Survey/Biobank: Finnish Mobile Clinic Examination (Finland)

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Type of database: biobank; survey; imaging; genomics.

Primary purpose: Store the sample collection and data information of participants from the Finnish Mobile Clinic Examination survey. The purpose of the survey was to monitor population health, need for treatment, functional abilities, and collect data for epidemiological search.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: THL Biobank.

Type of information: longitudinal. age; region; sex; marital status; employment status; smoking habit; alcohol consumption; diagnosis; medication use; number of drugs; medical procedures; periodicity of physician consultation; check-up examinations.

Data Dictionary: Finnish Mobile Clinic Examination.

Click here to learn more. There's also a sample collection from the participants at the THL Biobank.

Data level: patient level.

Number of records: About 60,000.

Date range: 1965 - 1980.

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

Data access: not publicly available. Data has access costs. Data requires a grant proposal to be accessed. Instructions to request data for restricted content click here to access.

Contact information: Click here to access.