3,300 new cases of cervical cancer each year, 2017-2019 average, UK.
Deaths
890 deaths from cervical cancer, 2021-2023, UK.
Survival
63.5% survive cervical cancer for 10 or more years, 2018, UK.
Preventable cases
99.8% of cervical cancer cases are preventable, UK, 2015.
There are around 3,300 new cervical cancer cases in the UK every year, that's around 9 every day (2017-2019).
Cervical cancer is not among the 20 most common cancers in the UK, accounting for 1% of all new cancer cases (2017-2019).
In females in the UK, cervical cancer is the 14th most common cancer, with around 3,300 new cases every year. That's 2% of all new female cancer cases in the UK (2017-2019).
Incidence rates for cervical cancer in the UK are highest in females aged 30 to 34 (2017-2019).
Each year around a tenth (9%) of all new cervical cancer cases in the UK are diagnosed in people aged 75 and over (2017-2019).
Since the early 1990s, cervical cancer incidence rates in females have decreased by a quarter (25%) in the UK (2017-2019).
Over the last decade, cervical cancer incidence rates in females have remained stable in the UK (2017-2019).
Cervical cancer incidence rates in England in females are 65% higher in the most deprived quintile compared with the least (2013-2017).
Around 520 cases of cervical cancer each year in England are linked with deprivation.
Incidence rates for cervical cancer are lower in the Asian and Black ethnic groups, compared with the White ethnic group, in females in England (2013-2017). See our publication Cancer Incidence by Broad Ethnic Group for more details.
An estimated 34,800 women who had previously been diagnosed with cervical cancer were alive in the UK at the end of 2010.
See more in-depth cervical cancer incidence statistics
There are around 890 cervical cancer deaths in the UK every year, that's more than 2 every day (2021-2023).
Cervical cancer is not among the 20 most common causes of cancer death in the UK, accounting for 1% of all cancer deaths (2021-2023).
In females in the UK, cervical cancer is the 19th most common cause of cancer death, with around 890 deaths every year. That's 1% of all female cancer deaths in the UK (2021-2023).
Mortality rates for cervical cancer in the UK are highest in females aged 85 to 89 (2021-2023).
Each year more than a quarter (27%) of cervical cancer deaths in the UK are in people aged 75 and over (2021-2023).
Since the early 1970s, cervical cancer mortality rates in females have decreased by three-quarters (75%) in the UK (2021-2023).
Over the last decade, cervical cancer mortality rates in females have decreased by around a seventh (13%) in the UK (2021-2023).
Almost 2 in 3 (63.5%) females diagnosed with cervical cancer in the UK survive their disease for ten years or more, it is predicted (2018).
Almost 9 in 10 (86.4%) females in the UK diagnosed with cervical cancer aged 15-44 survive their disease for ten years or more, compared with around 1 in 5 (18.7%) females diagnosed aged 75-99 (2018).
Cervical cancer survival has increased in the last 50 years in the UK.
In the 1970s, almost 1 in 2 (48.2%) females diagnosed with cervical cancer survived their disease beyond ten years, by 2018 it was almost 2 in 3 (63.5%).
Two-thirds (65.7%) of women in England diagnosed with cervical cancer in the least deprived group survive their disease for five years or more, compared with almost 6 in 10 (56.2%) women in the most deprived group (2016-2020).
Five-year relative survival for cervical cancer in women is below the European average in England, Wales and Scotland but similar to the European average in Northern Ireland.
For cervical cancer, like other cancer sites, survival trends reflect a combination of changes in treatment and stage distribution. These factors themselves can vary by age, sex and deprivation.
Further survival statistics by stage can be found on the Early Diagnosis Data Hub and information on treatments for cancer can be found here.
A person’s risk of developing cancer depends on many factors, including age, genetics, and exposure to risk factors (including some potentially avoidable lifestyle factors).
1 in 130 UK females will be diagnosed with cervical cancer in their lifetime (born in 1961).
99.8% of cervical cancer cases in the UK are preventable.
99.8% of cervical cancer cases in the UK are caused by infections.
21% of cervical cancer cases in the UK are caused by smoking.
See our Early Diagnosis Data Hub; for statistics on routes to diagnosis and screening uptake/coverage (for relevant cancer types)
For the most up-to-date statistics on early diagnosis and other metrics see our publications
Cervical cancer treatment
See our Treatment Data Hub which gathers information and statistics across a number of cancer treatment measures, including proportions of treatments given over time and detailed data on radiotherapy delivery. You can also ”view overviews of many national cancer site audits, split by site and country.
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