Database: Slovenian Cancer Registry (Slovenia)

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Type of database: registry.

Primary purpose: To provide comprehensive historical and ongoing data on cancer incidence, prevalence, mortality, and survival in Slovenia, serving as a critical resource for epidemiological and oncological research and evaluating the effectiveness of cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and care, as well as for planning necessary resources for cancer control.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Institute of Oncology Ljubljana.

Type of information: longitudinal. cancer incidence; cancer survival; region; cancer prevalence; age; diagnosis; tumor staging; causes of death; tumor histology; sex; Cancer comparisons with Europe; Cancer mortality; number of patients that received cancer treatment. Data dictionary was not found. For more data information click here to learn more.

Available type of information: cancer incidence; region; cancer prevalence; age; diagnosis; cancer survival; sex; Cancer comparisons with Europe; Cancer mortality; number of patients that received cancer treatment. Click here to learn more.

Source of Information: The main sources of data are notifications of cancer, gathered from all hospitals and diagnostic centres in Slovenia. Source for mortality is the National Institute of Public Health.

Data level: patient level.

Available data level: national level.

Number of Records: Reports with the number of cancers for each incidence year, click here to access.

Date range: From 1950 onwards.

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

Data access: partially publicly available. Click here to access. For reports information click here to access. Data can be downloaded in the PDF format. Data has access costs. Instructions to request data for restricted content click here to access.

Contact information: Click here to access.