Epidemiology & Cancer Registry • Room ON-2114 675 McDermot Ave Winnipeg, MB R3E 0V9 tel. (204) 787-2174 fax (204) 786-0628 Epidemiologist/Provincial Director, Population Oncology: Donna Turner, PhD Manager, Cancer Registry: Gail Noonan, CTR Epidemiology Team Leader/Epidemiologist: Alain Demers, PhD Administrative Assistant: Karen Carson-Walton Project Manager, Population Health & Research: Cheryl Clague , CHIM Epidemiologists: • Jane Griffith, PhD • Erich Kliewer, PhD (Contractor) Health Outcomes Analysts: • Katherine Fradette • Pascal Lambert • Janet Nowatzki • Kimi Guilbert Programmer/Analysts: • Wendy Fonseca-Holt • Humaira Khair • Huimin ("Michelle") Lu • Giselle Mak • Grace Musto • Mary Natividad • Zhuping ("Emma") Shu • Lin Xue External Statistical Consultant: Zoann Nugent, PhD Risk Factor Surveillance: • Elizabeth Harland - Cancer Prevention Research Coordinator • Kate McGarry - Cancer Prevention Research Coordinator • Paul McArthur - Research Associate Manitoba Cancer Stage Information Initiative: Andrea Downey-Franchuk, PMP Project Manager Senior Cancer Registrars: • JoAnne Janzen, CHIM, CTR • Terri-Lee Handel, HIT Quality Control Coordinator: Coreen Hildebrand, HRT, CTR Staging Specialist: Sheila Fukumura, HIM, CTR Senior Registry Clerk: Judy Perry Cancer Registrars: • Maria Elena Avila • Douglas Buffie • Jennifer Cadger • Angela Deneka • Sharon Lawrence • Loriann Love • Melissa Scott • Kim Shore • Vesna Svitlica • Kyla Webber

The purpose of Epidemiology and Cancer Registry is to:

• Collect, classify and maintain accurate and comprehensive information on all cancer cases for the province of Manitoba.
• Respect and protect the right to privacy of the patient and ensure the appropriate use of this confidential health information.
• Provide an epidemiological base for provincial cancer control activities in the province of Manitoba.
• Collaborate with national and international agencies on cancer research.

What is Cancer Registration?

Cancer registration may be defined as the process of continuing systematic collection of data on the occurrence and characteristics of reportable neoplasms with the purpose of helping to assess and control the impact of malignancies on the community (from the IARC Scientific Publication - Cancer Registration Principles and Methods). Much of what we know about cancer today comes from cancer registry data.

The Manitoba Cancer Registry

• CancerCare Manitoba is legally mandated under the Public Health Act to collect, classify and maintain accurate comprehensive information on all cancer cases for the province of Manitoba.
• The Manitoba Cancer Registry is a population-based central cancer registry.
• Multiple sources of ascertainment are used to ensure high levels of case ascertainment. These include physician notifications, pathology and cytology reports, and hospitalization, mortality and autopsy records.
• Quality control is an important part of cancer registration in Manitoba.
• The Manitoba Cancer Registry also collects results of the estrogen/progesterone receptor (ER/PR) assay for the province and supports the Breast Tumor Bank in conjunction with the University of Manitoba.
• The Manitoba epidemiologists' main source of cancer information is the Manitoba Cancer Registry, which has been in operation since the 1930s, but part of Epidemiology and Cancer Registry since 1998.