National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service (NCRAS). (2018). Cancer Registration: Epidemiology of Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (1985-2016) [Data set]. Public Health England. https://doi.org/10.25503/4cvr-f886
• Pseudo_tumourID (Project specific tumour ID)
• Age (aggregated in 3 categories, 0-34, 35-64, 65+)
• Sex (coded as Male and Female)
• ETHNICITY_GROUPED(coded as White, Non-white, non-stated)
• DIAGYEAR_GROUPED (Year of diagnosis aggregated in five year groupings, 1985-1989, 1990-1994, 1995-1999, 2000-2004, 2005-2009, 2010-2014, 2015-2016)
• BASISOFDIAGNOSIS_ONS (Description of whether the tumour was diagnosed by either ‘clinical’, ‘cytology’, ‘histology’, ‘other special test’, ‘unknown’, ‘blank’)
• BASISOFDIAGNOSIS (Description of whether the tumour was diagnosed as ‘clinical’, ‘clinical investigation’, ‘cytology’, ‘death certificate’, ‘histology of metastasis’, ‘histology of primary tumour’, ‘ specific tumour markers’, ‘unknown’, ‘blank’ )
• DCO (Diagnosis of death certificate only coded as N=No, Y=Yes, blank)
• SITE_ICD9 (valid 4-digit code, coded as either 2001, 2002, 2008, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2028, blank)
• SITEICD10O2 (valid 4-digit code, coded in accordance with classification system of The International Classification of Diseases for Oncology)
• GRADE(Grade of tumour, coded as 3, 4, G1, G2, G3, G4, G5, G6, G7, GX, Unknown or blank)
• STAGE_ONS (stage of diagnosis, coded 3, unknown, blank)
• STAGE_BEST (where stage 1 is coded as 1, 1A, 1A2, 1B, 1C, 1E, 1S; stage 2 is coded as 2, 2A, 2A1, 2B, 2E, 2S; stage 3 is coded as 3, 3A, 3B, 3C, 3E, 3S; stage 4 is coded as 4, 4A, 4B, 4C, 4S; unknown or cannot be stage is coded as 4, 4A, 4B, 4C, 4S; unknown or cannot be staged as 0, 6, ?, U, X, blank)
• STAGE_PATH (where stage 1 is coded as 1, 1A, 1B, 1E; stage 2 is coded as 2, 2A, 2B, 2E; stage 3 is coded as 3, 3A, 3B; stage 4 is coded as 4, 4A, 4B; unknown or cannot be staged as 0, 6, ?, X, blank)
• TYPE5 (Histology as recorded by ONS)
• HISTOLOGY_CODED (histology as recorded by NCRAS)
• HISTOLOGYCODEDDESC (description of histology code as recorded by NCRAS)
• QUNIT_12 to 16 (Quintile score [1-5], describing income deprivation where 1= least deprived to 5= most deprived)
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