Description

The national systemic anti-cancer therapies (SACT) data dictionary gives an overview of the available data fields. This document also includes important information about data quality and other useful information to consider when working with the data.

The data dictionary contains a list of variables:

  • in the national SACT dataset with information about what they are and how suitable they are for use in analysis
  • in the national SACT dataset with the purpose of data management
  • currently under development

Find out more about SACT.

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Last updated: 04 July 2025