Provincial report card
British Columbia
6 of 8 categories assessed · Evidence assessed to August 2025
How British Columbia scored, category by category
1 · Strategy & pancreatic focus
2 / 4B.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 / 4The 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 assessableNot 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 / 4BC 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 assessableNot 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 / 4The 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 / 4BC 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 / 4The 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