Database: Finnish Cancer Registry (Finland)
Primary purpose: Assess the causes and impacts of cancer burden and the effectiveness of cancer screening programmes in the population.
Sponsor, manager or home institution: Cancer Society of Finland.
Type of information: Data on cancer screenings, cancer incidence, deaths due to cancer, risk of developing cancer, persons alive with past diagnosis, prognosis of cancer patients.
Data Dictionary: Finnish Cancer Registry
Data Dictionary: Cervical Cancer Screening
Data Dictionary: Breast Cancer Screening
More information about the data is contained in the database [1].
Available type of information: Cancer incidence, deaths due to cancer, risk of developing cancer, persons alive with past diagnosis, prognosis of cancer patients; sorted by sex, region, cancer site, year, and values.
Source of Information: Health organizations provide information on every case or strong suspicion of cancer detected in Finland to the Cancer Registry of the National Institute for Health and Welfare, which is maintained by the Finnish Cancer Society.
Data level: Patient level.
Available data level: Regional level.
Number of Records: Unknown.
Date Range: 1953 onwards.
Cancer Areas of Interest: Cancer Areas of Interest: Finnish Cancer Registry.
Data access: Partially publicly available [2]. Instructions to request data for restricted content [3].
Contact information: Information [4].
