Research and statistics

Analysis and learning from radiotherapy and near miss data reported voluntarily by UK radiotherapy providers and the relevant reporting authorities.

• Document type: Research
• Part of a collection: Medical radiation: uses, dose measurements and safety advice
• Organisation: UK Health Security Agency
• Updated: 31 January 2024

Incidence and survival for a range of cancer types in NI during 1993-2020 with time trends, patient and tumour characteristics and geographic variations in incidence included.

• Document type: Official Statistics
• Organisation: Northern Ireland Cancer Registry
• Updated: 26 May 2022

Evaluation of the first national Cervical Screening Saves Lives campaign, which ran in 2019.

• Document type: Research
• Part of a collection: Cervical screening: data and research
• Organisation: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 25 May 2022

• Background and considerations

  The first national ‘Cervical Screening Saves Lives’ campaign ran from 5…

• GP attendances – screening tests

  This is one of a series of summaries produced for the campaign, each…

• GP attendances – symptoms

  This is one of a series of summaries produced for the campaign, each…

• Cervical screening uptake

  This is one of a series of summaries produced for the campaign, each…

• Testing of overdue participants

  This is one of a series of summaries produced for the campaign, each…

• Cervical screening samples received and reported

  This is one of a series of summaries produced for the campaign, each…

• Cervical screening coverage

  This is one of a series of summaries produced for the campaign, each…

• Result letters delivered within 14 days

  This is one of a series of summaries produced for the campaign, each…

• Colposcopy referrals

  This is one of a series of summaries produced for the campaign, each…

• Urgent GP referrals

  This is one of a series of summaries produced for the campaign, each…

Cancer survival statistics for adults and children by stage at diagnosis and by different geographical variations.

• Document type: National Statistics
• Part of a collection: Cancer survival for England
• Organisation: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 16 November 2021

Presents information on waiting times for patients accessing cancer services at hospitals in Northern Ireland during each quarter.

• Document type: National Statistics
• Organisation: Department of Health (Northern Ireland) and 1 others
• Updated: 30 September 2021

Estimated proportion of all malignant cancers where patients first presented as an emergency.

• Document type: Official Statistics
• Part of a collection: Emergency presentations of cancer
• Organisation: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 11 June 2021

One-year cancer survival by Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) for all cancers combined – breast, colorectal and lung – from 2003 to 2018 and followed up to 2019.

• Document type: National Statistics
• Part of a collection: Cancer survival for England
• Organisation: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 25 March 2021

Estimated proportion of all malignant cancers where patients first presented as an emergency.

• Document type: Official Statistics
• Part of a collection: Emergency presentations of cancer
• Organisation: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 18 March 2021

This update splits the existing cervical screening indicator by age group (25 to 49 and 50 to 64) to create 2 new and distinct indicators.

• Document type: Official Statistics
• Organisation: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 2 March 2021

Annual update of data in the cancer services profiles for the financial year 2019 to 2020.

• Document type: Official Statistics
• Organisation: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 1 December 2020

Cancer mortality statistics for England in 2018, by cancer site, age group and sex.

• Document type: National Statistics
• Part of a collection: Cancer registration statistics for England
• Organisation: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 27 November 2020

Conditional crude probabilities of death, split by cancer and non-cancer causes, for adult cancer patients diagnosed between 2014 to 2018.

• Document type: Official Statistics
• Part of a collection: Cancer survival for England
• Organisation: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 27 November 2020

Estimated proportion of all malignant cancers where patients first presented as an emergency.

• Document type: Official Statistics
• Part of a collection: Emergency presentations of cancer
• Organisation: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 18 September 2020

The Routes to Diagnosis project links multiple health datasets to categorise the pathways that lead to a patient’s diagnosis of cancer.

• Document type: Official Statistics
• Organisation: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 14 July 2020

Presents information on waiting times for patients accessing cancer services at hospitals in Northern Ireland during each quarter.

• Document type: National Statistics
• Organisation: Department of Health (Northern Ireland) and 1 others
• Updated: 26 June 2020

One-year and 3-year case-mix adjusted percentage of cancers diagnosed at stages 1 and 2, as compared to stages 1 to 4, by Clinical Commissioning Group for 21 cancer groups.

• Document type: Official Statistics
• Organisation: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 29 May 2020

Cancer diagnoses and age-standardised incidence rates for all types of cancer by age and sex.

• Document type: National Statistics
• Part of a collection: Cancer registration statistics for England
• Organisation: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 29 May 2020

Population-based statistics on diagnostic intervals for cancer patients for 24 cancer types diagnosed in 2014 and 2015 in England.

• Document type: Official Statistics
• Organisation: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 21 April 2020

Population-based statistics on cancers treated with chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgical tumour resection which were diagnosed between 2013 and 2016 in England.

• Document type: Official Statistics
• Organisation: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 8 April 2020

Presents information on waiting times for patients accessing cancer services at hospitals in Northern Ireland during each quarter.

• Document type: National Statistics
• Organisation: Department of Health (Northern Ireland) and 1 others
• Updated: 26 March 2020