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In order to demonstrate that nordcan.R also works with non-Nordic data, we used data from the Netherlands Cancer Registry.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>nordcan.R, publicly available on Github, takes as input cancer and general population data and produces tables of statistics. Each NORDCAN participant runs nordcan.R locally and delivers its results to IARC for publication. According to our anonymity assessment the data can be shared with international organizations, including IARC. nordcan.R incidence results on Norwegian and Dutch data are highly similar to those produced by two other independent methods.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>nordcan.R produces accurate cancer statistics where all personal and sensitive data are kept within each cancer registry. 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