Database: NORDCAN (European Union)

Type of Database: registry

Primary purpose: To provide a freely accessible database of comparable cancer statistics for the Nordic countries.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: The Association of the Nordic Cancer Registries (ANCR).

Type of information: longitudinal. Number of new cancer cases (incidence); Cancer mortality; Number of individuals living with a cancer diagnosis (prevalence); cancer survival; age; Country; year; sex. Click here to learn more.

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: C00-D48: All neoplasms. Click here to learn more.

Data access: publicly available. Click here to access. You can visualize the data using factsheets, click here to access or interactive visualization tools click here to access. Data can be downloaded in the formats XLS; CSV and PDF.

Contact information: Click here to access.