Prince Edward Island

The PEI Cancer Action Plan 2023–2028 (launched Feb 28, 2023) sets five priorities and four enablers, and the provincial comparison identifies CAD 2 million across screening, referral arrangements, and consortium integration; funding inside the plan itself is embedded in Health PEI budgets with no explicit program budgets presented, and there are no PEI-specific pancreatic programs.

PEI has no in-province biomarker testing pathway: access runs solely under the provincial policy for out-of-province access to tests not available on PEI (in effect; record dated 6/30/2025), with germline testing via the Maritime Medical Genetics Service in Halifax.

This score rests on the Atlantic regional figure — up to 59% of take-home oncology medicine spending was privately paid in the Atlantic groupings (PEI & NL combined) vs 12% in Alberta (PMPRB 2021, 2019 data). PEI-specific corroboration: the implementation database flags take-home drug coverage disparities — patients "don't have full coverage for all types of medication".

No local trial infrastructure is documented for PEI; access runs by cross-provincial referral, which the corpus records as functional, with navigation support and centralized travel information via Health PEI.

PEI has no in-province pancreatic surgery — Whipple-eligible cases are typically performed in Halifax — while systemic therapy is delivered in-province at the PEI Cancer Treatment Centre and its Summerside satellite. PEI also carries the longest documented wait in the corpus: 77.4 weeks, median GP referral to treatment (Fraser Institute, Waiting Your Turn 2024). Scored on surgical location per this category's declared simplification (see methodology flags).

The Health PEI Maritime Bus Subsidy (income-based 100%/50%) and the Hope Air partnership were each rated 4 of 5 by student assessors, and a Health PEI Hotel Subsidy Program exists; documented constraints include advance approval 10 days before travel and restriction to a single carrier's schedules.

No CIHR pancreatic-cancer grant is hosted at a PEI institution — 0 of 88 records nationally. PEI participates in regional collaboration as one of the four Atlantic Cancer Consortium provinces, whose patient advisory committee holds equal representation from all four provinces.