Region of the Americas (AMR)

Research Priority Plan 2024-2029 "Amplifying Impact: Leveraging Cancer Research to Enhance the Health of Canadians", features three new research priority areas in cancer prevention, cancer survivorship, and cancer data strategy and advanced analytics.

This pan-Canadian Cancer Data Strategy (cancer data strategy) will guide efforts to enhance the collection, integration and use of cancer data, focusing primarily on administrative data to support policy and planning, system-level clinical quality improvement, and health services and policy research.

The cancer data strategy includes: 

• an organizing framework outlining the mission, vision, values and success factors defining the strategy;
• a set of priorities and facilitators that help drive action and investments;
• a section on the importance of First Nations, Inuit and Métis data sovereignty with examples of First Nations, Inuit and Métis-led efforts to improve data and data governance.