Database: Death registry (CepiDC) (France)

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Primary purpose: A complete registry of medical causes of death in France.

Sponsor, manager, or home institution: Center for Epidemiology on the Medical Causes of Death (CépiDC) [1].

Data level: Patient level. Open data is available at the Regional and National level.

Collected information: Complete database: Patient name, address, date of birth, sex, date and time of death, medical component that includes the sequence of morbid events that led to death from the immediate cause to the underlying cause of death as well as the comorbidities, factors or physiological conditions that contributed to the death but not directly involved in the sequence of events described before. Open database: Sex, age, and cause of death.

Number of records: Unknown.

Data source: Death certificates issued in the country.

Cancer areas of interest: Malignant tumor of the lip, malignant tumor oral cavity and pharynx; malignant tumor of the esophagus; of the stomach; malignant colon tumor; malignant tumor of the rectum and anus; malignant neoplasm of the liver and intrahepatic bile ducts; malignant tumor of the pancreas; malignant tumor of the larynx, trachea, bronchi, and lung; malignant melanoma of the skin; malignant breast tumor; malignant tumor of the cervix; malignant tumor of other parts of the uterus; malignant tumor of the ovary; malignant tumor of the prostate; kidney malignancy; malignant bladder tumor; malignant neoplasm of lymphatic and hematopoietic tissues; other malignant tumors; other tumors.

Data access: Partially publicly available [2]. Instructions to request data for restricted content [3].

Contact information: Information [4].