Database: Statistik Austria Cancer Registry (Austria)

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Primary purpose: Provide open access information about cancer incidence. Click here to learn more.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Statistik Austria.

Type of information: sex, region, year, age, diagnosis, tumor staging, number of deaths, tumor histology and cancer survival Data Dictionary: Cancer Registry. More information and data dictionaries on this and other datasets can be found on the Search bar by typing "KRE 2020 - Krebsstatistik (Krebsregister)" and opening the file: click here to learn more.

Available type of information: cancer incidence (by sex, place of residence, age, tumor staging, and tumor histology), cancer prevalence and cancer survival probability of patients. Click here to learn more; Click here to learn more.

Source of information: Hospitals are obliged to report cancer cases and deaths caused by cancer.

Data level: patient level.

Available data level: regional level and national level.

Number of records: unknown.

Date range: 1983 onwards.

Cancer areas of interest: C00-C97: All cancer types; D00-D09: Early-stage cancers not yet spread. Full list of cancer types: Statistik Austria Cancer Registry. Click here to learn more

Data access: partially publicly available. Tables: click here to access; Graphs, tables and maps: click here to access. Instructions to request data for restricted content: click here to learn more.

Contact information: Click here to learn more.