The Canadian Cancer Society has released a new strategy for collecting data on cancer in Canada, one that they hope will address serious gaps in our knowledge of this deadly disease in Canada.
The Canadian Cancer Society has released a new strategy for collecting data on cancer in Canada, one that they hope will address serious gaps.
The leading cause of death in Canada is cancer. According to the report, more than 230,000 people were estimated to have been diagnosed with cancer in 2022, with 85,000 estimated to have died of it. But other datasets sit at the local level with little way for health-care professionals from other regions to access it or link it to their own data to gain a better picture of the disease across the country.
The first priority is to improve the efficiency and quality of data capture in order to speed up the process while also maintaining guidelines and standards. Authors explained that this third priority includes more research on “social determinants of health”, as well as better collection of patient experiences and outcomes and better data tracking survivorship, demographics, risk factors and palliative care.
A cancer strategy for Canada thus needs to facilitate Indigenous-led data collection and reporting, authors wrote, in order to help address health equity gaps that persist.
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