Database: ZfKD Cancer Registry (Germany)

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Sponsor, manager or home institution: Zentrum für Krebsregisterdaten.

Primary purpose: Collect and compile epidemiological cancer data from state cancer registries at the federal level.

Type of information: Patient location, cancer type, cancer location, primary therapies used, cause of death information (in cases of death), among other information. Data Dictionary: ZfkD Cancer Registry [1].

Available type of information: Incidence, prevalence, mortality and survivorship of cancer, case numbers, crude rate, and age-standardized rate, filtered by cancer type, age, gender, and year.

Source of Information: Information is gathered from multiple state cancer registries in Germany. Information about individual state cancer registries [2].

Data level: Patient Level.

Available data level: National level.

Number of Records: Unknown.

Date Range: 1999 onwards.

Cancer Areas of Interest: Cancer Areas of Interest: ZfKD Cancer Registry.

Data access: Partially publicly available [3]. Instructions to request data for restricted content [4].

Contact information: Information [5].