Everyone wants cancer decisions to be based on up-to-date, high-quality information.

Cancer guidelines bring this information together. They allow people working across the cancer community to shape their daily work by drawing on the best-available information. Guidelines can help people with cancer understand their care and make decisions with their health care team. They help form policy and resource decisions for the health system overall.

The Canadian strategy for cancer control recognizes the essential role of guidelines in promoting good practice, helping inform investment in new technologies and contributing to quality improvement programs.

The Canadian Partnership Against Cancer is working with partners across the cancer control community to champion evidence-based practice – the use of the best available information – and to enhance the use of guidelines and their development.