Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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978. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who underwent surgery for cancer in the State in each of the past ten years. [17267/25]

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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The National Cancer Registry (NCRI) was established in 1991 with a statutory obligation to collect and classify information on all cancer cases that occur in Ireland and has been collecting such data since 1994. This information will typically only be made available two to three years after the year of incidence, in keeping with international standards. This means that the data in this answer is provided for the most recent 10 years for which the NCRI have reliable data.

Below is a table of the number of tumours which received tumour-directed surgery in the first year of diagnosis, where surgery was part of the primary course of treatment, excluding Non Melanoma Skin Cancer (NMSC).

This data does not including surgical procedures which were diagnostic/symptom relieving/reconstructive etc. The data does not account for surgeries that happen further along the cancer journey for recurrences or progression. It is also worth noting that the data provided is for the number of tumours treated with surgery, and a single person may have had more than one tumour treated. This is how the data is normally reported.