References¶
Data resource profile¶
Choi DW, Guk MY, Kim HR, Ryu KS, Kong HJ, Cha HS, Kim HJ, Chae H, Jeon YS, Kim H, Jung J, Im JS, Choi KS. Data Resource Profile: The Cancer Public Library Database in South Korea. Cancer Research and Treatment. 2024;56(4):1014-1026. doi:10.4143/crt.2024.207
This is the published description of the Cancer Public Library, written for its first release. The current years are on sources and versions.
Official pages¶
Pages on this site follow these public descriptions. Each dataset page names the ones it uses.
- K-CURE portal
- Cancer Public Library overview
- K-CURE library overview, including the sample list
- Data catalogs for the customized extract and each sample, downloaded 30 October 2026
- Portal FAQ
- National Cancer Center press release of August 2023 on the staging samples
- Clinical library overview
- Clinical library schemas
- Public-data application and the English application page
- Safe-use centers and the English center page
- Specialized data
- Health and medical data
- National Cancer Data Center catalog
- Portal notice of 18 September 2026: Cancer Public Library customized-database dictionary version 4.0 and crosswalk version 2.0, effective 1 October 2026. The PDFs are the attachments on that notice.
Related documentation¶
NHIS Data Documentation covers the National Health Insurance Service research databases. Those databases share claims, eligibility, and screening concepts with the public library, and they are a different extract.