Territorial report card
Northwest Territories
1 of 8 categories assessed · Evidence assessed to August 2025
Only 1 of 8 categories could be assessed from the research inventories, below the five-category minimum for a grade. The mean of the assessed categories (1.0) is shown for transparency only. Missing evidence is never scored as zero.
How Northwest Territories scored, category by category
1 · Strategy & pancreatic focus
1 / 4The documented NWT posture is territorial screening, referral, and community-based supports with reliance on southern tertiary centres — services in operation without a consolidated cancer strategy or agency-equivalent structure.
2 · Biomarker & genetic testing
Not assessableNot obtainable: the biomarker policy database has no entries for the Northwest Territories.
3 · Drug coverage & patient costs
Not assessableNot obtainable: not covered in the corpus.
4 · Clinical trials access
Not assessableNot obtainable: not covered in the corpus.
5 · Timely care — waits & surgical capacity
Not assessableNot obtainable: not covered in the corpus beyond the referral posture recorded under Category 1.
6 · Travel & transport support
Not assessableNot obtainable: not covered in the corpus.
7 · Workforce, navigation & support
Not assessableNot obtainable: not covered in the corpus.
8 · Research funding & representation
Not assessableNot obtainable: the findings publish institution-level CIHR register counts only for the concentration institutions and the Atlantic provinces; the Northwest Territories' register presence cannot be determined from them.
Where it falls short
- Strategy & pancreatic focus1 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