Database: National Cancer Registry (Ireland)

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Sponsor, manager or home institution: National Cancer Registry of Ireland.

Primary purpose: Collect and disseminate cancer incidence statistics.

Type of Information: Data Dictionary: National Cancer Registry. Data dictionary information [1].

Available type of information: cancer incidence and cancer survival by year, age, stage, diagnosis, sex, county, region and childhood cancer.

Source of Information: Data is collected from hospital medical records by nurses acting as hospital liaisons. Death information is collected using death certificates.

Data level: patient level.

Available data level: regional level and national level.

Number of Records: unknown.

Date Range: 1994 onwards.

Cancer Areas of Interest: National Cancer Registry.

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

Contact information: Information [4].