Acknowledgements
BRIAN has been made possible thanks to volunteers, organisations and open source software. In particular, we would like to thank the individuals and organisations listed below.
Data sources
This project involves data derived from patient-level information collected by the NHS, as part of the care and support of cancer patients. The data is collated, maintained and quality assured by the National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service, which is part of Public Health England (PHE). Access to the data was facilitated by the PHE Office for Data Release.
ICD-10 codes, terms and text used by permission of WHO, from: International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision (ICD-10). Vols 1-3. Geneva, World Health Organization, 1992-2016 Abbreviated form: ICD-10 codes, terms and text © World Health Organization, 1992-2016
The OPCS Classification of Interventions and Procedures, codes, terms and text is Crown copyright (2016) published by Health and Social Care Information Centre, also know as NHS Digital and licensed under the Open Government Licence available at www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/open-government-licence.htm.
The list of registered medical practitioners that appears in BRIAN is sourced from the General Medical Council (GMC)’s LRMP Product. This data has been used under licence. Whilst The Brain Tumour Charity endeavours to use the latest practicable version of the LRMP Product, the definitive version is available from the GMC on its website www.gmc-uk.org.
We would like to acknowledge the Secure Anonymised Information Linkage (SAIL) Databank and all the data providers who make anonymised data available for research through SAIL, in particular, the Office for National Statistics (ONS), NHS Wales Informatics Service (NWIS), the Welsh Results Reports Service (WRRS) and the Welsh Cancer Intelligence & Surveillance Unit (WCISU) within Public Health Wales. A list of the relevant primary publications that describe SAIL appears in the About the data for Wales page.
Technology partners
Citations
You are welcome to reuse content created by The Brain Tumour Charity for your own work. Credit us as authors by referencing The Brain Tumour Charity as the primary source. Suggested styles are:
Web content: The Brain Tumour Charity, full URL of the page, Accessed [month] [year].
Graphics (when reused unaltered): Credit: The Brain Tumour Charity.
Graphics (when recreated with differences): Based on a graphic created by The Brain Tumour Charity.
When The Brain Tumour Charity material is used for commercial reasons, we encourage a donation to help us fund research to find a cure quicker. Send a cheque payable to The Brain Tumour Charity to: The Brain Tumour Charity, Fleet 27 Rye Close, Fleet, Hampshire, United Kingdom, GU51 2UH or donate online.