National Cancer Registration And Analysis Service (NCRAS). (2018). Cancer Registration: Epidemiology of Renal Cancer (1985-2016) [Data set]. Public Health England. https://doi.org/10.25503/9H7X-TY21
• PSEUDO_TUMOURID (Project specific Pseudonymised Tumour ID)
• AGE (aggregated in 3 categories: 0-44, 45-74, 75+)
• GENDER (coded as Male and Female)
• Ethnicity (coded as White, Non-white, Not-stated)
• DIAGYEAR_GROUPED (year of diagnosis aggregated in five year age bands)
• BASIS OF DIAGNOSIS (broken down by clinical, clinical investigation, Cytology, Death Certificate, Histology of a metastasis, Histology of a primary tumour, Specific Tumour markers)
• DCO (Diagnosis of death certificate only coded as N=No, Y=Yes, unknown)
• SITE_ICD9 (valid 4-digit code, coded as 1890, 1891, blank)
• SITE_ ICD10_o2 (cancer site coded as C64, C649, C65)
• GRADE (grade of tumour coded as 1, 2, 3, 4, G1, G2, G3, G4, GX)
• STAGE OF ONS (coded as 1 or blank)
• STAGE_BEST (where stage 1 is coded 1, 1A, 1B,1B1, 1E; stage 2 is coded as 2, 2A, 2B, 2S; stage 3 is coded as 3, 3A, 3B, 3C, 3S; stage 4 is coded as 4, 4A, 4B, 4C, 4S; unknown or cannot be staged is coded as 0, 6, ?, U, X, blanks)
• STAGE_PATH (where stage 1 is coded 1, 1A, 1B, 1S; stage 2 is coded as 2, 2A, 2B; stage 3 is coded as 3, 3A, 3B, 3C; stage 4 is coded as 4, 4B; unknown or cannot be staged is coded as 0, 6, ?, 0A, 0IS, U, X, blanks)
• TYPE 5 (Histology as recorded by ONS
• HISTOLOGY_CODED (histology as recorded by NCRAS)
• HISTOLOGY_CODED_DESC (description of histology code as recorded by NCRAS)
• QUINT 12 TO 16 (Quintile score [1-5], describing income deprivation where 1= least deprived to 5= most deprived)
• DEATHYEAR_GROUP (1985-1989, 1990-1994, [in 5 year age bands], 1995-1999, 2000-2004, 2005-2009, 2010-2014, 2015-2017)
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