Database: VSD Cancer Registry (Latvia)

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Type of database: registry.

Primary purpose: Provide information about cancer incidence and epidemiology.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Slimību Profilakses un Kontroles Centrs (SPKC).

Type of information: longitudinal. Data dictionary has not been found. Provides information about malignant tumour cases in the oncology patient register, including details on diagnosis, cancer incidence, population-based rates, geographical distribution, age groups, disease stages, first-year mortality, and observed 5-year survival rates.

Available type of information: Number of registered cancer by region, diagnosis, administrative territory, sex, age group, location, and stage at time of diagnosis, causes of death, among other metrics. More information about the variables: click here to learn more.

Source of information: Data collected from hospital data sources, population registries, cause of death databases, and registers for other diseases that contain oncological data.

Data level: patient level.

Available data level: Administrative territory, regional level and national level.

Number of records: unknown.

Date range: 2010 to 2019.

Cancer areas of interest: C00-C97: All cancer types. Click here to learn more

Data access: partially publicly available: click here to access. Data can be downloaded in the formats XLSX; CSV; PX; JSON; XML; HTM and TXT. Data requires a grant proposal to be accessed. Instructions to request data for restricted content: click here to learn more.

Contact information: Click here to learn more.