Database: Croatian National Cancer Registry (Croatia)

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Sponsor, manager or home institution: Croatian Institute of Public Health.

Primary purpose: Register new cancer cases and provide data on incidence, prevalence, and survival in Croatia.

Type of information: Data dictionary was not found.

Available type of information: cancer incidence (number of new cases, percentage, crude incidence rate, standardized world incidence rate, cumulative rate from 0 - 74 years), number of deaths, primary tumor localization, type of cancer, sex, age, year, place of residence [1].

Source of Information: Hospital report forms, primary care report forms, pathology and cytology reports, and death certificates. Additional data sources include hospital discharge diagnoses and outpatient visit diagnoses.

Data level: patient level.

Available data level: regional level.

Number of Records: > 500,000 cancer incidence registries.

Date Range: 1959 onwards [2].

Cancer Areas of Interest: All cancers except non-melanoma skin cancer (C44), including carcinoma in situ and benign and borderline CNS tumors [3].

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

Contact information: Information [6].