Resources
Here, you’ll find consensus documents, guidelines and other documentation produced by CAPCA and its partners to strengthen and align how cancer care is delivered across the country.
Use the search function or the filters to identify specific materials of interest.
Radiotherapy data standards: TG-263 and O3 Resources
In 2024, the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer (CPAC) and the Canadian Cancer Society published a Pan-Canadian Cancer Data Strategy to help strengthen how cancer data are collected, shared, and used across Canada.
Guidance tree for handling events within the BCPSLS
To support accurate data entry, BC has developed several procedural resources including a guidance tree used for handling events within the BCPSLS. This resource is shared here for reference purposes.
Webinar Recording: pan-Canadian Radiotherapy Data Harmonization Project
An initiative of the pan-Canadian Cancer Data Strategy (cancer data strategy), this June 2025 webinar explores the pan-Canadian Radiotherapy Data Harmonization Project – a key initiative advancing data-driven cancer care across the country by enhancing interoperability and ensuring various data sets are accessible, ready for analysis and easily linkable.
National System for Incident Reporting – Radiation treatment pilot assessment report, Summary
The National System for Incident Reporting (NSIR), launched by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) in 2010, is a voluntary, web-based reporting system that collects medication incident data from acute and long-term care facilities.
Quality assurance guidelines for Canadian radiation treatment programs
This document outlines the overarching elements of quality that are important in all radiation treatment programs, together with Key Quality Indicators (KQIs), for periodic programmatic self-assessment and quality improvement.
Technical quality control guideline for treatment planning systems
This document contains detailed performance objectives and safety criteria for Treatment Planning Systems.
Technical quality control guideline for patient-specific dosimetric measurements for modulated radiation therapies
This document contains detailed performance objectives and safety criteria for Patient-Specific Dosimetric Measurements for Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy.
Technical quality control guidelines for medical linear accelerators and multi-leaf collimators
This document contains detailed performance objectives and safety criteria for Medical Linear Accelerators and Multileaf Collimators.
Technical quality control guidelines for major dosimetry equipment
This document contains detailed performance objectives and safety criteria for Major Dosimetry Equipment.
