Cancer Care Ontario says residents in northwestern Ontario are living a lifestyle that poses a cancer risk.
The number of smokers and persons overweight are higher than the provincial average.
Michael Power of the Regional Cancer Centre says just cutting down on smoking would help reduce those rates.
"If we we're just simply to pull back to the provincial average of about 18 per cent of residents in the region smoking as opposed to 23 per cent, that five per cent gain would cut our lung cancer numbers in half," says Power.
The report card also shows the Regional Centre in Thunder Bay doing a good job in cancer radiation treatment.
