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Canadian Research Data Centre Network

Canadian Cancer Registry

1992 - 2020

Subjects

HealthHealth care servicesLife expectancy and deaths

Overview

Summary

This is an administrative database that collects information on cancer incidence from all provincial and territorial cancer registries in Canada. Researchers need to choose whether to apply for the IARC or SEER versions of the Registry (the default is the IARC version of the data).

Please note that additional documentation is available for this database. Please contact your RDC analyst to request this documentation.

Available Cycles

Years Name
1992-2020 Canadian Cancer Registry

Documentation

Publication Note

All publications (e.g. scientific articles, reports, dissertations, theses) and presentations based on a dataset available in the RDCs should include an acknowledgement of the support provided by granting councils (SSHRC, CIHR, CFI), Statistics Canada and host university. See a sample

Related Publications

Melanie Campbell and Mohammad Hajizadeh (2021).

Trends in socioeconomic inequalities in the incidence of ovarian cancer among women in Canada: 1992-2010

Women and Health , 381-392

Feras M. Ghazawi, Agnihotram V. Ramanakumar, Akram Alakel, Francois Lagacé, Alex Chen, Michelle Le, Hacene Nedjar, Denis Sasseville, Elham Rahme, and Ivan V. Litvinov (2020).

Incidence of acute myeloid leukemia: A regional analysis of Canada

Cancer , 1356-1361

Kurt Willis and Mohammad Hajizadeh (2020).

Socioeconomic inequalities in gastric cancer incidence in Canada: 1992–2010

Acta Oncologica , 1333 – 1337

Simon F. Roy, Feras M. Ghazawi, Michelle Le, François Lagacé, Catherine F. Roy, Elham Rahme, Evgeny Savin, Andrei Zubarev, Denis Sasseville, Gizelle Popradi, and Ivan V. Litvinov (2020).

Epidemiology of adult and pediatric Burkitt Lymphoma in Canada: Sequelae of the HIV epidemic

Current Oncology , 83-89

Feras M. Ghazawi, Rami Darwich, Michelle Le, Abdulhadi Jfri, Elham Rahme, Julia Valdemarin Burnier, Denis Sasseville, Miguel N. Burnier Jr., and Ivan V. Litvinov (2020).

Incidence trends of conjunctival malignant melanoma in Canada

British Journal of Ophthalmology , 23-25

Ryan Densmore, Mohammad Hajizadeh, and Min Hu (2019).

Trends in socio-economic inequalities in bladder cancer incidence in Canada: 1992-2010

Canadian Journal of Public Health , 722-731

Rami Darwich, Feras M Ghazawi, Elham Rahme, Nebras Alghazawi, Andrei Zubarev, Linda Moreau, Denis Sasseville, Miguel N Burnier Jr, and Ivan V. Litvinov (2019).

Epidemiology of ophthalmic lymphoma in Canada during 1992-2010

British Journal of Opththalmology

Laetitia Amar, Michelle Le, Feras M. Ghazawi, Elham Rahme, Amanda Segal, Elena Netchiporouk, Gizelle Popradi, Linda Moreau, Osama Roshdy, Denis Sasseville, and Ivan Litvinov (2019).

Prevalence of human T cell lymphotropic virus 1 infection in Canada

Current Oncology , e3-e5

Diana Khalil, Martin J. Corsten, Margaret Holland, Adele Balram, James Ted McDonald, and Stephanie Johnson-Obaseki (2019).

Does socioeconomic status affect stage at presentation for larynx cancer in Canada's universal healthcare system?

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery , 488-493

Sarah Cohen, Michelle Z. Gurvitz, Virginie Beauséjour-Ladouceur, Patrick R. Lawler, Judith Therrien, and Ariane J. Marelli (2019).

Cancer risk in congenital heart disease - What is the evidence?

Canadian Journal of Cardiology , 1750-1761

Emily G. D. Maplethorpe (2019).

Can existing cohort studies with self-reported diagnosis be used in the study of rare cancer? Evaluating the feasibility of rare cancer research in emerging cohorts in Canada

Canadian Partnership Against Cancer (2019).

2019-2029 Canadian strategy for cancer control: Doing together what cannot be done alone

J. Tung, C. E. Politis, J. Chadder, J. Han, J. Niu, S. Fung, R. Rahal, and C. C. Earle (2018).

The north-south and east-west gradient in colorectal cancer risk: A look at the distribution of modifiable risk factors and incidence across Canada

Current Oncology , 231-235

Feras M. Ghazawi, Elena Netchiporouk, Elham Rahme, Matthew Tsang, Linda Moreau, Steven Glassman, Nathalie Provost, Martin Gilbert, Sara-Elizabeth Jean, Kevin Pehr, Denis Sasseville, and Ivan V. Litvinov (2017).

Comprehensive analysis of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) incidence and mortality in Canada reveals changing trends and geographic clustering for this malignancy

Cancer , 3550-3567

Y. Yuan, J. Ross, Q. Shi, and F. G. Davis (2017).

Conditional survival after a diagnosis of malignant brain tumour in Canada: 2000-2008

Current Oncology , 341-347

Pictou Landing Native Women's Group, H. Castleden, D. Lewis, R. Jamieson, M. Gibson, D. Rainham, R. Russell, D. Martin, and C. Hart (2016).

"Our Ancestors Are in Our Land, Water, and Air": A two-eyed seeing approach to researching environmental health concerns with Pictou Landing First Nation

Jill Hardt, Paul A. Demers, and M. Anne Harris (2015).

1991-2010 Canadian census mortality and cancer cohort: A linked cohort for the surveillance of occupational exposure and cancer

Martin J. Corsten, Matthew Hearn, James Ted McDonald, and Stephanie Johnson-Obaseki (2015).

Incidence of differentiated thyroid cancer in Canada by city of residence

Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery , 5-Jan

Euna Hwang, Stephanie Johnson-Obaseki, James Ted McDonald, Chris Connell, and Martin Corsten (2013).

Incidence of head and neck cancer and socioeconomic status in Canada from 1992 to 2007

Oral Oncology , 1072-1076

Noori Akhtar-Danesh, Alice Lytwyn, and Laurie Elit (2012).

Five-year trends in mortality indices among gynecological cancer patients in Canada

Gynecologic Oncology , 620-624

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