Database: OECD Health Statistics (European Union)

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Type of Database: registry

Primary purpose: Provides health data and metadata for OECD countries and selected non-member economies.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

Type of information: longitudinal. year; sex; cancer incidence; diagnosis; causes of death; region. Click here to learn more.

Source of Information: International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and World Health Organisation Mortality Database.

Data level: national level.

Number of Records: unknown.

Date range: 1960-2021.

Cancer Areas of Interest: C00-C97: All cancer types. Click here to learn more.

Cancer Areas of Interest: OECD Health Statistics.

Data access: publicly available. Click here to access. Data can be downloaded in the formats XLS and CSV.

(To access Cancer Incidence data, click the link, then go to the "Health" section, click on "Health status" then click in "Cancer");

(To access Cancer Mortality data, click the link, then go to the "Health" section, click on "Health status" then click in "Causes of mortality" and choose the cause of death)

Contact information: Click here to access.