Cancer - What’s available from the LHO? David Hofman

Methods of presentation Tabulations Graphs Maps 30,000 cancer deaths per year – 1,000 per borough – 45 per ward

Sources TCR : incidence data Department of Health: hospital admissions (HES) ONS: mortality data

Standardised Admission Rates (SAR)

Female Breast Cancer Incidence, South East London (source: TCR)

All cancers mortality rates, SE London

Lung cancer mortality rates, SE London

Standardised mortality ratios for cancer, persons all ages,

Other features of website Analysis of trends Screening programmes Information sources

Joint work between LHO and TCR Ethnicity A review of ethnicity coding using HES and cancer incidence data looking at how it varies by cancer network, diagnosis, age, sex etc. Deprivation To explore the available indices of deprivation and discuss the advantages and disadvantage of each index. To analyse differences in cancer incidence, admissions and survival by deprivation.