Newly diagnosed colon cancer in England 1995-2021, by gender
This statistic shows the registrations of newly diagnosed cases of colon cancer in England from 1995 to 2021, by gender. Colon cancer, also known as colorectal cancer, occurs in the colon or rectum more specifically it occurs when cells in the colon or rectum begin to grown abnormally. In 2021, over 15 thousand men and 13.6 thousand women were registered as newly diagnosed with colon cancer.