Office of National Statistics (ONS) UK

ONS quality assures and maintains the National Cancer Registration Database for England (1971 to present), using cancer registration information submitted to ONS by the National Cancer Registration Service (NCRS) in Public Health England (PHE). ONS also quality assures cancer registration data for Wales, working in collaboration with the Welsh Cancer Intelligence and Surveillance Unit (WCISU) to do so.

ONS publish all National Statistics outputs on cancer incidence and survival for England, working in collaboration with the Cancer Research Cancer Survival Group (CR-CRG) at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) to produce the cancer survival publications. For further information on ONS cancer-related publications, see the ONS website:

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/taxonomy/index.html?nscl=Cancer

Special extracts and tabulations of cancer data for England are available to order (subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreement of costs, where appropriate). Such enquiries should be made to:

Cancer and End of Life Care Analysis Team
Life Events and Population Sources Division
Office for National Statistics
Government Buildings
Cardiff Road
Newport
NP10 8XG

The ONS Charging Policy is available on the ONS website:

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/about-ons/business-transparency/freedom-of-information/ons-charging-policy/index.html