Database: Cancer Incidence in Five Continents (European Union)

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Primary purpose: Serves as a comprehensive resource for cancer researchers by compiling essential data on incident cancers from high-quality registries worldwide.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).

Type of information: Cancer incidence by country, sex, 5-year age group, type of cancer and person-years at risk. Description of the data is included with the download of both summarized and complete datasets.

Source of information: Registries from each included country. Click here to learn more.

Data level: national level.

Date range: Each volume has a specific range. The oldest available volume is Volume V from 1987 and the latest is from 2021.

Number of records:

Cancer areas of interest: C00-D48: All neoplasms. Click here to learn more.

Access to information: publicly available. Click here to access. Click here to learn more.

Contact information: Click here to learn more.