Prostate cancer: key data sources

Scottish Cancer Registry - incidence data

The Scottish Cancer Registry has been collecting population-based information on cancer since 1958. Details available for each case include personal, demographic and diagnosis information (site, histology, behaviour, histological confirmation, date and hospital of diagnosis). For further information on the Scottish Cancer Registry see the Overview of key data sources section.

General Register Office for Scotland (GROS) - mortality data

The GROS is responsible for the registration of deaths in Scotland and all deaths must be recorded in the deaths register. The register records, amongst other things, the cause, time, date and place of death. For further information on the mortality data collected by the GROS see the Overview of key data sources section.

International datasets

The EUCAN database includes comparisons of incidence, mortality and prevalence of cancer across the European Union. The degree of detail and quality of data vary considerably across countries, and some of the information is based on samples rather than national populations. For this reason, selected countries have been included in the analyses shown on this web site. The EUCAN database presents UK, not Scotland-level information, so comparative information must be obtained from the prostate cancer area of the ISD Scotland web site.

This information is also available globally on the GLOBOCAN database.

Comparisons of survival from cancer across Europe are available from the EUROCARE web site along with background papers discussing the validity and comparability of these estimates.

Coding

Prostate cancer is coded according to the International Coding of Disease Classification (ICD):

• ICD version9 code : 185 (from 1979-1996 for incidence, and 1979-1999 for mortality)
• ICD version10 code : C61 (from 1997 onwards for incidence, and from 2000 for  mortality).