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British Columbia

6 of 8 categories assessed · Evidence assessed to August 2025

B2.5 of 4

How British Columbia scored, category by category

1 · Strategy & pancreatic focus

2 / 4

B.C.'s 10-Year Cancer Action Plan (2023–2033) carries an initial CAD $440 million investment announced in 2023 and is delivered through six regional cancer centres, with reported year-one hiring of over 70 oncologists and more than 30 radiation therapists; no pancreatic-specific provisions are documented.

2 · Biomarker & genetic testing

3 / 4

The Cancer Genetics & Genomics Laboratory holds a provincial mandate for molecular diagnostics for all cancer patients in BC, recorded "In effect" — an operational province-wide program, though the corpus does not describe a standardized funding-and-coordination program of the Ontario type.

3 · Drug coverage & patient costs

Not assessable

Not obtainable: BC's drug coverage architecture and patient drug costs are not covered in the corpus. (The donor-funded patient relief fund documented for BC is scored under Category 6.)

4 · Clinical trials access

2 / 4

BC is one of three CRAFT pilot provinces for decentralized trials and is listed among the provinces with clinical trial sites. Not obtainable: no BC enrolment rate and no BC pancreatic-specific trial program is documented in the corpus.

5 · Timely care — waits & surgical capacity

Not assessable

Not obtainable: the corpus does not state where pancreatic surgery for BC patients is delivered and contains no BC wait-time figure.

6 · Travel & transport support

1 / 4

The only BC patient-cost support documented is charitable: the BC Cancer Foundation's donor-funded Patient Relief Fund (established ~2019, ongoing); the corpus documents no BC provincial travel program and contrasts the fund with the absence of a dedicated province-wide relief fund in Atlantic Canada.

7 · Workforce, navigation & support

3 / 4

BC operates a province-wide integrated outcomes platform (OaSIS/COSI), and its action plan's first year filled over 325 FTE positions including oncologists and radiation therapists and established eight Indigenous patient navigator positions; no retention mechanisms are documented.

8 · Research funding & representation

4 / 4

The University of British Columbia holds the largest institutional share of the national CIHR register (46 of 270 records), and BC hosts a major pancreatic-flagged grant in the filtered register (Simon Fraser University, $994,500). (The representation inventories measure Atlantic representation only; this score rests on hosted funding and infrastructure.)

Strongest areas

  • Biomarker & genetic testing3 of 4
  • Workforce, navigation & support3 of 4
  • Research funding & representation4 of 4

Where it falls short

  • Travel & transport support1 of 4

Grades rest on structured research inventories reviewed and verified by The Heather Cutler Foundation. They assess documented systems, not individual care. See all thirteen jurisdictions · Read the full report

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