Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 91341

Prostate Cancer

Tabled: 17 November 2025
Answered: 24 November 2025

Question

Jim Shannon

Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many men between the age of 40 and 50 have been diagnosed with Prostrate cancer in England in each of the last 3 years.

Answer

Ashley Dalton

Data on the number of prostate cancer diagnoses is publicly accessible, and the most recently published data is available at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/cancer-registration-statistics/england-2023

The three most recently published years of data are 2021, 2022, and 2023. The number of men between the ages of 40 to 49 years old diagnosed with prostate cancer in each of those years is 401, 558, and 624 respectively.