on 16 January 2025

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to NHS England's news entitled Early cancer diagnosis in England reaches highest ever level, published on 2 January 2025, whether data on the number of cancers diagnosed at (a) Stage 1 and (b) Stage 2 is collected by cancer type.

Answered on

21 January 2025

Data on the number of all stageable cancers diagnosed at both stage 1 and stage 2 are collected by cancer type. This data is compiled by the National Disease Registration Service and published by NHS England, with more information available at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/cancer-registration-statistics