Editing Data Dictionary: Socialstyrelsen Cancer Registry

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! Variable Name !! Definition
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| AGE || Patient's age at diagnosis
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| YEAR || Year of diagnosis
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| BEN* || Indicator for malignant or benign tumour according to morphology. (See link to the regulation)
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| DBGRUND1 || Basis for cause of death information. If clinical or forensic autopsy.
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| DIADATE || Date when the diagnosis was established
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| DIADATEN || Date when the diagnosis was established
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| DIGR* || Type of examination underlying the diagnosis.
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| DEATHDATE || Date when the patient died, information from the cause of death register
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| DEATHDATEN || Date when the patient died, information from the cause of death register
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| EXNR || Counter for breast cancer records in the registry, one line per reported breast cancer tumour.
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| FIGO || Tumour spread at the time of diagnosis, gynecological tumours.
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| DOB || Patient's date of birth
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| DOBN || Patient's date of birth
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| HEMFR || Patient's registered residence at the time of diagnosis, extrapolated to January 1 of the latest year
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| HEMFRF || Error code for extrapolating the patient's registered residence
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| ICD7 || Tumour location according to ICD-7, Codes for leukemias and lymphomas according to ICD-8 throughout the period (1958-).
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| ICD9 || Tumour location according to ICD-9
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| ICDO10 || Tumour location according to ICD-O/2 (with some elements of ICD-10)
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| ICDO3 || Tumour location according to ICD-O/3
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| JNR || Information retrieved from the A-form underlying hospital and diagnostic coding. It may be blank.
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| CLINIC || The clinic where the patient's diagnosis was established
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| GENDER || Patient's gender
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| LKF || Patient's registered residence at the time of diagnosis
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| M || Tumour spread at the time of diagnosis, distant metastases.
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| N || Tumour spread at the time of diagnosis, lymph nodes.
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| OBD1 || Tumour identified at autopsy
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| PAD || Tumour's histopathological diagnosis according to C24.1.
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| PATH || Diagnosing pathology and cytology department
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| SSN || Patient's social security number
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| SSNQ || Variable showing the quality of a social security number (SSN). The variable is created using the standard macro checkssn.
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| PREP || Number of the histopathological specimen including year
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| REGION* || Healthcare region
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| RTBDATUM ||
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| MOVDATE || Until 1997, the week when the move was notified; SCB has translated year and week to the first day of each week. From 1998 onwards, the date refers to the day the person reported to the Tax Agency that the move will take place.
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| SENUTV || Until 1997, the week when the move was notified; SCB has translated year and week to the first day of each week. From 1998 onwards, the date refers to the day the person reported to the Tax Agency that the move will take place.
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| SIDE* || Side indication for paired organs
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| HOSPITAL || The healthcare institution where the diagnosis was established
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| SNOMED3 || Tumour's morphological diagnosis according to ICD-O/3
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| SNOMEDO10 || Tumour's morphological diagnosis according to ICD-O/2
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| T || Tumour spread at the time of diagnosis, tumour size.
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| TIMEINV || Until 1997, the week when the move was notified; SCB has translated year and week to the first day of each week. From 1998 onwards, the date refers to the day the person reported to the Tax Agency that the move will take place.
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| TIMEUTV || Until 1997, the week when the move was notified; SCB has translated year and week to the first day of each week. From 1998 onwards, the date refers to the day the person reported to the Tax Agency that the move will take place.
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| TNMGRUND* || Examination underlying TNM. Pathological is indicated if any of T, N, or M is based on morphological examination. Clinical is indicated when only clinical investigation is the basis and morphological examination is lacking.
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| TN || Tumour number in chronological order, all reportable tumours. (If the patient has been diagnosed with multiple tumours)
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| TNMAL || Tumour number in chronological order, only malignant tumours. (If the patient has been diagnosed with multiple tumours)
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| ULTCASE || The disease/injury that initiated the chain of events that ultimately led to death.
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