I am looking for some statistics and finding it really difficult to find up to date cancer statistics. I wondered if you could sign post me to the most current statistics (I was hoping for 2020-2021) for:
1. Newly diagnosed incidence of cancer (does not bee to be by cancer site, just overall incidence.
2. Deaths in Wales of cancer in 2020-2021.
I have searched PHW and the office of national statistics and I can’t seem to find what I am looking for.
hank you for your recent request dated 15 May 2022. Please see the link below for Deaths in Wales from Cancer in 2020-21
Cancer mortality in Wales, 2002-2021 - Public Health Wales (nhs.wales)
Data for 2020 cancer incidence has not published yet, as cancer registrations are still being collated. Latest incidence is available on our website up to 2018 and 2019 incidence will be published within the coming month.
For the following years, these registry data are the highest quality and most complete definitive data on every single case of cancer in the population. They are done to international coding and classification rules and use multiple sources of source data that needs to be weaved together, and then quality assured. Each country’s cancer registry data is comparable and can be used for international statistics. As a result, publishing incidences of cancer are delayed and 2019 will be ready within the month.
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