Database: Slovenian Cancer Registry (Slovenia)

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Sponsor, manager or home institution: Institute of Oncology Ljubljana [1].

Primary purpose: To provide comprehensive historical and ongoing data on cancer incidence, prevalence, mortality, and survival in Slovenia, serving as a critical resource for epidemiological and oncological research and evaluating the effectiveness of cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and care, as well as for planning necessary resources for cancer control.

Type of information: Definitions of routinely prepared cancer burden measures are on website [2].

Available type of information: cancer incidence; cancer prevalence; age; type of cancer; cancer survival; sex; Cancer comparisons with Europe; Cancer mortality; number of patients that received cancer treatment.

Source of Information: Source for incidence and prevalence is the Slovenian Cancer Registry (SCR) [3]. Source for mortality is the National Institute of Public Health [4].

Data level: patient level.

Available data level: national level.

Number of Records: Reports with the number of cancers for each incidence year [5].

Date Range: From 1950 onwards.

Cancer Areas of Interest: neoplasms (C00-D49)

Data access: publicly available on aggregated level [6]. Reports information [7]. Instructions to request data for restricted content [8].

Contact information: Information [9].