Ontario Familial Colorectal Cancer Registry

The Ontario Familial Colorectal Cancer Registry (OFCCR)

The OFCCR collects personal and family health information from Ontario residents who have a family history of colorectal cancer and stores that information to be used in research studies. The registry provides an infrastructure for future research on genetic forms of colorectal cancer and the new preventive and therapeutic strategies to combat it.

Registry data is combined with that from the five other international colon sites to be used in both Ontario-specific and large international research projects.

The registry has served as a valuable resource for research in the area of familial colorectal cancer and has already fostered many research papers. For more information, go to the Cancer Family Registries Web site.

Since 1997, the OFCCR has collected information on over 1,800 participants with colorectal cancer, 2,500 of their relatives, and almost 1,600 individuals from the general population.

If you are a member of the OFCCR and have questions regarding your participation, call us at 416-971-9800, ext. 1214 or email us at OFCCR@cancercare.on.ca.