Database: Croatian National Cancer Registry (Croatia)

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Primary purpose: Register new cancer cases and provide data on incidence, prevalence, and survival in Croatia.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Croatian Institute of Public Health.

Type of information: cancer incidence (Number of new cases, percentage, crude incidence rate, standardized world incidence rate, cumulative rate from 0 - 74 years), number of deaths, primary tumor localization, type of cancer, sex, age, year, place of residence

For patients: sex, date of birth, age at diagnosis, place of residence, vital status, date of death. For tumors: date of cancer diagnosis, cancer diagnosis (ICD-10 and ICD-O-3), basis of diagnosis, morphological diagnosis (ICD-O-3), stage at diagnosis, grade.

Source of Information: Hospital report forms, primary care report forms, pathology and cytology reports, and death certificates. Additional data sources include hospital discharge diagnoses and outpatient visit diagnoses.

Data level: patient level.

Number of Records: > 500,000 cancer incidence diagnoses.

Date Range: 1959 onwards [1].

Cancer Areas of Interest: All cancers except non-melanoma skin cancer (C44), including carcinoma in situ and benign and borderline CNS tumors [2].

Data access: partially publicly available [3]. Instructions to request data for restricted content [4].

Contact information: Information [5].