Rate of deaths from breast cancer ‘highest in city region’
● HALTON has the highest rate of deaths from breast cancer in the Liverpool City Region (LCR) and one of the highest in the country.
Statistics obtained by the Weekly News from the Health And Social Care Information Centre showed that 69 women died from the disease in 2013-15, a rate of 39.3 per 100,000 women.
In second place for the LCR was South Sefton on 38.9.
The lowest was Liverpool with a rate of 31 per 100,000 women.
Across England the average is 34.
The rate in Halton fell from 43.1 deaths per 100,000 women in 2012-14, following a period of increase from 2009-10 when the rate was just 30.4.
They highest figures included Darlington on 46.4, Warrington on 44.3, and Great Yarmouth and Waveney on 43.2.
Across England, 28,532 women died of breast cancer over the course of the three years, or 34 for every 100,000 women.
However, mortality rates varied between different parts of the LCR, and in some places they are much higher.
Across the country, the number of women dying of breast cancer has dropped slightly over the last few years.
Between 2011 and 2013, a total of 28,742 women in England died of breast cancer – more than 200 more than in 2013-15.
Similarly, in the LCR the figure has dropped, although not by much – 644 women in the region died of breast cancer in 2011-13, just 15 more than the number seen over the next three years.