CTR Practice Exam 1 |Complete Questions with A+ Grade Answers
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CTR Practice Exam 1
A unique nine-digit number assigned to a patient, which indicates the year the patient was first seen at the facility and the sequential order in which the patient was identified by the registry is called:
an accession number
AJCC is an acronym for:
American Joint Commit...
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CTR Practice Exam 1
A unique nine-digit number assigned to a patient, which indicates the year the patient was first seen
at the facility and the sequential order in which the patient was identified by the registry is called:
an accession number
AJCC is an acronym for:
American Joint Committee on Cancer
Which of the following is a chemotherapeutic agent? Prednisone, Tamoxifen, Levamisole, or
Methotrexate
Methotrexate
Organization responsible for publishing disease codes:
WHO
Each year 90% of cases must be abstracted within ______ months of diagnosis:
six
The following must meet the standard for monitoring community outreach except:
1. NCI-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Programs
2. Affiliate Hospital Cancer program
3. Freestanding Cancer Center Program
4. Hospital Associate Cancer program
NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center Programs (NCIP)
The follow up rate maintained for all eligible analytic patients from the cancer registry reference date
is or within last 5 yrs, whichever is shorter:
90%
Dividing the number of males by the number of females in a study is a means of calculating the:
ratio
A lymphoma would most likely arise in which of the following?
1. thyroid gland
2. Hutchinson freckle
3. endocrine gland
4. Waldeyer ring
Waldeyer ring
The best way to display the survival rate by year of diagnosis for females with breast cancer between
2000 and 2005 is with a:
bar graph, line graph, pie chart, or summary table
line graph
To be considered for initial accreditation, the cancer committee must ensure that the cancer registry
database includes now many years of data?
,2 years
Population based registries would not include:
1. Dept of Defense (DoD)
2. NCDB
3. National program of Central registries
4. Surveillance Epidemiology & End Results
National Cancer Database (NCDB)
The Commission on Cancer (CoC) is a consortium of professional organizations dedicated to improving
survival and quality of life for cancer patients through: standard-setting, prevention, research,
education, and the:
1. promoting TNM staging
2. monitoring of comprehensive quality care
3. publishing disease codes
4. development of the profession of cancer registry
monitoring of comprehensive quality care
The basic goal of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) is to ensure:
1. family history data of each patient enrolled in a protocol is protected
2. human subjects are screened
3. study design meets the criteria of the study
4. rights of human subjects are protected
the rights of human subjects are protected
The number of patients in a given area with cancer is called the:
prevalence rate
A typical policy involving patient identification in a research project should contain which of the
following?
1. a list of other participants involved in the study
2. the relevance & importance of the project
3. the location of stored information
4. monetary compensation
the relevance and importance of the project
The NCDB provides the following to promote access to their data for researchers, physicians, and the
general public:
1. published peer review journal articles
2. CoC cancer program standards-2004
3. hospital comparison reports
4. web based benchmarking applications
web-based benchmarking applications
Which of the following is considered part of the biliary system?
1. sphincter of Oddi
2. pouch of Rathke
3. pouch of Douglas
4. duct of Wharton
sphincter of Oddi
, A requirement for central registries is to maintain the following quality control measure:
1. list of qualified CTR consultants
2. family history for each cancer case
3. DCO followback
4. proprietary software applications for all reporting facilities
DCO followback
Which term represents the most frequently occurring value in a data set?
mode, mean, median, frequency
mode
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The current data standards manual used in cancer registries for cases diagnosed on or after 2001 is
the:
Facility Oncology Registry Data Standards Manual
Reed-Sternberg cells are associated with what malignancy?
Hodgkin Lymphoma
In computer terms a CPU is a:
central processing unit
What is the first step in selecting data to include in a report?
1. collect the data
2. determine the period the study is to cover
3. identify the audience
4. perform quality control of the data
identify the audience
Central cancer registries can provide information for which of the following purpose?
1. genealogy
2. locating patients to follow up
3. assisting the facilities in completeing the patient's treatment history
4. cancer mapping
cancer mapping
In code categories, data items that have the same name or intent should indicate the same
information collected in each registry. When they do not, the following occurs:
1. comparision of data between registries is misinterpreted
2. additional edits must be incorporated into software to allow for comparison of data
3. information can be manipulated to create comparison of data items
4. does not apply since HIPAA prevents sharing
comparison of data between registries is misinterpreted
Epidemiology is:
1. the branch of medicine concerned w/diagnoses, treatment, & prevention of diseases
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