Cancer Research Investment in Canada, 2005: The Canadian Cancer Research Alliance’s Survey of Government and Voluntary Sector Investment in Cancer Research in 2005. [...] Peer review is a process of subjecting a research All projects within the CCRA database were proposal to the scrutiny of experts in the field, classified according to type of research and type and making funding decisions on the basis of of cancer. [...] The National Cancer Institute of Canada (NCIC) WhAT WE dON’T kNOW represented the single largest cancer research The provincial distribution of the research funder in the voluntary sector, investing $57.5M dollars may be related to a number of factors in projects that they administered. [...] The findings of these CCRA is working on refining its database initiatives have provided strategic insight to to look at the geographic dispersion of research the Foundation, helping to inform the organi- dollars, and the level of expertise in cancer zation’s research investments in these regions research across the country. [...] Over half of all salary by combining the investment in the prevention awards and trainee research grants were in the categories with some of the projects focused on cancer biology area, somewhat higher than the etiology (origins and causes of cancer) as well proportion (44%) of direct support (operating as some projects within the surveillance code of grants) in this CSO area.