Database: NORDCAN (European Union)
From Beacon
Sponsor, manager or home institution: The Association of the Nordic Cancer Registries (ANCR).
Primary purpose: To provide a freely accessible database of comparable cancer statistics for the Nordic countries.
Type of information: Number of new cancer cases (incidence); Cancer mortality; Number of individuals living with a cancer diagnosis (prevalence); cancer survival; age; Country; year; sex.
Source of Information: The sources vary from each national cancer registry and cause of death registry.
Data level: national level.
Number of Records: unknown.
Date Range: 1943 onwards.
Cancer Areas of Interest: neoplasms (C00-D48).
Data access: publicly available [1].
Contact information: Information [2].
