Breast Cancer: Surgery
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many women have had mastectomies in the last three years.
Answered by Karin Smyth
The following table shows a count of Finished Consultant Episodes at hospitals in England for female patients where there was any procedure of mastectomy, from 2021/22 to 2024/25:
Year | Total excision of breast, or complete mastectomies | Other excision of breast, or partial mastectomies |
2021/22 | 16,941 | 44,123 |
2022/23 | 16,525 | 44,581 |
2023/24 | 16,994 | 44,145 |
2024/25 | 12,287 | 33,811 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, NHS England.
The data for 2024/25 is provisional and covers the period from April to December 2024. Provisional data may be incomplete or contain errors for which no adjustments have yet been made. In addition, the data is a count of activity, not patients. A patient may have had more than one admission within this requested timeframe, and may therefore be counted multiple times.
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