Skin cancer diagnosis (FOI)Skin cancer diagnosis (FOI)
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Request
Can I please know the numbers of diagnosed skin cancer for 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018
Response
The statistics for the number of specimens reported as skin cancer in the stated years are as follows:
| | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
TOTAL | 788 | 822 | 1018 | 1025 | 1019 |
Please note the same patient may have had one or more diagnosed skin cancers in the same, or in different, year(s), this is not represented as a single entry but instead multiple entries (depending on the number of separate diagnoses).
Data includes all cases coded on the laboratory computer system as ‘skin’ and ‘cancer’.
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