Database: Finnish Cancer Registry (Finland)

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Type of database: registry.

Primary purpose: Assess the causes and impacts of cancer burden and the effectiveness of cancer screening programmes in the population.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Cancer Society of Finland.

Type of information: longitudinal. sex; age; diagnosis; tumour staging; tumour histology; primary tumour localization; cancer survival; hospital location; region; screening; year.

Data Dictionary: Finnish Cancer Registry.

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Available type of information: cancer incidence, number of deaths, risk of cancer, sex, place of residence, type of cancer, year, age, cancer prevalence; cancer survival. Click here to learn more.

Source of Information: Health organizations provide information on every case or strong suspicion of cancer detected in Finland to the Cancer Registry of the National Institute for Health and Welfare, which is maintained by the Finnish Cancer Society.

Data level: patient level.

Available data level: regional level.

Number of Records: unknown.

Date range: 1953 onwards.

Cancer areas of interest: C00-D48: All neoplasms. Click here to learn more. Full list of cancer types:

Cancer Areas of Interest: Finnish Cancer Registry.

Data access: partially publicly available. Click here to access. Data can be downloaded in the formats XLSX; CSV and PNG. Data requires a grant proposal to be accessed. Data has access costs. Instructions to request data for restricted content click here to access.

Contact information: Click here to access.