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. 2022 Sep 20;22:1176. doi: 10.1186/s12913-022-08549-3

Table 2.

Inclusion criteria

GCCR (registered new cases; identifiable patients) Statutory health insurance companies (billing data for the matched cancer cases and a comparison group)
Inclusion criteria

- Date of birth from 1.1.1976;

- Survivors until 31.12.2016;

- Year of diagnosis from 1991 (registration in unified Germany);

- ICCC-3 coded diagnoses;

- Residence in Germany at the time of diagnosis and not living abroad on 31.12.2016;

- Year of diagnosis 1991 to 2008: age at the time of diagnosis

under 15 years;

- From the year of diagnosis 2009: age at the time of diagnosis

under 18 years

- Date of birth from 1.1.1976

- All insured persons who are alive on day of data extraction (30.09.2022) and those who died in the period between 1.1.2017 and the data extraction ( 30.09.2022) 

- Permanent residence in Germany for the period of data delivery