Data Dictionary: Socialstyrelsen Cancer Registry

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Age of patient at diagnosis

Year of diagnosis

Indicator of malignant or benign tumor based on morphology

Basis for cause of death statement, either clinical or forensic autopsy

Date diagnosis was established

Type of examination that formed basis of diagnosis

Date patient died, information from cause of death register

Tumor spread at time of diagnosis for gynecological tumors

Patient's date of birth

Patient's place of registration at time of diagnosis, forwarded to January 1 of last year

Error code for projecting patient's place of registration

Location of tumor according to ICD-7 codes for leukemias and lymphomas according to ICD-8 during entire period (1958-)

Tumor location according to ICD-9

Tumor location according to ICD-O/2 (with some elements of ICD-10)

Tumor location according to ICD-O/3

Information taken from A-form that was basis for hospital and diagnosis coding (may be blank)

Clinic where patient's diagnosis was established

Patient's gender

Patient's place of registration at time of diagnosis

Tumor spread at time of diagnosis, distant metastases

Tumor spread at time of diagnosis, lymph nodes

Tumor identified at autopsy

Histopathological diagnosis of tumor according to C24.1

Diagnostic pathology and cytology department

Patient's social security number

Variable showing quality of personal identification number (PNR), created using standard macro checking

Number of histopathological preparation including year

Healthcare region

Side indication for paired organs

Healthcare facility where diagnosis was established

Morphological diagnosis of tumor according to ICD-O/3

Morphological diagnosis of tumor according to ICD-O/2

Tumor spread at time of diagnosis, tumor size

Week when move was announced until 1997 (Statistics Sweden has translated year and week into the first day of the respective week. From 1998, the date refers to the day person declared move to Tax Authority)

Research that was the basis for TNM, indicated as pathological if any of T, N, or M is based on morphological examination

Clinical if only clinical examination was the basis and morphological examination is missing

Tumor number in chronological order for all reportable tumors if the patient was diagnosed with multiple tumors

Tumor numbers in chronological order for malignant tumors only if the patient was diagnosed with multiple tumors

Illness/injury that started a chain of events leading to death