Cancer-care resources by province and territory

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Cancer Patient Navigation — Alberta Health Services: Alberta's cancer patient navigation service.

Additional support

Supporting patients during cancer treatment — Alberta Health Services.

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New patients — BC Cancer: what to expect and how care is organized at BC Cancer's centres.

Getting referred

Ask the clinician arranging your care which BC Cancer centre is receiving your referral and whether the required reports have been sent. BC Cancer's referral form is a health-professional resource — it explains the documentation referrals require; it is not a patient self-referral service.

Drug costs and coverage

Financial assistance — BC Cancer: published information on help with treatment-related costs.

Travel and accommodation

Transportation and lodging — BC Cancer: options for getting to treatment and staying nearby.

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Cancer Navigation Services — CancerCare Manitoba: help finding your way through cancer care in Manitoba.

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Cancer patient navigation — Government of New Brunswick, and Horizon's Adult Oncology Nurse Navigation Program.

Drug costs and coverage

Explore the New Brunswick Drug Plan if you do not have prescription coverage or your private insurance does not cover a prescribed medication. Eligibility, premiums, co-payments and the formulary apply.

New Brunswick Drug Plans: 1-800-332-3692 within New Brunswick, or 506-867-4515, Monday–Friday, 8 a.m.–5 p.m., excluding holidays. This is the drug-plans line — it is not an oncology intake number.

Apply for the New Brunswick Drug Plan · Check the provincial drug formulary — some listed drugs require special authorization.

Drug costs and coverage

Newfoundland and Labrador Prescription Drug Program (NLPDP): the province's drug coverage programs and how to apply.

Travel and accommodation

Medical Transportation Assistance Program (MTAP): provincial help with eligible medical travel — check its approval rules before you travel.

Port to Care — the foundation's $500 travel grants for Atlantic Canadians travelling for pancreatic cancer care (open).

Additional support

Indigenous patient navigators (NL Health Services): St. John's 709-777-2199 or 709-777-2110 · Western 709-640-9007 or 1-833-640-9007 · Labrador 709-899-0725.

Palliative care navigators: 709-777-7303 or 1-855-690-7303 (toll-free). Read also: Palliative care for pancreatic cancer in Newfoundland.

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Cancer Navigation Program — Northwest Territories Health and Social Services Authority.

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Cancer patient navigation — Nova Scotia Health, and the Cancer Care Program.

Additional support

Practical and financial support for cancer patients — Nova Scotia Health.

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Cancer — Government of Nunavut, Department of Health.

Travel and accommodation

Most specialist care requires travel. Nunavut Medical Travel Handbook (2025): how medical travel and escorts are arranged — approval is required before travel.

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Find cancer services — Cancer Care Ontario: regional cancer centres and services across Ontario.

Drug costs and coverage

Read the foundation's detailed guide: Ontario financial support programs for pancreatic cancer — take-home drug assistance and other programs, explained.

Travel and accommodation

Northern Health Travel Grant Program: travel help for northern Ontario residents referred for care far from home — geographic restrictions apply.

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Contact Health PEI's Cancer Patient Navigator for help finding your way through cancer-related services and resources: 902-894-2552 or 1-877-511-5177 (toll-free), or cancerpatientnavigator@ihis.org.

The separate general Provincial Patient Navigator (not cancer-specific) is at 1-844-882-3141.

Patient navigators — Health PEI

Travel and accommodation

Care that isn't offered on the Island may qualify for the Out-of-Province Travel Support Program: 902-368-5918 or ooptravelsupport@gov.pe.ca. See Financial assistance for out-of-province medical travel — Health PEI.

Additional support

Mi'kmaq Health Systems Navigators (East and West) support Indigenous patients accessing Health PEI services — contacts are listed on the Health PEI patient navigators page above.

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Cancer — Gouvernement du Québec: provincial information and where care is organized.

Additional support

Help, resources and tools for people with cancer and their loved ones — Gouvernement du Québec.

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Saskatchewan Cancer Agency — and its new patients page: what happens at a first appointment.

Drug costs and coverage

Consult the Saskatchewan Cancer Agency's current drug formulary and ask your oncology team or cancer-centre pharmacist how its criteria apply to your proposed treatment: SCA drug formulary. Formulary documents state the date their funding information applies to — check that you are reading the current one.

Additional support

Supportive care services — Saskatchewan Cancer Agency.

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Cancer Care Coordinator — Whitehorse General Hospital.

Travel and accommodation

Learn about coverage for medical travel costs — Yukon.ca: treatment often requires travel out of territory; check approval rules first.