Database: Croatian National Cancer Registry (Croatia)

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Type of database: registry.

Primary purpose: Register new cancer cases and provide data on incidence, prevalence, and survival in Croatia.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Croatian Institute of Public Health (HZJZ).

Type of information: longitudinal. cancer incidence; number of deaths; primary tumor localization; diagnosis; sex; age; year; place of residence. Data dictionary was not found.

Available type of information: cancer incidence (number of new cases, percentage, crude incidence rate, standardized world incidence rate, cumulative rate from 0 - 74 years), number of deaths, primary tumor localization, diagnosis, sex, age, year, place of residence. Click here to learn more.

Source of Information: Hospital report forms, primary care report forms, pathology and cytology reports, and death certificates. Additional data sources include hospital discharge diagnoses and outpatient visit diagnoses.

Data level: patient level.

Available data level: regional level.

Number of Records: > 500,000 cancer incidence registries.

Date range: 1959 onwards.

Cancer Areas of Interest: C00-D48: All neoplasms. All cancers except non-melanoma skin cancer (C44), including carcinoma in situ and benign and borderline CNS tumors, click here to learn more.

Data access: partially publicly available. Click here to access. Data can be downloaded in the formats XLSX and PDF. Data requires a grant proposal to be accessed. Instructions to request data for restricted content click here to access.

Contact information: Click here to access.