High quality secondary care data
DATA-CAN is making high quality datasets available to cancer researchers. Please fin dadditional information about our data below, and via the Health Data Research Innovation Gateway.
Our data services are helping to provide cancer researchers and practitioners with high quality health data that can improve patient outcomes and help innovate health services.
- Demographics: Information about the characteristics of people using NHS Lothian hospitals or facilities.
- Diagnosis: pathology, staging, primary and secondary cancers
- Localised Treatment Details: surgeries, radiotherapy
- Systemic Therapy Details: chemotherapy, immunological and hormonal treatments, prescriptions
- Biomarkers and lab results
- Outcomes and Follow-up (IDFS, OS, recurrences etc)
- Healthcare utilisation (inpatient, outpatient,admissions and discharges)
- Deprivation scores (IMD/SIMD)
Some of our data centres have access to primary care data and costings.