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Primary purpose: Promote the early diagnosis of cancer in order to start treatment early and thus decrease the national cancer mortality rate.
Sponsor, manager or home institution: Direção Geral da Saúde (DGS).
Type of information: Information regarding breast, cervical, colon, and rectal cancer screening. Examples of available data are the screening adherence rate, test positivity rate, geographic coverage rate, coverage rate by region, and number of eligible populations.
Source of information: Forms filled out by the regional Health Administrations and the Autonomous Regions of Portugal.
Data level: regional level.
Number of Records: unknown.
Date range: The project occurs since 1990. Regional-level data is available from 2014 onwards.
Cancer Areas of Interest: cervical cancer (C53), breast cancer (C50) and colon cancer (C18-C20).
Data access: publicly available [2]. Monitoring reports are available at the General Health Directorate (DGS) [3]. The 2015 report information [4].
Contact information: Information [5].
