Database: Belgian Cancer Registry (Belgium)

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Belgian Cancer Registry.

Primary purpose: Population-based cancer registry collecting and processing data from patients in Belgium, monitoring cancer statistics and making data accessible.

Type of information: Information collected on cancer diagnoses at patient level.

Available type of information: Incidence; Count, crude rate per 100,000 persons per year; European Standardized Rate (ESR) per 100,000 persons per year; World Standardized Rate (WSR); Revised European Standardized Rate (RESR); Type of cancer; Gender; Age; Region; Year; Prevalence; Survival: observed survival and relative survival; Age at time of diagnosis; Stage at time of diagnosis. [1].

Source of Information: Healthcare facilities that have oncology care programs (including pediatric hemato-oncology) and provide services for pathological anatomy are required by law to collaborate with cancer registration.

Data level: Patient level.

Available data level: National and regional level.

Number of Records: All new diagnoses in Belgium of malignant neoplasms, in situ neoplasms/high grade dysplasia, borderline tumours of the central nervous system, ovary and urinary system and benign tumours of the central nervous system.

Date Range: From 2004 onwards on a national level.

Cancer Areas of Interest: All new diagnoses of malignant neoplasms, in situ neoplasms/tumours with high grade dysplasia, borderline tumours of the central nervous system, ovary and urinary system and benign tumours of the central nervous system.

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

Contact information: Information [4].