Database: NCZI Cancer Registry (Slovakia)

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Národné centrum zdravotníckych informácií.

Primary purpose: To provide comprehensive and accurate information on the occurrence of oncological diseases in a defined population, enabling the evaluation and control of the impact of oncology in the community and informing public health priorities and cancer control activities.

Type of information: No data dictionary was found for this database.

Available type of information: Estimated cancer incidence and incidence indicators according to diagnosis; sex; year; age group; region and tumor staging [1].

Source of Information: Data reported by relevant intelligence units (SJ) and healthcare providers (PZS) who are obligated to report patients with malignant tumors.

Data level: patient level.

Available data level: regional level.

Number of Records: unknown.

Date Range: 1997 2012.

Cancer Areas of Interest: malignant tumors and carcinomas in situ (C00-C96, D00-D09); Lips, oral cavity and pharynx (C00 – C14); digestive organs (C15 – C26); Respiratory and intrathoracic organs (C30 – C39); Bones and articular cartilage (C40 – C41); Melanoma and other skin cancers (C43 – C44); Mesothelium and soft tissue (C45 – C49); Breast (C50); Female genital organs (C51 – C58); Male genitalia (C60 – C63); Urinary system (C64 – C68); Eye, brain and other parts of the CNS (C69 – C72); Thyroid and other endocrine glands (C73-C75); Imprecisely determined, secondary and non-specific locations (C76 – C80); Lymphatic, hematopoietic and related tissue (C81 – C96); Carcinomas in situ (D00 – D09).

Data access: partially publicly available [2]. Instructions to request data for restricted content [3].

Contact information: Information [4].