Database: National Cancer Registry (Ireland)

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Type of database: registry.

Primary purpose: Collect and disseminate cancer incidence statistics.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: National Cancer Registry of Ireland.

Type of Information: longitudinal. place of residence; year; age; tumour staging; tumour histology; region; hospital location; diagnosis; number of deaths; cancer incidence; screening; medical procedures; sex; cancer survival.

Data Dictionary: National Cancer Registry.

Available type of information: cancer incidence and cancer survival by year, age, stage, diagnosis, sex, county, region and childhood cancer. Click here to learn more.

Source of Information: Data is collected from hospital medical records by nurses acting as hospital liaisons. Death information is collected using death certificates.

Data level: patient level.

Available data level: regional level and national level.

Number of records: unknown.

Date range: 1994 onwards.

Cancer areas of interest: C00-D48: All neoplasms. Click here to learn more. Full list of cancer types:

Cancer Areas of Interest: National Cancer Registry.

Data access: partially publicly available. Click here to access. Data can be downloaded in the formats XLSX; CSV; TXT; PDF; PNG; JPEG and SVG. Instructions to request data for restricted content click here to access.

Contact information: Click here to access.

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