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Skin cancer diagnosis (FOI)

Skin cancer diagnosis (FOI)

Produced by the Freedom of Information office
Authored by Government of Jersey and published on 22 August 2019.
Prepared internally, no external costs.

​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

​788822​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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