Database: Cancer Incidence in Five Continents (European Union)

Type of Database: registry

Primary purpose: Serves as a comprehensive resource for cancer researchers by compiling essential data on incident cancers from high-quality registries worldwide.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).

Type of information: longitudinal. cancer incidence; region; sex; age; diagnosis; risk of cancer and year. Description of the data is included with the download of both summarized and complete datasets.

Source of information: Registries from each included country. Click here to learn more.

Data level: national level.

Date range: Each volume has a specific range. The oldest available volume is Volume V from 1987 and the latest is from 2021.

Number of records: unknown.

Cancer areas of interest: C00-D48: All neoplasms. Click here to learn more.

Access to information: publicly available. Click here to access. Data can be downloaded in the formats PDF; CVS and TXT. Click here to learn more.

Contact information: Click here to learn more.