Statistics from National Statistics & ONS

Fig.: England and Wales
Rates for all deaths per million population for selected causes

	2007		2008
	Male	Female	Male	female
Malignant cancers
Oesophagus	128	47	131	47
Stomach	82	35	79	35
Colon	128	92	129	90
Rectum and anus	88	48	90	48
Trachea, bronchus, lung	498	300	496	307
Melanoma of skin	31	21	31	22
Breast	3	267	2	263
Cervix uteri	-	24	-	23
Overy	-	96	-	93
Prostate	247	-	240	-
Bladder	81	27	79	27
Leukaemia	66	38	65	37
Vascula diseases
Ischaemic heart disease	1280	592	1211	562
Cerebro vascular disease	481	455	468	442
Other diseases
Pneumonia	303	251	301	255
				226
Bronchitis, emphysema and other chronic obstructive pulmonary disease	337	218	346	282
Asthma	11	14	10	15
Diabetes mellitus	71	53	73	51
Gastric and duodenal ulcer	39	26	40	27
Diseases of the liver	162	87	164	86
On a total on this list	4,036	2,691	3,955	2,656

Note: Figures for 2006, 2007 en 2008 are registered deaths.

Source: National Statistics & ONS