Inventory of Federal, Provincial and Territorial Environmental and Occupational Health Data
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Inventory of Data Sources

Cancer Case Surveillance System (Health Canada)

Contact
Robert Semenciw
Surveillance and Risk Assessment Division
Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention & Control
Population and Public Health Branch
Health Canada
Tel: (613) 957-1768
Fax: (613) 941-2057
E-mail: Robert_Semenciw@hc-sc.gc.ca

Organization Maintaining the Database
Health Canada

Purpose of Database
The goal of this surveillance program, which collects information from a variety of databases, is to provide timely, reliable cancer statistics for use in publications and to respond to information requests; to monitor national cancer incidence, prevalence and mortality, using temporal geographic and high-risk population information, survival analysis, and projections; and to establish a nationwide and world class population-based cancer surveillance network.

Content
Data on cancer incidence, prevalence, and mortality, risk factors, epidemiology; hospital admission and discharge data; demographic data; geographic data. Geolocators: postal code; metropolitan area.

Coverage Period
1969 to 1997

Data Updates
Annually; 120,000 records per year are added to the database.

Data Providers
Provincial cancer registries, the Canadian Institute for Health Information, and Statistics Canada.

Data Availability
Access to the data is restricted to Health Canada surveillance personnel.

Reports
"Canadian Cancer Statistics" and "Chronic Diseases in Canada", as well as mortality atlases, journal articles, etc. Information is also posted on the Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control (Health Canada) website.