Database: Andmebaas Cancer Screening Registry (Estonia)
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Type of database: registry.
Primary purpose: The register collects and analyzes personalized data about the target group of breast, cervical and colon cancer screenings.
Sponsor, manager or home institution: The Health Statistics and Health Research Database; The National Institute for Health Development.
Type of information: longitudinal. screening, sex, age, place of residence, year. Data dictionary could not be found for this database. Data of people belonging to the target group of screening studies; Screened research participation data and the results of the basic and additional studies performed, click here to learn more.
Available type of information: screening, sex, age, place of residence, year. Click here to access.
Source of Information: The register collects data from health service providers through electronic mass requests through the health information system. Data is also inherited from the population register, the cause of death register, the cancer register and the health insurance data set of the health insurance fund via the X-tee data exchange layer.
Data level: patient level.
Available data level: regional level.
Number of Records: unknown.
Date range: 2015 onwards.
Cancer areas of interest: C15-C26: Digestive system cancers, C50: Breast cancer, and C51-C58: Female genitalia cancer. Click here to learn more.
Data access: partially publicly available. Click here to access, go to "Morbidity" > "Cancer screening programmes". Data can be downloaded in the formats XLSX; CSV; PX; XML; JPG and JSON. Instructions to request data for restricted content click here to access.
Contact information: Click here to access.
