Database: VSD Cancer Registry (Latvia)
Sponsor, manager or home institution: Slimību Profilakses un Kontroles Centrs (SPKC)
Primary purpose: Provide information about cancer incidence and epidemiology.
Available type of information: Number of registered cancer by region, administrative territory, gender, 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 and national level.
Number of Records: Unknown.
Date Range: 2010 to 2019.
Cancer Areas of Interest: Malignant tumors (C00-C97); Lips, oral cavity, pharynx oropharynx (C00-C10); Oesophagus (C15); Stomach (C16); Colon (C18); Colorectal part (C18-C21); Sigmoid-rectal junction, rectum (C19-C20); Anus (anus) and anal canal (canalis analis) (C21); Liver and intrahepatic bile ducts (C22); Pancreas (C25); Larynx (C32); Bronchi and lungs (C34); Bones, articular cartilage (C40-C41); Cutaneous melanoma (C43); Other malignant neoplasms of the skin (C44); Chest (C50); Female external genitalia, vagina (C51-C52); Cervix uteri (C53); Body of uterus (C54-C55); Ovaries (C56); Prostate (C61); Testis (C62); Kidney (C64); Bladder (C67); Brain (C71); Thyroid (C73); Imprecisely marked, secondary and non-localized (C76-C80); Hodgkin lymphoma (C81); Lymphoid, haematopoietic and related tissues (C81-C96); Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (C82-C85); Multiple myeloma and malignant plasma cell neoplasms (C90); Lymphoid leukaemia (C91); Myeloid leukaemia (C92); Acute myeloblastic leukaemia (C92.0); Chronic myelogenous leukaemia (C92.1). Diagnoses staged according to TNM classification (C00-C69, C73-C80); Meninges, brain, cranial nerves and other parts of the central nervous system (C70-C72).
Data access: Partially publicly available [2].
Contact information: Information [3].
