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Cancer.gov

Cancer.gov Disease API

Hematopoietic, lymphoid neoplasms and solid tumor diseases

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Cancer.gov Disease API is one of 48 APIs that Cancer.gov publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Disease. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, rate-limit docs, and an API reference.

This API exposes 21 operations across 21 paths, and defines 21 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 1.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.seer.cancer.gov.

21 operations 21 paths 21 schemas 2 DELETE11 GET6 POST2 PUT

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
API Version
1.0
Base URL
https://clinicaltrialsapi.cancer.gov/api/v2
Authentication
API Key
Terms of Service
View terms
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

Cancer.gov Disease API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. An API key is passed in the header as X-SEERAPI-Key (apiKeyScheme). By default, every request must be authenticated.

Paths & Operations 21

Across 21 paths, the API surfaces 21 operations — 2 DELETE, 11 GET, 6 POST, 2 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

disease 21

Hematopoietic, lymphoid neoplasms and solid tumor diseases

PUT
/rest/disease/{version}/update
Update a disease entry
updateDisease 1 param body → 201400404
PUT
/rest/disease/{version}/reset/{id}
Reset a disease entry
resetDisease 2 params → 201400404204
POST
/rest/disease/{version}/unhide/{id}
Unhide a disease item
unhideDisease 3 params → 201400404204
POST
/rest/disease/{version}/publish
Publish the specified disease entities into the associated production database
publishDisease 1 param body → 201400404204
POST
/rest/disease/{version}/hide/{id}
Hide a disease item
hideDisease 3 params → 201400404204
POST
/rest/disease/{version}/create
Save a new disease entry
createDisease 1 param body → 201400404
POST
/rest/disease/versions/create
Creates a new BETA version database
createBetaVersion_2 1 param → 201
POST
/rest/disease/reportability
Returns the reportable year range of the supplied disease
getReportability body → 200400
GET
/rest/disease/{version}
Return a list of Disease entries
searchDiseases 18 params → 200400
GET
/rest/disease/{version}/status_summary
Return a list of disease entries
diseaseStatus 1 param → 200404
GET
/rest/disease/{version}/same_primary
Indicate whether 2 morphologies (and diagnosis years) represent the same primary
isSame 5 params → 200404
GET
/rest/disease/{version}/keywords
Return a list of keywords contained in the disease entries
getKeywords_2 3 params → 200
GET
/rest/disease/{version}/id/{id}
Return a single disease
getDiseaseById 3 params → 200404
GET
/rest/disease/{version}/id/{id}/{year}
Return a single disease with only year-based information for the passed year…
getDiseaseByIdWithYear 3 params → 200404
GET
/rest/disease/{version}/changelog
Return a list of Disease changelog entries
getChangelog_2 7 params → 200400
GET
/rest/disease/versions
Return a list of all versions of the disease database
getDiseaseVersions → 200
GET
/rest/disease/site_categories
Return the complete list of site categories for use in the search API
getSiteCategories → 200
GET
/rest/disease/primary_site
Return the list of ICDO2/ICDO3 primary site codes and labels
getPrimarySites → 200
GET
/rest/disease/primary_site/{code}
Return the list of ICDO2/ICDO3 primary sites matching a code
getPrimarySites_1 1 param → 200404
DELETE
/rest/disease/{version}/delete/{id}
Delete a disease entry
deleteDisease 3 params → 201400404204
DELETE
/rest/disease/versions/delete
Deletes an existing BETA version and all associated glossary entries
deleteBetaVersion_2 1 param → 204

Schemas 21

The contract defines 21 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Disease (55 properties), PublishableEntity (13 properties), PublishableSearchResults (7 properties), PublishableChangelog (7 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

DiseaseSource
object
3 properties
SummaryCount
object
3 properties
Lookup
object
2 properties
SiteRange
object
2 properties
Disease
object
Disease entity
55 properties
PublishableChangelogEntry
object
4 properties
ApiKeywordMatch
object
6 properties
PublishableEntity
object
13 properties
SiteCategory
object
3 properties
YearRangeInteger
object
3 properties
PublishableChangelogResults
object
4 properties
PublishableChangelog
object
7 properties
PublishInfo
object
Publish info
5 properties
KeywordInfo
object
2 properties
DateRangeString
object
3 properties
DiseaseVersion
object
5 properties
SamePrimaries
object
5 properties
PublishableSearchResults
object
7 properties
PublishStatus
object
3 properties
YearRangeString
object
3 properties
YearRange
object
2 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

cancer-gov-disease-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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API Details
ID
cancer-gov:cancer-gov-disease-api
Base URL
https://clinicaltrialsapi.cancer.gov/api/v2
Docs
https://clinicaltrialsapi.cancer.gov/
Provider
Cancer.gov
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