Database: VSD Cancer Registry (Latvia)

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Primary purpose: Provide information about cancer incidence and epidemiology.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Slimību Profilakses un Kontroles Centrs (SPKC).

Type of information: Provides information about malignant tumor cases in the oncology patient register, including details on diagnoses, population-based rates, geographical distribution, age groups, disease stages, first-year mortality, and observed 5-year survival rates.

Available type of information: Number of registered cancer by region, diagnosis, administrative territory, sex, age group, location, and stage at time of diagnosis, among other metrics. More information about the variables [1].

Source of information: Data collected from hospital data sources, population registries, cause of death databases, and registers for other diseases that contain oncological data.

Data level: patient level.

Available data level: Administrative territory, regional level and national level.

Number of records: unknown.

Date Range: 2010 to 2019.

Cancer Areas of Interest: malignant neoplasms (C00-C97).

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

Contact information: Information [4].