Database: Statistik Austria Cancer Registry (Austria)

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Sponsor, manager or home institution: Statistik Austria.

Primary purpose: Provide open access information about cancer incidence.

Type of information: Data Dictionary: Cancer Registry. More information and data dictionaries on this and other datasets can be found on the Search bar by typing "KRE 2020 - Krebsstatistik (Krebsregister)" and opening the file [2].

Available type of information: cancer incidence (by sex, place of residence, age, tumor staging, and tumor histology), cancer prevalence and cancer survival probability of patients [3][4].

Source of Information: Hospitals are obliged to report cancer cases and deaths caused by cancer.

Data level: patient level.

Available data level: national and regional level.

Number of Records: Unknown.

Date Range: 1983 onwards.

Cancer Areas of Interest: Statistik Austria Cancer Registry [5]

Data access: Data is partially publicly available [6][7]. Instructions to request data for restricted content [8].

Contact information: Information [9].