Database: National Cancer Registry (Ireland)

Sponsor, manager or home institution: National Cancer Registry of Ireland.

Primary purpose: Collect and disseminate cancer incidence statistics.

Type of Information: Address 1; Address 2; Address 3; Address 4; Address 5; Address Id; Admission Type; Age At Incidence; Also Known As; Approximate Treatment Date; Care of Address; Clinical M; Clinical N; Clinical T; Clinical Tumour Size; Closed Date; Comment Date; Comment Id; Consultant; County Id; Date of Birth; Date of Death; Date of Incidence; Date of Metastasis; Date of Notification; Date of Recurrence; Date of Treatment; Date of Tumour Marker; Do Not Contact; Firstname; Firstname 2; Grade; Histology Lab Number; Hospital of Source of Notification; Hospital of Treatment; House Name; House Number; ICD-10-O-3; Incidence Report Ready; Maiden Name; Main Address; Management Id; Marker Id; Marker Type; Marker Value; Medical Oncology Code; Medical Oncology Comment; Medical Records Number; Metastasis Id; Metastasis Topography; Method Of Diagnosis; Method Of Presentation; Morphology Code ICD-O3; Morphology Code ICD-O3 Group; Morphology Description Id; Mortality Status; Neo Adjuvant; Node Evaluation; Nodes Positive; Nodes Sampled; Notes; Pathological M; Pathological N; Pathological T; Pathological Tumour Size; Pathology Lab Id; Pathology Subtext; Patient Cervical Check Report Status; Patient Date of Cervical Check Report; Patient Id; Postcode; PPS Number; Procedure Category; Procedure Group; Purpose of Treatment; Sex; Side; Source Id; Source Of Notification Id; Staging Site Topography; Surname; Treatment Coding System; Treatment Id; Treatment Site Topography; Tumour Cervical Check Report Status; Tumour Date of Cervical Check Report; Tumour Death Certificate Only; Tumour Id; Tumour Status; Tumour Survival; Tumour Topography. Data dictionary information [1].

Available type of information: Cancer incidence and survival by year, age, stage, type of cancer, sex, county, region and childhood cancer.

Source of Information: Data is collected from hospital medical records by nurses acting as hospital liaisons. Death information is collected using death certificates.

Data level: Patient level.

Available data level: Regional and national level.

Number of Records: Unknown.

Date Range: 1994 onwards.

Cancer Areas of Interest: Cancer Areas of Interest: National Cancer Registry.

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

Contact information: Information [4].