6,500 Colon Cancer Tests Lost in the Mail

Ontario's privacy commissioner hopes to track down just what happened to some of the most sensitive personal information on the planet.

Cancer screening results are just about the last thing that you'd want to get lost in the mail, but that's exactly what Cancer Care Ontario is saying what happened to the results of nearly 6,500 patient. The provincial agency says the results from tests conducted in February and March never made it to the patients' doctors, as Canada Post has apparently admitted to losing them somewhere in the mail delivery process. Ontario's privacy commissioner, Ann Cavoukian, has opened an investigation into the matter, as the records also contain all sorts of personal data, such as names, addresses, health information, you name it, it's missing. The records were part of Cancer Care's ColonCancerCheck program geared toward getting more people between the ages of 50-75 screened for the disease.