Lithuania
Cancer Centers
Healthcare System
Administrative or Claims Data
Database: Cancer Prevention Statistics
Primary purpose: Provide reliable information about health in Lithuania.
Sponsor, manager or home institution: State Data Agency of Lithuania.
Type of information:
- Number of breast cancer and cervical cancer screenings: by year;
- Proportion of women who had mammography test: by period of time since examination, age, income, employment status, educational level, region of residence, and year;
- Proportion of women who had a cervical smear test: by period of time since examination, age, income, employment status, educational level, region of residence, and year;
- Cigarette smoking habits of the population: by frequency of smoking, gender, age, income, employment status, educational level, region of residence and year;
- Population smoking habits of tobacco products: by frequency of smoking, gender, age, income, employment status, educational level, region of residence and year;
- Number of cigarettes smoked daily by the smoking population: by number of cigarettes, gender, age, income, employment status, educational level, region of residence and year;
- Proportion of the population who consulted a specialist during the last 12 months: by specialization (includes oncologist), gender, age, income, employment status, educational level, region of residence and year.
Source of information: Health Interview Survey, Population Register of State Enterprise Centre of Registers and the State Social Insurance Fund Board under the Ministry of Social Security and Labour (SODRA).
Data level: Regional level (open access) and Patient level (restricted access).
Number of Records: Comprises all permanent residents of the Republic of Lithuania, aged 15 years or older, living in private households. In 2019, 70.3% of this population group answered the survey.
Date range: 2005 onwards (cancer screenings, popuation smoking habits) and 2014 onwards (mammography and cervical smear tests, cigarrette smoking habit, and Number of cigarettes smoked daily).
Cancer Areas of Interest: Breast cancer, cervical cancer, and respiratory tract cancer.
Data access: Regional level data is available here. To request access to patient level data, follow the instructions presented here.
Information/contact for data request: Contact information.
Database: Cancer Procedures
Primary purpose: Register and surveil the number of performed procedures.
Sponsor, manager or home institution: Institute of Hygiene (HI).
Type of information:
- Number of surgical operations and procedures performed in hospitals: crude number and number per 100 000 inhabitants by type of surgical procedure - regarding cancer, it includes prostatectomy and mastectomy -, type of patient - inpatient or day patient -, and year;
- Hospital day cases : crude number and number per 100 000 inhabitants by type of diagnose - includes neoplasms - age, gender, and year;
- Hospital days for inpatient cases (excluding inpatient nursing and rehabilitation cases in sanatoriums): by type of diagnose - includes neoplasms - age, gender, and year;
- Number of discharges (excluding inpatient nursing and rehabilitation cases in sanatoriums): crude number and number per 100 000 inhabitants by type of diagnose - includes neoplasms - age, gender, and year;
- Inpatient average length of stay (excluding inpatient nursing and rehabilitation cases in sanatoriums): by type of diagnose - includes neoplasms - age, gender, and year;
Source of information: Compulsory Health Insurance Fund Information System (CHIF IS).
Data level: National level (open access) and Patient level (restricted access).
Number of Records: Contains information regarding the whole territory of Lithuania.
Date range: 2010 onwards (number of surgical operations) and 2001 onwards (all the other indicators).
Cancer Areas of Interest: Number of surgical operations comprises breast cancer and prostate cancer. The other indicators do not specify the types of cancer comprised.
Data access: National level data is available here. To request access to patient level data, follow the instructions presented here.
Information/contact for data request: Contact information.
Database: Disability caused by cancer
Primary purpose: Provide statistical information about people whose work capacity or life quality has been afected by illness.
Sponsor, manager or home institution: State Data Agency of Lithuania.
Type of information:
- Number of persons of working age with a reduced level of capacity for work established for the first time: by type of disease (includes neoplasm), year, gender, capacity level (per cent), age (over 18 years), and region.
- Number of children recognised as disabled for the first time: by type of disease (includes neoplasm), year, gender, capacity level (per cent), age (under 18 years), and region.
Source of information: Data from the Disability and Working Capacity Assessment Office at the Ministry of Social Security and Labour.
Data level: Regional level (open access) and Patient level (restricted access).
Number of Records: Unknown.
Date range: 2001 onwards.
Cancer Areas of Interest: Unknown.
Data access: Regional level data is available here. To request access for patient level data, follow the instructions presented here.
Information/contact for data request: Contact information.
Registries
Database: Cancer Registry
Primary purpose: Produce a complete registration of cancer cases and cancer mortality across Lithuania.
Sponsor, manager or home institution: National Cancer Institute.
Type of information: Patient level information = cancer incidence, mortality, prevalence and survival. Patient information (full name, date of birth, personal identification number, place of residence), and primary tumor information (date of diagnosis, ICD10 code of primary site and topography, stage, pathological TNM, clinical TNM, ICD-O-3 code of morphology, behavior, most valid basis of diagnosis - has cancer histological verification or not -, date source and name of the doctor who has diagnosed cancer).
National level information = Incidence rate (per 100,000 inhabitants), standardized incidence rate for the European population and for the world population (per 100,000 inhabitants), survival rate, number of deaths, mortality rate. All indicators are presented according to gender, age, and tumor location.
Number of tumor cases (in number and percentage) according to age, gender, location, and the TNM stage of the tumor.
Number of survivors (after 1, 5, and 10 years from diagnosis) and relative survival (in %, after 1 and 5 years from diagnosis) according to gender, tumor location, and time since diagnosis .
Source of information: The register is continuouslly updated with reports about new cancer cases sent by primary, secondary and tertiary health care institutions from across the country.
Data level: National level (open access) and patient level (restricted access).
Number of Records: Contains information regarding the whole territory of Lithuania. Contains more than 500,000 reports and, each year, more than 20,000 new cancer cases are added to the registry.
Date range: Regarding patient level data, there is data about diagnosed cancer cases from 1978 onwards and data about cancer mortality from 1990 onwards. National level data is available from 2006 onwards.
Cancer Areas of Interest: C00-C96, melanomas (D03), breast (D05), cervix (D06), bladder (D09.0); tumors of obscure and unknown course: ovaries (D39.1), nervous system (D42-43), lymphatic and hematopoietic tissues (D45-47); benign tumors of the nervous system (D32-33). (ICD-10-AM).
Data access: National level data can be accessed in this website. To request access for patient level data, contact the National Cancer Institute (contact address bellow).
Information/contact for data request: Contact information.
