Database: Belgian Cancer Registry (Belgium): Difference between revisions

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

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Belgian Cancer Registry.

Type of information: Data Dictionary: Belgian Cancer Registry.

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: 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, 1999 onwards for Fandlers region.

Cancer areas of interest: Belgian Cancer Registry. Click here to learn more.

Data access: partially publicly available. Click here to access. Instructions to request data for restricted content click here to access.

Contact information: Click here to access.

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 '''Type of information:''' [[hasDataDictionary::Data Dictionary: Belgian Cancer Registry]].
-'''Available type of information:''' [[availableVariable::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));  [[availableVariable::diagnosis]]; [[availableVariable::sex]]; [[availableVariable::age]]; [[availableVariable::place of residence]]; [[availableVariable::year]]; [[availableVariable::cancer prevalence]]; [[availableVariable::cancer survival]]: observed survival and relative survival; [[availableVariable::tumor staging]]. [https://kankerregister.org/default.aspx?PageId=642].
 '''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.