Cancer Mortality Rates

Part of 2. Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services – in the Senedd at 2:47 pm on 25 September 2019.

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Photo of Vaughan Gething Vaughan Gething Labour 2:47, 25 September 2019

Yes. Cancer mortality is improving across Wales, including the north. The European age-standardised mortality rate for cancer in north Wales has fallen from 348.3 in every 100,000 in 2001 to 276 by 2017. That represents a 21 per cent fall over 17 years.