Database: ECIR - European Cancer Inequalities Registry (European Union)

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Primary purpose: To gather robust data on cancer prevention and care, enabling the identification of disparities and inequalities among EU Member States and regions as part of Europe's Beating Cancer Plan.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: European Commission.

Type of information: Inequality dimensions: country, sex, year, education, income, level of urbanisation, age, disability(ies), and employment status. Indicators: cancer incidence, cancer mortality, potential years of life lost, the total cost of cancer, diagnoses and treatments, childhood cancer, quality of life, alcohol consumption frequency, obesity, physical inactivity, fruits and vegetables consumption, smoking/passive smoking, breast, cervical and colorectal cancer screening and other environmental indicators [1]. Also, it is possible to check out maps and graphs that present indicators related to cancer and country cancer profiles [2], analytical reports [3] and cancer inequalities factsheets [4].

Source of Information: The source varies according to the indicators. More information [5].

Data level: european level and national level.

Number of Records: unknown.

Date range: 2011-onwards.

Cancer Areas of Interest: C00-C97: All cancer types [6].

Data access: publicly available [7].

Contact information: Information [8].