Database: Belgian Cancer Registry (Belgium)

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Type of Database: registry.

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: longitudinal. age, sex, region, place of residence, hospital location, type of medical activity, year, diagnosis, tumour staging, tumour histology, primary tumour location, medical procedures, cancer survival, cancer incidence, screening .

Data Dictionary: Belgian Cancer Registry.

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Available type of information: cancer incidence, cancer prevalence, cancer survival, number of deaths, and screening by age, sex, region, diagnosis, and tumour staging. Graphs and tables: click here to learn more; Reports: click here to learn more.

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: national level and regional level.

Number of Records: unknown.

Date range: 2004 onwards on a national level, 1999 onwards for Fandlers region.

Cancer areas of interest: C00-D48: All neoplasms. Click here to learn more. See the full list of cancer types here:

Cancer Areas of Interest: Belgian Cancer Registry.

Data access: partially publicly available. Graphs and tables: Click here to access; Publications: Click here to access. Data can be downloaded in the formats PNG, PDF and XLSX. Instructions to request data for restricted content click here to access. Data has access costs.

Contact information: Click here to access.