Database: NORDCAN (European Union)
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Sponsor, manager or home institution: The Association of the Nordic Cancer Registries (ANCR).
Primary purpose: To provide a freely accessible database of comparable cancer statistics for the Nordic countries.
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.
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: All.
Data access: Publicly available [1].
Contact information: Information [2].
