How does CCO use the information it collects?
CCO uses the information it collects to: • Plan and manage the cancer system in Ontario. This includes: • Studying and reporting on patterns of cancer in the province. For example, using data collected over many years, CCO is able to report on: • whether the incidence of cancer in general, or any specific type of cancer, is increasing, decreasing or remaining stable; • survival rates for different types of cancer, that is how long people with certain types of cancer can expect to live and if survival is changing over time; • the prevalence of cancers, that is how many people are living with cancer in Ontario; and • relationships between sex, age, environmental factors or geographic locations and cancer. • Evaluating the effects of early diagnosis and treatment; • Studying service delivery and utilization; • Estimating current and future needs for cancer services; • Studying wait times for cancer surgery. • Support cancer screening programs, such as: • The Ontario Breast Screening Progr
