Cancer Registration Statistics, England, 2022

Presents a detailed summary of the 2022 cancer registrations and cancer death registrations. Information on methodology and quality of data is also provided.

New tables updated on 5 June 2025:

Estimates of cancer incidence between 2013 and 2022 are published using the NDRS cancer groups and are aggregated by deprivation and stage at diagnosis for England (Table 1).

Estimates of cancer incidence between 2001 and 2022 are published using ICD-10 codes for England (Table 2).

Estimates of cancer mortality are unchanged and can still be found in Table 4 of the previously published files. 

Previously published files:

Estimates of cancer incidence are published using the NDRS cancer groups and are aggregated by deprivation (Table 1) and stage at diagnosis (Table 2). Tables 1 and 2 are split into 4 separate spreadsheets based on geography – England, former Government office regions, Cancer alliances and Integrated care boards.

The NDRS main groups ‘other malignant’, ‘ungrouped in situ tumours’ and ‘ungrouped uncertain/unknown tumours’ are all non-homogenous groups, and as such are not presented in Tables 1 or 2 of the accompanying data releases.  These diagnoses are presented using ICD-10 codes in Table 3 of the accompanying data releases. 

For comparison to previous years and to align the way mortality is recorded in ICD-10, a table of estimates of cancer incidence in groups defined purely by their location in the body using ICD-10 is provided in Table 3 of the accompanying data releases.  

Estimates of cancer mortality are provided in Table 4 and grouped in the same way as the incidence estimates in Table 3 (i.e. using ICD-10 coding) of the accompanying data releases.  

The main report is accompanied by an interactive data dashboard. This will allow readers to download or view data that is contained within the published data tables, with the added functionality of combining age groups.

Updated on 5 June 2025 to include cancer incidence for small geographic areas. 

Appendix A provides a detailed breakdown of the definitions used to define the NDRS cancer groups used in this report.

The Cancer Registrations: Quality and Methodology Information report provides detailed information on how cancer registrations are defined, their quality and the methods used in this report.