Organized Breast Cancer Screening Programs in Canada

1999 and 2000 Report

Canadian Breast Cancer Screening Database

The CBCSD is a national breast screening surveillance system that furthers collaboration in monitoring and evaluating organized breast cancer screening across Canada. Established in 1993, it is operated and maintained by Health Canada's Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control. Through the Canadian Breast Cancer Screening Initiative (CBCSI), the CBCSD is managed by the Database Management Committee (Appendix 1) and implemented by the Database Technical Subcommittee (Appendix 2). 

Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) exist between the Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control and 11 of the organized screening programs. The MOU clarify issues of ownership, access, accountability and confidentiality with respect to data collected by the CBCSD. These data can be used to generate national statistics, to compare data interprovincially and internationally, and to provide a larger database from which to conduct research activities. Research priorities using the CBCSD are identified on an ongoing basis. 

The CBCSD currently contains screening information from program inception up to the end of 2000 for all 10 provinces: British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland. Test data from the Northwest Territories are currently being analyzed. Because the Yukon does not have a computerized information system, its data are not available to the CBCSD. Nunavut does not have an organized program in place. 

For more detailed information regarding the data collected, please refer to Organized Breast Cancer Screening Programs in Canada 1996 Report (http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/obcsp-podcs/
index.html) and Organized Breast Cancer Screening Programs in Canada 1997 and 1998 Report (http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/
obcsp-podcs98/index.html). 

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