Overview
National Cancer Institute’s Cancer registry is a nationwide and population-based cancer registry, which covers all territory of Lithuania and it collects information about all new cancer cases (ICD-10-AM codes: C00-C96, D00-D09, D32-D33, D39.1, D42-D43, D45-D47) of all cancer patients.
The main task of the Cancer Registry is to guarantee as complete and reliable registration of incident cancer cases as possible.
In 1984 the Lithuanian Cancer Registry was established at the National Cancer Institute by the Order of the Minister of Health. The population-based Cancer Registry was set up in 1990.
From first of January 2017 Cancer Registry has had the legal basis for all information from all hospitals in Lithuania, for information from pathological centers, for periodical linkages with death registry and with Central Population Registry for information about vital status or date of emigration.
Demographics
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Contact
Santariskių str. 1, LT-08660, Vilnius, Lithuania