Database: Sotkanet Indicator Bank (Finland)

Primary purpose: Offer information about key population welfare and health data.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Finnish Institute of Health and Welfare.

Type of information: The database contains the following indicators related to cancer: Cancer index, age-standardized info ind. 245 Cancer index, not age-standardized; Entitled to special refunds on medicines for cancer 31.12., age-standardized population share(%); Entitled to special refunds on medicines for cancer 31.12., as % of total population; Five-year relative survival rate of bowel cancer patients, %; Five-year relative survival rate of breast cancer patients, %; Five-year relative survival rate of cervical cancer patients, %; Proportion of women invited to breast cancer screening (mammography) who attended, %; Proportion of women invited to cervical cancer screening (smear test) who attended, %.

Source of Information: Cancer statistics (Finnish Cancer Registry), National Health Index (Kela and THL) and Morbidity index (THL). The source for the individual indicator can be found by clicking on "info ind xxxx", next to the name of each indicator.

Data level: Hospital level.

Number of Records: Unknown.

Date Range: 1990 onwards.

Cancer Areas of Interest: Unknown.

Data access: Publicly available [1].

Contact information: Contact information [2].