Pan-Canadian Cancer Data Strategy
A new strategy has been released by the Canadian Cancer Society (CCS) and the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer (the Partnership), aiming to address the urgent need to close gaps in cancer data in Canada. The pan-Canadian Cancer Data Strategy is the country’s first strategy to focus on cancer-specific data challenges.
The strategy comes after the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted critical issues with health data in Canada, and just months after the Government of Canada called on provinces and territories to adopt common standards and policies related to health data.