Database: Cancer Screening Monitoring (Portugal)

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Type of database: registry.

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: longitudinal. screening and number of patients by medical procedures, region, year, number of deaths, causes of death, diagnosis. Click here to learn more.

Source of information: Forms filled out by the regional Health Administrations and the Autonomous Regions of Portugal.

Data level: national level and regional level.

Number of records: unknown.

Date range: The project occurs since 1990. Regional and national levels data is available from 2014 onwards.

Cancer areas of interest: C15-C26: Digestive system cancers; C50: Breast cancer and C51-C58: Female genitalia cancer. Click here to learn more.

Data access: publicly available. Tables and maps: Click here to access; Monitoring reports (2017 onwards): click here to access; Monitoring reports (2015): click here to access. Data can be downloaded in the formats JSON, XLSX and CSV.

Contact information: Click here to access.

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