Written answers
Thursday, 9 September 2021
Department of Health
Health Services
Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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981. To ask the Minister for Health the number of lung cancer diagnoses in Ireland in each of the past ten years and to date in 2021. [41484/21]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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982. To ask the Minister for Health the number of breast cancer diagnoses in Ireland in each of the past ten years and to date in 2021. [41485/21]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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983. To ask the Minister for Health the number of bowel cancer diagnoses in Ireland in each of the past ten years and to date in 2021. [41486/21]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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984. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cervical cancer diagnoses in Ireland in each of the past ten years and to date in 2021. [41487/21]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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985. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ovarian cancer diagnoses in Ireland in each of the past ten years and to date in 2021. [41488/21]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The National Cancer Registry Ireland (NCRI) collects, classifies, records and stores information in relation to each newly diagnosed individual cancer patient, and in relation to each tumour that occurs.
NCRI advise that figures for 2019-2020 have not yet been fully validated. The figures available for the most recent NCRI annual statistical report (published Dec 2020) cover the period 2009-2018 and are as follows:
Diagnosis year | Ovarian Cancers |
---|---|
2009 | 350 |
2010 | 364 |
2011 | 355 |
2012 | 390 |
2013 | 357 |
2014 | 425 |
2015 | 416 |
2016 | 384 |
2017 | 400 |
2018 | 387 |
Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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986. To ask the Minister for Health the number of brain cancer diagnoses in Ireland in each of the past ten years and to date in 2021. [41489/21]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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987. To ask the Minister for Health the number of skin cancer diagnoses in Ireland in each of the past ten years and to date in 2021. [41490/21]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The National Cancer Registry Ireland (NCRI) collects, classifies, records and stores information in relation to each newly diagnosed individual cancer patient, and in relation to each tumour that occurs.
NCRI advise that figures for 2019-2020 have not yet been fully validated. The figures available for the most recent NCRI annual statistical report (published Dec 2020) cover the period 2009-2018 and are as follows:
Diagnosis year | all skin cancers | melanoma skin cancers | non-melanoma skin cancers |
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2009 | 8,749 | 776 | 7,973 |
2010 | 9,523 | 896 | 8,627 |
2011 | 10,241 | 895 | 9,346 |
2012 | 10,361 | 875 | 9,486 |
2013 | 10,899 | 1,006 | 9,893 |
2014 | 11,442 | 1,055 | 10,387 |
2015 | 11,850 | 1,133 | 10,717 |
2016 | 11,811 | 1,143 | 10,668 |
2017 | 12,464 | 1,117 | 11,347 |
2018 | 13,032 | 1,157 | 11,875 |
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