What are some of CCO’s data holdings?
The best known of CCO’s data holdings is the Ontario Cancer Registry (OCR). The OCR is used to study information related to cancer in Ontario for health system planning and management purposes. It is also used to support research, such as studies that look at the relationship between smoking and lung cancer rates in young women. The OCR contains information on all diagnosed adult cancers in Ontario. It collects different information from different sources. For example, potential cases of cancer are identified from hospital records collected by the Canadian Institute for Health Information. Reports on the site and stage of the cancer are obtained from pathology reports collected by pathology laboratories in hospitals and private laboratories. Deaths related to cancer are identified by the Ontario Office of the Registrar General. A series of complex formulae are then used to combine the information to create a record that most likely represents an individual. It is this record that is st
