Database: Belgian Cancer Registry (Belgium)

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Sponsor, manager or home institution: Belgian Cancer Registry.

Primary purpose: Population-based cancer registry collecting and processing data from patients in Belgium, monitoring cancer statistics and making data accessible.

Type of information: Data Dictionary: Belgian Cancer Registry [1].

Available type of information: cancer incidence (total number of new diagnosis per year, crude rate to 100,000 people, cumulative risk in percentage, European Standardized Rate (ESR) per 100,000 persons per year, World Standardized Rate (WSR)); type of cancer; sex; age; place of residence; year; cancer prevalence; cancer survival: observed survival and relative survival; tumor staging. [2].

Source of Information: Healthcare facilities that have oncology care programs (including pediatric hemato-oncology) and provide services for pathological anatomy are required by law to collaborate with cancer registration.

Data level: patient level.

Available data level: national level and regional level.

Number of Records: All new diagnoses in Belgium of malignant neoplasms, in situ neoplasms/high grade dysplasia, borderline tumours of the central nervous system, ovary and urinary system and benign tumours of the central nervous system.

Date Range: 2004 onwards on a national level.

Cancer Areas of Interest: Belgian Cancer Registry [3].

Data access: partially publicly available [4]. Instructions to request data for restricted content [5].

Contact information: Information [6].