Ethnicity data are a standard data element in the Canadian Cancer Registry.

• A. True
• B. False
• C. Not collected
• D. Unknown

Answer: (B)

Ethnicity data are not a standard data element in the Canadian Cancer Registry. The registry’s standard fields cover cancer-specific details (such as site, morphology, date of diagnosis, and smoking-related factors) and basic demographics like age and sex, but ethnicity is not collected uniformly across all provinces as a national standard. Some provinces may gather ethnicity in their own systems or researchers may link CCR data to other sources (like census data) for ethnicity analyses, but there is no universal, standardized ethnicity field in the CCR. This is why the statement is false.