Provincial report card

Manitoba

3 of 8 categories assessed · Evidence assessed to August 2025

Not gradedInsufficient data

Only 3 of 8 categories could be assessed from the research inventories, below the five-category minimum for a grade. The mean of the assessed categories (2.3) is shown for transparency only. Missing evidence is never scored as zero.

How Manitoba scored, category by category

1 · Strategy & pancreatic focus

2 / 4

CancerCare Manitoba's Strategic Framework 2024–2029 governs care delivered from Winnipeg plus 11 regional oncology clinics; the strategy "does not explicitly highlight pancreatic cancer".

2 · Biomarker & genetic testing

3 / 4

CancerCare Manitoba's Molecular Diagnostics Expansion is recorded "In effect" (record dated 11/1/2024) — a funded expansion of molecular diagnostics in operation. Not obtainable: the expansion's marker-level scope is not detailed in the corpus.

3 · Drug coverage & patient costs

Not assessable

Not obtainable: Manitoba drug coverage and patient costs are not covered in the corpus.

4 · Clinical trials access

Not assessable

Not obtainable: Manitoba clinical trials access is not covered in the corpus; the Community Oncology Program concerns treatment delivery, not trials.

5 · Timely care — waits & surgical capacity

Not assessable

Not obtainable: Manitoba pancreatic surgical location and wait times are not covered in the corpus.

6 · Travel & transport support

Not assessable

Coordinated travel support for northern and remote communities is documented as existing, but its terms — funding, lodging, prepayment, eligibility — are not in the corpus, so no band can be placed honestly.

7 · Workforce, navigation & support

2 / 4

Navigation is available through a specific program — the Aboriginal Cancer Care Program's Indigenous Patient Navigators, with traditional-healing integration — and the Community Oncology Program of shared-care clinics is rated "High" for adequacy as a decentralized care model. Not obtainable: no Manitoba workforce-policy adequacy rating exists in the corpus.

8 · Research funding & representation

Not assessable

Not obtainable: the findings publish institution-level CIHR register counts only for the concentration institutions and the Atlantic provinces; Manitoba's register presence cannot be determined from them.

Strongest areas

Biomarker & genetic testing3 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