Cancer among the Inuit

Regions: North Slave Region

Tags: health, social sciences, cancer, epidemiology

Principal Investigator: Freitag, Sharon (2)
Licence Number: 8046
Organization: Department of Health (GNWT)
Licensed Year(s): 1988 1987
Issued: Jan 01, 1988
Project Team: L. Baudette

Objective(s): To complete a review of records in order to produce a consolidated, valid account of the descriptive epidemiology of cancer in Inuit in Canada for comparison with data available on cancer in Inuit in other circumpolar regions

Project Description: Ms. Freitag is completing a study begun in 1987 to see how and why the types of cancer that Inuit develop have changed since 1950.