Since 2004 the Cancer Alliance Queensland have compiled and analysed a vast amount of information about cancer incidence, mortality, treatment, and survival. Key to our program of work is the ability to match and link population-based cancer information on an individual person basis. This matched and linked data is housed in the Queensland Oncology Repository (QOR), a resource managed by us.
This centralised repository compiles and collates data from a range of source systems including the Queensland Cancer Register, private and public hospital admissions data, death data, treatment systems, public and private pathology, hospital clinical data systems and QOOL. From this information, a personalised record for each cancer patient is created offering practical information for healthcare planning, management, and treatment. Our matching and linking processes generate millions of cancer records from 1982 onwards and this provides data for all our reporting.