Prostate Cancer
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many men between the ages of 50 and 60 have been diagnosed with prostate cancer in the last six months.
Answered by Ashley Dalton
The following table shows the number of diagnoses of prostate cancer, from September 2024 to February 2025, the latest available data:
Date | Number of diagnoses |
September 2024 | 516 |
October 2024 | 579 |
November 2024 | 518 |
December 2024 | 628 |
January 2025 | 696 |
February 2025 | 629 |
Source: the Rapid Cancer Registration Data set for prostate cancer in males aged 50 to 59 years old, with further information available at the following link:
https://digital.nhs.uk/ndrs/data/data-outputs/cancer-data-hub/rapid-cancer-registration-data-dashboards
Therefore, the total estimated number of men diagnosed with prostate cancer between 50 to 59 years old, over the most recent six months available, is 3,566.
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