Cancer surveillance and epidemiology in the United States and Puerto Rico, 1973-1977

Description

This dataset, also known as Surveillance, Epidemiolgoy, and End Results (SEER), contains demographics and information on cancer which was gathered from hospitals, clinics, private laboratories, private practitioners, nursing/ convalescent homes, autopsies, and death certificates. The data contain information on diagnosis, primary site, histologic type, laterality, multiplicity within primary site at first episode, and diagnostic confirmation of cancer.