National Cancer Registration And Analysis Service (NCRAS). (2019). Cancer Registration: Cancer Incidence in England (1971-2016) [Data set]. Public Health England. https://doi.org/10.25503/10.25503/skk4-6x09
• DIAGNOSISYEAR (Calendar year of cancer diagnosis)
• SEX (Coded as 1=Male, 2=Female)
• AGE (Five year age bands 0-4, 5-9, 10-14,....... 90+)
• TUMOUR SITE (3 digit code describing tumour site according to coding system in TUMOUR SITE CODE DESC)
• TUMOUR SITE CODE DESC (Coding system for field TUMOUR SITE. Coding system used is ICD8 for diagnoses 1971-1978, ICD9 for 1979-1994 and ICD10 for 1995-2016)
• MORPHOLOGY (4/5 digit code describing tumour morphology according to coding system in MORPHOLOGY CODE DESC)
• MORPHOLOGY CODE DESC (Coding system for field MORPHOLOGY. Coding system used is MOTNAC for diagnoses 1971-1989, ICD00 for 1990-1994 and ICDO2 for 1995-2016)
• INCIDENCE (Tumour incidence count)
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