Questions and answers

Question reference: S2W-14812

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 28 February 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 8 March 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what research it has commissioned in the last three years into why Glasgow has the highest rate of cancer in Scotland and among the highest rates in the United Kingdom.

Cancer in Scotland: Sustaining Change (2004) recognised that the burden of cancer is unevenly distributed in the population and that people living in the most deprived areas have the highest risk of cancer and lowest probability of survival.

The Glasgow Centre for Population Health has been established with financial support of £1 million per annum from the Scottish Executive. The centre will create and test new models for understanding the patterns and causes of Glasgow’s enduring poor health whilst identifying potential solutions and actions for improvement. One of the more innovative approaches taken by the centre will be the examination of the biological effects of deprivation.

Question reference: S2W-14809

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 28 February 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 8 March 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many incidents or complaints the NHS has recorded of discrimination against (a) minority ethnic communities, including Gypsy Travellers, refugees and asylum seekers, (b) children and young people, (c) disabled people, (d) older people, (e) people of a particular religious or faith group, (f) people from the lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender community and (g) people on the grounds of gender in (i) 1999, (ii) 2000, (iii) 2001, (iv) 2002, (v) 2003 and (vi) 2004.

Question reference: S2W-14637

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 February 2005
Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 8 March 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what the five main causes of death were for (a) males and (b) females aged 35 years and under in each of the last 10 years.

All deaths in Scotland are classified according to the World Health Organisation’s International Classification of Diseases (ICD). The table gives information on the main causes or groups of causes that are considered to be appropriate to people aged under 35. In accordance with standard demographic age groupings, the table covers persons aged under 35 rather than those aged 35 and under. As with all classifications, the ICD tends to group minor categories and split up larger categories. Any choice of a “top five” causes of death is therefore somewhat subjective.

Deaths Aged Under 35, Selected Main Causes, by Sex, Scotland

Cause of death	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003
Males
Suicide (incl. “undetermined”) ¹	255	250	256	282	268	285	279	234	276	197
Drug dependence	94	111	125	102	125	147	143	147	196	159
Road transport accidents	143	162	148	156	135	124	110	139	106	127
Perinatal conditions	106	91	103	82	98	83	96	89	91	82
Congenital anomalies	74	80	76	66	71	59	60	63	61	62
All causes	1,212	1,204	1,223	1,110	1,151	1,146	1,083	1,059	1,113	1,004
Females
Perinatal conditions	85	87	76	58	67	53	74	78	64	67
Suicide (incl. “undetermined”) ¹	64	60	75	75	72	70	69	73	64	66
Congenital anomalies	68	64	63	59	60	44	43	49	41	48
Road transport accidents	40	58	40	41	44	40	33	37	30	46
Drug dependence	31	28	30	20	27	31	40	31	27	18
All causes	565	597	569	515	531	502	507	499	478	483

Note: 1. Deaths classified as “events of undetermined intent” have been included with those classified as “intentional self harm” (suicides) as most of the former are believed to be suicides.

Question reference: S2W-14638

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 February 2005
Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 8 March 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what the (a) birth, (b) mortality and (c) life expectancy rates were for (i) males and (ii) females in each of the last eight years, broken down by NHS board area.

The latest information availableis given in the following tables.

(a) BirthRates¹ by Sex and Health Board Area, 1996-2003

	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003
(i) Males
Scotland	6.0	6.0	5.8	5.6	5.4	5.3	5.2	5.3
Argyll and Clyde	6.1	6.1	5.5	5.4	5.3	4.9	4.8	5.0
Ayrshire and Arran	5.6	5.8	5.6	5.2	5.0	5.1	4.9	5.0
Borders	5.3	5.3	5.1	5.0	5.1	4.9	4.9	4.9
Dumfries and Galloway	5.6	5.4	5.2	4.8	4.7	4.5	4.8	4.4
Fife	5.6	5.5	5.7	5.5	5.2	5.3	5.2	5.3
Forth Valley	6.1	5.9	6.0	5.6	5.3	5.1	5.2	5.5
Grampian	5.9	6.0	5.8	5.6	5.3	5.0	5.2	5.1
Greater Glasgow	6.4	6.4	6.1	5.8	5.7	5.7	5.4	5.7
Highland	6.0	6.1	6.1	5.8	5.4	5.3	4.7	4.9
Lanarkshire	6.3	6.4	6.1	6.0	5.7	5.6	5.4	5.5
Lothian	6.1	6.1	5.8	5.6	5.5	5.4	5.4	5.5
Orkney	6.4	6.2	5.3	4.9	3.6	4.2	3.8	4.7
Shetland	6.1	5.7	5.6	6.2	5.3	6.0	5.7	6.1
Tayside	5.5	5.7	5.5	5.3	5.1	5.2	4.9	5.3
Western Isles	4.9	4.4	4.8	5.2	4.5	4.4	4.4	4.8
(ii) Females
Scotland	5.7	5.7	5.5	5.3	5.1	5.1	5.0	5.0
Argyll and Clyde	5.6	5.6	5.4	5.3	5.2	4.9	4.8	4.8
Ayrshire and Arran	5.5	5.4	5.3	4.9	4.9	4.9	4.6	4.8
Borders	5.4	5.4	4.7	4.9	5.0	5.0	4.6	4.8
Dumfries and Galloway	5.3	5.2	4.9	4.6	4.5	4.2	4.3	4.5
Fife	5.4	5.5	5.4	5.1	4.8	5.1	4.9	5.0
Forth Valley	5.5	5.6	5.4	5.3	5.2	5.0	4.9	5.0
Grampian	5.4	5.4	5.4	5.3	4.8	4.9	4.9	4.8
Greater Glasgow	6.0	6.1	5.6	5.6	5.3	5.4	5.2	5.2
Highland	5.4	5.6	5.6	4.9	4.9	4.9	4.8	5.1
Lanarkshire	6.0	5.8	5.8	5.7	5.6	5.3	5.4	5.4
Lothian	5.8	5.9	5.6	5.6	5.4	5.3	5.1	5.2
Orkney	4.4	5.2	4.6	4.8	4.3	4.8	4.7	4.1
Shetland	5.7	6.9	6.1	6.4	4.9	5.2	3.9	5.4
Tayside	5.4	5.4	5.2	4.8	4.8	4.8	4.6	4.9
Western Isles	4.9	4.6	5.2	4.5	4.0	4.1	4.9	4.9

Note:1. Live births per 1,000 total population.

(b) DeathRates¹ by Sex and Health Board Area, 1996-2003

	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003
(i) Males
Scotland	11.9	11.6	11.5	11.7	11.3	11.2	11.4	11.4
Argyll and Clyde	12.8	12.6	12.4	12.9	12.1	12.1	12.7	12.9
Ayrshire and Arran	12.0	12.8	12.0	12.1	11.9	12.3	12.4	12.5
Borders	12.2	12.4	11.8	11.7	12.1	11.5	12.5	12.9
Dumfries and Galloway	12.5	12.3	12.2	12.3	12.1	12.1	12.0	13.0
Fife	11.5	11.0	11.3	11.1	10.8	10.8	11.3	10.8
Forth Valley	11.9	11.1	10.8	11.2	10.8	10.5	11.3	10.7
Grampian	10.0	9.4	9.5	9.8	9.7	9.8	9.9	9.7
Greater Glasgow	13.6	13.0	13.4	13.4	12.7	12.4	12.7	12.6
Highland	11.8	11.4	11.5	12.0	11.7	11.4	11.3	11.5
Lanarkshire	11.0	11.0	10.7	11.3	10.9	10.5	10.8	10.9
Lothian	11.2	10.7	10.6	10.6	10.2	10.2	9.9	10.0
Orkney	12.1	12.4	13.0	12.6	10.9	12.0	10.2	10.2
Shetland	10.9	10.8	10.6	10.3	7.7	9.6	9.4	10.2
Tayside	12.6	12.1	11.9	12.4	11.9	11.9	12.0	12.0
Western Isles	15.6	15.1	15.0	16.0	15.3	13.8	15.9	16.8
(ii) Females
Scotland	11.9	11.8	11.8	12.0	11.5	11.4	11.6	11.7
Argyll and Clyde	12.5	12.1	12.6	12.5	12.7	12.1	12.3	12.1
Ayrshire and Arran	12.2	12.8	12.4	13.3	12.8	12.7	12.4	12.8
Borders	13.4	13.4	13.3	13.3	12.5	12.4	13.3	13.3
Dumfries and Galloway	12.8	12.3	12.3	12.5	12.0	12.0	12.3	13.0
Fife	11.5	11.4	11.7	11.5	11.0	11.6	11.6	11.5
Forth Valley	11.4	11.0	11.1	11.3	11.1	11.2	11.1	11.3
Grampian	9.8	10.1	10.2	10.7	10.4	9.9	10.2	10.5
Greater Glasgow	13.1	13.1	12.6	13.3	12.2	12.1	12.2	12.4
Highland	11.1	11.5	11.5	11.2	11.4	11.6	11.6	11.5
Lanarkshire	11.0	11.0	10.8	11.1	10.4	10.7	10.9	11.0
Lothian	11.5	11.2	11.0	11.2	10.7	10.3	10.7	10.5
Orkney	11.0	11.8	12.0	9.3	9.3	11.8	11.7	11.2
Shetland	11.1	10.6	10.7	9.3	8.3	10.8	10.1	10.5
Tayside	13.1	12.5	13.0	13.1	12.3	12.6	12.6	13.0
Western Isles	14.6	14.8	13.6	13.8	15.4	13.1	14.9	14.8

Notes:1. Deaths per 1,000 population, males or females as appropriate.

(c)Expectation of Life at Birth by Sex and Health Board Area, 1994-96 to 2001-03¹

	1994-96	1995-97	1996-98	1997-99	1998-2000	1999-2001	2000-02	2001-03
(i) Males
Scotland	72.1	72.2	72.4	72.6	72.8	73.1	73.3	73.5
Argyll and Clyde	71.0	71.2	71.1	71.1	71.4	71.7	72.1	72.0
Ayrshire and Arran	72.5	72.6	72.8	73.0	73.3	73.0	73.0	73.0
Borders	75.0	74.7	74.9	75.1	75.3	75.6	75.5	75.4
Dumfries and Galloway	73.7	73.9	74.2	74.5	75.2	75.2	75.5	74.8
Fife	73.1	73.4	73.4	73.8	74.1	74.5	74.3	74.6
Forth Valley	72.8	73.1	73.1	73.4	73.6	73.9	74.1	74.2
Grampian	73.7	73.9	74.2	74.3	74.4	74.7	74.8	75.0
Greater Glasgow	69.8	69.9	70.2	70.4	70.5	70.6	70.8	71.0
Highland	72.5	72.6	72.8	72.9	72.8	73.2	73.7	74.4
Lanarkshire	71.7	71.7	71.9	72.1	72.3	72.6	72.9	73.0
Lothian	72.8	72.9	73.0	73.4	73.6	74.0	74.4	74.7
Orkney	73.9	74.1	74.1	73.4	74.4	74.5	76.1	75.9
Shetland	71.9	72.1	72.6	73.6	74.3	74.8	75.1	73.6
Tayside	72.6	73.0	73.4	73.5	73.7	73.9	74.2	74.4
Western Isles	71.5	70.7	70.9	71.2	72.2	72.5	72.4	71.6
(ii) Females
Scotland	77.7	77.8	77.9	78.0	78.2	78.6	78.8	78.9
Argyll and Clyde	77.2	77.3	77.3	77.7	77.5	77.9	78.0	78.4
Ayrshire and Arran	77.8	77.7	78.0	77.7	77.8	77.7	78.2	78.6
Borders	79.4	79.6	79.7	79.7	80.0	80.2	80.5	79.8
Dumfries and Galloway	78.8	79.1	79.0	79.1	79.2	79.7	80.3	79.7
Fife	78.5	78.8	78.7	79.0	79.1	79.5	79.5	79.4
Forth Valley	77.6	78.0	78.3	78.7	78.6	78.6	79.0	78.8
Grampian	79.1	79.4	79.6	79.4	79.4	79.7	80.1	80.4
Greater Glasgow	76.1	76.2	76.4	76.5	76.8	77.2	77.4	77.5
Highland	78.7	78.6	78.9	79.0	79.3	79.5	79.2	79.4
Lanarkshire	76.8	76.8	77.0	77.3	77.6	77.9	78.0	78.0
Lothian	78.1	78.2	78.2	78.4	78.5	79.1	79.3	79.5
Orkney	80.5	79.6	79.3	79.8	81.9	82.8	82.2	81.0
Shetland	79.0	80.6	80.0	80.6	81.0	81.6	81.5	80.6
Tayside	78.1	78.3	78.3	78.4	78.8	79.2	79.4	79.2
Western Isles	79.1	79.0	79.7	79.9	80.0	81.0	80.6	79.6

Note:1. Because of the small numbers involved, expectation of life data forsub-national areas are calculated over a three year period.

Question reference: S2W-14651

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 February 2005
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 8 March 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many staff it recruited in each year since 1999, broken down by (a) gender, (b) ethnic origin and (c) disability.

The headcount of permanent new starts to the Scottish Executive core departments, agencies¹ and associated departments in each financial year since 1999, broken down by (a) gender, (b) ethnic origin and (c) disability is provided in the tables.

The data provided includes members of staff who have left and rejoined during the period under investigation. The data therefore reflect the number of new starts, rather than number of individuals.

To ensure the accuracy of our data we are currently resurveying our staff with regards to their ethnicity and disabled status.

(a) Gender

Year	Male	Female	Total
1999-2000	477	448	925
2000-01	412	469	881
2001-02	422	500	922
2002-03	367	406	773
2003-04	291	260	551

(b) Ethnic Origin

Year	Ethnic Minority	Not Known	White	Total
1999-2000	17	125	783	925
2000-01	19	171	691	881
2001-02	31	215	676	922
2002-03	23	138	612	773
2003-04	6	350	195	551

(c) Disability

Year	Not Self Declared	Self Declared	Total
1999-2000	900	25	925
2000-01	847	34	881
2001-02	905	17	922
2002-03	750	23	773
2003-04	528	23	551

Note: Information on staff joining the Scottish Prison Service, Scottish Courts Service, Historic Scotland, Registers of Scotland and the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal is not included.

Question reference: S2W-14652

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 February 2005
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 8 March 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many civil servants in senior grades (a) are women, (b) have a disability and (c) are from ethnic minorities.

The available information requested for staff at Senior Civil Service (SCS) level in the Scottish Executive core departments as at 1 February, 2005 is set out in the table. Of the 189 SCS staff in the core departments, less than 5 have self declared a disability, the exact figure therefore has been withheld for confidentiality reasons.

To ensure the accuracy of our data we are currently resurveying our staff with regards to their ethnicity and disabled status.

Gender	Male	Female	Total
Number of staff	128	61	189

Ethnic Origin	White	Ethnic Minority	Not Known	Total
Number of staff	148	5	36	189

Question reference: S2W-14648

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 February 2005
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 8 March 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive when it last issued guidance to departments and agencies on the implementation of policies or practices on disability and racial discrimination.

The Scottish Executive is committed to equality and takes its responsibilities under the Race Relations Act and the Disability Discrimination Act very seriously.

There are a number of guidance documents on both these areas which are regularly refreshed, and the Equality Unit provides guidance and advice where required.

In the coming months we will be launching a race equality intranet site for Executive staff to help them take forward their legal responsibilities under race relations legislation.

In addition, the Executive’s HR Policy Team has its own intranet site, which provides information and guidance to staff on a range of equality and diversity issues. Hard copies of the Executive’s policies on Dignity at Work and Disability were also issued to all staff on their launch in 2003.

We also publish a research tool which is available on the internet – the mainstreaming equality website at www.scotland.gov.uk/mainstreamingequality.

Question reference: S2W-14650

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 February 2005
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 7 March 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people are employed by each police force, broken down by (a) gender, (b) ethnic origin, (c) disability and (d) grade.

Information is not held centrally on disability or breakdown by ethnic origin. The latest information available on ethnic minority numbers is for 2003-04 from the Annual Statistical Return from forces to Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Constabulary and the figures below (which are on a head count basis) are from this source.

Number of Police Officers by Gender

Force	Male	Female	Total
Central	625	140	765
Dumfries and Galloway	390	102	492
Fife	791	196	987
Grampian	1,020	281	1,301
Lothianand Borders	2,284	509	2,793
Northern	553	133	686
Strathclyde	6,052	1,502	7,554
Tayside	921	246	1,167
Total	12,636	3,109	15,745

Number Of Ethnic Minority* Police Officers

Force	Ethnic Minority
Central	3
Dumfries and Galloway	1
Fife	4
Grampian	3
Lothianand Borders	30
Northern	2
Strathclyde	136
Tayside	6
Total	185

Number of Police Officers by Rank

Force	Chief Officers	Chief Supt/ Superintendent	Chief Insp/ Inspector	Sergeant	Constable	Total
Central	3	11	59	113	579	765
Dumfries and Galloway	2	6	35	80	369	492
Fife	4	13	66	128	776	987
Grampian	3	20	101	205	972	1,301
Lothianand Borders	4	37	192	399	2,161	2,793
Northern	2	8	52	116	508	686
Strathclyde	7	102	523	1,018	5,904	7,554
Tayside	3	14	73	162	915	1,167
Total	28	211	1,101	2,221	12,184	15,745

Number of Police Support Staff by Gender

Force	Male	Female	Total
Central	142	159	301
Dumfries and Galloway	97	213	310
Fife	157	266	423
Grampian	219	513	732
Lothianand Borders	502	736	1,238
Northern	124	221	345
Strathclyde	934	1,623	2,566
Tayside	217	374	591
Total	2,392	4,105	6,506

Number of Ethnic Minority* Support Staff

Force	Ethnic Minority
Central	6
Dumfries and Galloway	0
Fife	6
Grampian	5
Lothianand Borders	12
Northern	1
Strathclyde	21
Tayside	4
Total	55

Number of Police Support Staff by Category

Force	Traffic Warden	Technical	Clerical	Total
Central	22	69	210	301
Dumfries and Galloway	8	140	162	310
Fife	31	33	359	423
Grampian	39	190	503	732
Lothianand Borders	88	21	1,129	1,238
Northern	29	0	316	345
Strathclyde	67	145	2,354	2,566
Tayside	11	123	457	591
Total	295	721	5,490	6,506

*Note: ethnic minority staff are those who describe their ethnic origin as other than “white”.

Question reference: S2W-14641

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 February 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 4 March 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what the current average waiting time is for (a) coronary artery bypass grafts and (b) other cardiac surgery, broken down by NHS board.

Coronary artery bypass grafts and other cardiac surgery are carried out at five NHSScotland hospital sites – Glasgow (two), Aberdeen, Lothian and Clydebank.

The median waiting times for coronary artery bypass grafts and other cardiac surgery, by NHS board of residence, for the year ended 31 December 2004, are provided in the table.

On 31 December 2004, no patient with a guarantee on the in-patient waiting list for coronary artery bypass graft surgery or angioplasty had waited more than 18 weeks for treatment.

NHSscotland: Median Waiting Times¹ for Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts and Other Cardiac Surgery², by NHS Board of Residence. Year Ended 31 December 2004^P.

NHS Board	Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts Median Wait	Other Cardiac Surgery Median Wait
Argyll and Clyde	86 days	85 days
Ayrshire and Arran	88 days	71 days^*
Borders	56 days^*	51 days^*
Dumfries and Galloway	78 days^*	X
Fife	51 days	55 days^*
Forth Valley	74 days	98 days^*
Grampian	96 days	123 days^*
Greater Glasgow	70 days	82 days
Highland	95 days	91 days^*
Lanarkshire	76 days	100 days
Lothian	54 days	70 days
Orkney	X	X
Shetland	X	X
Tayside	74 days	110 days^*
Western Isles	X	X
Scotland	75 days	85 days

Source: SMR01, ISD Scotland.

^PProvisional.

Notes:

X Figures not shown as the number of discharge records is very small (less than 15) and the presentation of the median is potentially misleading.

^*Figures should be treated with caution as they are derived from a possible unrepresentatively small number of discharge records – more than 14 but less than 50.

1. Patients routinely admitted from the in-patient and day case waiting list from home. Includes patients with Availability Status Codes.

2. Cardiac surgery is defined in terms of the Office of Population and Censuses and Surveys Classification of Surgical Operations and Procedures 4threvision (OPCS4). The codes used are K25 to K35 or K40 to K46 as main operation. Coronary artery bypass grafts are defined as the subset K40 to K46 and other cardiac surgery as K25 to K35.

Question reference: S2W-14640

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 February 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 4 March 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many men diagnosed with prostate cancer in each year from 1993-94 to 1999-2000 were still alive five years later, broken down by NHS board area.

The tables below show the number of men diagnosed with prostate cancer (ICD-10 C61) each year, the number still alive five years from their date of diagnosis, by year of diagnosis and health board area of residence

Please note: Death information is available up to 31 December 2003, therefore five year follow-up is only available for patients diagnosed prior to 1 January 1999.

Health Board area of residence	Year of Diagnosis
Argyll and Clyde	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Number diagnosed	129	156	151	172	134	150	163	168
Number alive 5 years from date of diagnosis	39	45	53	71	55	64	n/a	n/a

Ayrshire and Arran	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Number diagnosed	110	109	110	136	144	148	146	161
Number alive 5 years from date of diagnosis	33	37	32	48	63	75	n/a	n/a

Borders	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Number diagnosed	40	39	61	73	64	58	34	55
Number alive 5 years from date of diagnosis	11	18	23	27	26	22	n/a	n/a

Dumfries and Galloway	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Number diagnosed	72	74	81	70	47	74	68	63
Number alive 5 years from date of diagnosis	28	23	36	36	34	32	n/a	n/a

Fife	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Number diagnosed	134	151	160	179	152	137	123	113
Number alive 5 years from date of diagnosis	53	56	61	70	67	66	n/a	n/a

Forth valley	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Number diagnosed	140	108	112	151	129	93	138	140
Number alive 5 years from date of diagnosis	64	58	56	78	64	49	n/a	n/a

Grampian

	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Number diagnosed	182	195	223	223	196	230	249	205
Number alive 5 years from date of diagnosis	65	81	102	75	84	115	n/a	n/a

Greater Glasgow	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Number diagnosed	270	291	288	334	305	285	281	282
Number alive 5 years from date of diagnosis	91	96	106	146	136	123	n/a	n/a

Highland	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Number diagnosed	74	69	82	71	111	123	124	131
Number alive 5 years from date of diagnosis	31	26	27	23	59	62	n/a	n/a

Lanarkshire	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Number diagnosed	139	133	167	188	181	185	151	176
Number alive 5 years from date of diagnosis	46	53	71	80	86	88	n/a	n/a

Lothian	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Number diagnosed	290	352	336	370	313	312	320	374
Number alive 5 years from date of diagnosis	118	161	143	187	163	166	n/a	n/a

Orkney	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Number diagnosed	12	10	3	10	8	5	7	8
Number alive 5 years from date of diagnosis	5	4	-	4	1	2	n/a	n/a

Shetland	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Number diagnosed	10	5	6	11	5	11	8	7
Number alive 5 years from date of diagnosis	3	1	2	5	2	4	n/a	n/a

Tayside	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Number diagnosed	159	151	157	173	157	153	170	161
Number alive 5 years from date of diagnosis	66	56	69	65	70	73	n/a	n/a

Western Isles	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Number diagnosed	3	6	11	10	15	19	12	6
Number alive 5 years from date of diagnosis	1	2	2	2	8	12	n/a	n/a

Scotland	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Number diagnosed	1 765	1 852	1 951	2 171	1 961	1 983	1 994	2 050
Number alive 5 years from date of diagnosis	655	720	785	917	918	953	n/a	n/a

Source: Scottish Cancer Registry, ISD and General Register Office (Scotland) (GRO(S)).

Data extracted: February 2005 (Cancer registrations) and August 2004 (GRO(S) deaths).

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