Database: NORDCAN (European Union)

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Primary purpose: To provide a freely accessible database of comparable cancer statistics for the Nordic countries.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: The Association of the Nordic Cancer Registries (ANCR).

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 [1]; [2].

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: C00-D48: All neoplasms [3].

Data access: publicly available. You can visualize the data using factsheets or interactive visualization tools [[4]].

Contact information: Information [5].