Breast Cancer statistics (FOI)

Request

A

How many Islanders were diagnosed with Breast Cancer in 2021 (or most recent date available)?

B

What are the nationalities of Islanders diagnosed with Breast Cancer and what % of each to make up total diagnosed?

C

What were the ages of Islanders diagnosed with breast cancer in most recent stats? 

D

How many Islanders use lymphedema drainage services each year? 

E

How many males / females diagnosed with breast cancer each year?

Response

The National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service (NCRAS) Intelligence Network (NCIN), within Public Health England, has assisted the cancer registration process for the Channel Islands since January 1996.

The below link contains the most recent report from this service to incorporate data for Jersey and Guernsey and is an update using local 2012 to 2016 data for cancer incidence (new cases) and mortality.

This report provides basic statistics on cancer in residents of the Channel Islands between 2003 and 2016. Information on age-standardised rates of incident (newly diagnosed) cancer and deaths from cancer are provided for 21 cancer types/sites as three-year rolling averages and for the latest five years available (2012-2016). Rates are compared to the Southwest region and to England as a whole.

The Channel Islands cancer registration report is currently being updated by the national cancer registration and analysis service and is due for publication in 2023. At this point we are unable to give an exact publication date.

A

The most recent data on diagnosis for breast cancer in Jersey can be found on pages 32-34 of the report linked below. Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has therefore been applied. 

This report contains data up to 2016. Breast cancer data from 2017 onwards will be included in the next iteration of this report and is currently being processed and sent to the National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service (NCRAS). The report will be published in 2023 but at present it is not possible to provide an exact date. Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 therefore applies. 

B

This information is not held. Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 therefore applies. 

C

The most recent data on age at diagnosis for breast cancer in Jersey can be found in page 32-34 of report linked below. Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has therefore been applied. 

D

This information is not held. Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 therefore applies.  

E

The most recent data on gender split for breast cancer incidence in Jersey can be found on pages 32-34 of the report linked below. Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has therefore been applied. 

Channel Islands Cancer Registration Report 2020 (gov.je)

Article applied

Article 3 - Meaning of “information held by a public authority”

For the purposes of this Law, information is held by a public authority if –

(a)     it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person; or

(b)     it is held by another person on behalf of the authority.

Article 23 - Information accessible to applicant by other means

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it is reasonably available to the applicant, otherwise than under this Law, whether or not free of charge.

(2) A scheduled public authority that refuses an application for information on this ground must make reasonable efforts to inform the applicant where the applicant may obtain the information.