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
Policy context
Users of cancer registration statistics include government organisations, health policymakers, cancer charities, academics and researchers, cancer registries, the public and the media.
Cancer registration statistics are used to:
- measure the occurrence of cancer within the population of England; used alongside cancer prevalence, mortality and survival, policymakers can determine the overall burden of cancer, which can inform cancer policies and programmes
- inform cancer research
- feed into cancer information such as leaflets, web pages and campaigns to raise cancer awareness
- produce Accredited Official Statistics on cancer survival (in conjunction with mortality data), which is used to support policy on prevention and treatment; as well as to monitor cancer performance indicators
- brief Government Ministers and respond to Parliamentary questions
- provide bespoke, aggregated tables in response to customer enquiries.
Last edited: 10 June 2025 11:46 am