Peadar Tóibín
Question:987. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of skin cancer diagnoses in Ireland in each of the past ten years and to date in 2021. [41490/21]
View answerThursday, 9 September 2021
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The National Cancer Registry Ireland (NCRI) collects, classifies, records and stores information in relation to each newly diagnosed individual cancer patient, and in relation to each tumour that occurs.
NCRI advise that figures for 2019-2020 have not yet been fully validated. The figures available for the most recent NCRI annual statistical report (published Dec 2020) cover the period 2009-2018 and are as follows:
|
Diagnosis year |
all skin cancers |
melanoma skin cancers |
non-melanoma skin cancers |
|
2009 |
8,749 |
776 |
7,973 |
|
2010 |
9,523 |
896 |
8,627 |
|
2011 |
10,241 |
895 |
9,346 |
|
2012 |
10,361 |
875 |
9,486 |
|
2013 |
10,899 |
1,006 |
9,893 |
|
2014 |
11,442 |
1,055 |
10,387 |
|
2015 |
11,850 |
1,133 |
10,717 |
|
2016 |
11,811 |
1,143 |
10,668 |
|
2017 |
12,464 |
1,117 |
11,347 |
|
2018 |
13,032 |
1,157 |
11,875 |