Data Dictionary: Socialstyrelsen Cancer Registry
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| Age of patient at diagnosis |
| Year of diagnosis |
| Indicator of malignant or benign tumor based on morphology |
| Basis for cause of death statement, either clinical or forensic autopsy |
| Date diagnosis was established |
| Type of examination that formed basis of diagnosis |
| Date patient died, information from cause of death register |
| Tumor spread at time of diagnosis for gynecological tumors |
| Patient's date of birth |
| Patient's place of registration at time of diagnosis, forwarded to January 1 of last year |
| Error code for projecting patient's place of registration |
| Location of tumor according to ICD-7 codes for leukemias and lymphomas according to ICD-8 during entire period (1958-) |
| Tumor location according to ICD-9 |
| Tumor location according to ICD-O/2 (with some elements of ICD-10) |
| Tumor location according to ICD-O/3 |
| Information taken from A-form that was basis for hospital and diagnosis coding (may be blank) |
| Clinic where patient's diagnosis was established |
| Patient's gender |
| Patient's place of registration at time of diagnosis |
| Tumor spread at time of diagnosis, distant metastases |
| Tumor spread at time of diagnosis, lymph nodes |
| Tumor identified at autopsy |
| Histopathological diagnosis of tumor according to C24.1 |
| Diagnostic pathology and cytology department |
| Patient's social security number |
| Variable showing quality of personal identification number (PNR), created using standard macro checking |
| Number of histopathological preparation including year |
| Healthcare region |
| Side indication for paired organs |
| Healthcare facility where diagnosis was established |
| Morphological diagnosis of tumor according to ICD-O/3 |
| Morphological diagnosis of tumor according to ICD-O/2 |
| Tumor spread at time of diagnosis, tumor size |
| Week when move was announced until 1997 (Statistics Sweden has translated year and week into the first day of the respective week. From 1998, the date refers to the day person declared move to Tax Authority) |
| Research that was the basis for TNM, indicated as pathological if any of T, N, or M is based on morphological examination |
| Clinical if only clinical examination was the basis and morphological examination is missing |
| Tumor number in chronological order for all reportable tumors if the patient was diagnosed with multiple tumors |
| Tumor numbers in chronological order for malignant tumors only if the patient was diagnosed with multiple tumors |
| Illness/injury that started a chain of events leading to death |
