Publication, Part of Cancer registrations statistics, England
Cancer Registration Statistics, England, 2022
National statistics, Accredited official statistics
New data added:
- Incidence counts and rates have been re-stated for cancers diagnosed between 2012 to 2022, reflecting the updated populations available using the 2021 census
- Counts and rates have been provided for Persons in addition to Males and Females
- We now use https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/documents/2021-lsoa-imd-lookup.xlsx to align deprivation scores with 2021 LSOAs
- The data downloads for Cancer Registrations (Incidence) now contain counts and age-standardised rates for England only. The interactive dashboard contains counts, age-specific, non-standardised and age-standardised rates for England and sub-national geographies
Coming Summer 2025:
- Incidence counts and rates for small geographic areas including, Upper Tier Local Authority (UTLA) 2024 boundaries, Local authority district / unitary authority (LAUA) 2024 boundaries and Middle layer super output area (MSOA) using census 2021
5 June 2025 11:00 AM
Correction notice:
A coding error has resulted in incorrect populations being used as a denominator for age-specific rates for sub-national estimates. This has affected Tables 1 to 4. The coding error has been fixed and the age-specific rates for Government office regions, Cancer alliances, and Integrated care boards have been updated to the correct values.
12 November 2024 12:25 PM
Incidence of all invasive cancers
This section concentrates on invasive cancers excluding non-melanoma skin cancer (ICD-10 C00* to C97 excluding C44*), commonly referred to as “all cancers”.
In 2022, there was an increase in the number of all cancers diagnosed in England, from 329,664 new diagnoses registered in 2021 to 346,217 new cancer diagnoses registered in 2022.
Between 2021 and 2022, the number of all cancers diagnosed in England increased by 7% for males (from 167,917 to 180,877). This increase was mainly due to a rise in the number of prostate cancer diagnoses by 11,354 (26%).
Between 2021 and 2022, the number of all cancers diagnosed in England increased by 2% for females (from 161,747 to 165,340).
More cancers continue to be diagnosed and registered for males (180,877) than females (165,340).
These figures are displayed in Table 3 of the accompanying data release.
Last edited: 10 June 2025 11:46 am