CDM 130 Lesson 2 Quiz questions and answers(latest update)

All the instructions needed for coding and staging all cancer cases are included in STORE manual. No other reference manuals are needed. False The tumors that meet Case Eligibility as stated in STORE must meet criteria for analytic and non-analytic class of case categories to be included in the registry. False Effective in 2015, Carcinoid Tumors of the Appendix must be coded with a behavior code of /3, and all prior appendix primaries were converted from /1 to /3 for consistency in following the historical incidence trends for this tumor. True An exception to the rule for Tumors Required by the CoC to be accessioned is that Carcinoma in situ of the cervix and intraepithelial neoplasm of the prostate, vulva, vagina, anus, and larynx, even though behavior /2 are not reportable. True Gastro-intestinal stromal tumors (GIST) are frequently non-malignant and never considered reportable. False The state cancer registry requires hospital registries to abstract and report pathology-only case. This requirement is an example of Reportable-by-Agreement. True Cancer registries collect malignancies with a behavior of 2 or 3. An exception to this rule is Juvenile Astrocytoma, listed in ICD-O-3 as 9421/1. The behavior code for this condition must be changed to /3 in the registry. True Class of Case codes allow differentiation between analytic and non-analytic cases and make additional distinctions. For analytic cases, the codes distinguish cases diagnosed in a staff physician's office from those diagnosed initially by the facility and patients fully treated at the facility from those partially treated by the reporting facility. Non-analytic cases are distinguished by whether the patient received care at the facility or did not personally appear there. True If a staff physician performs a biopsy off site from the facility and the specimen is not submitted to the facility to be read, the case is still required too be abstracted as an analytic case because the staff physician performed it. False The inpatient discharge summary documents a chest x-ray consistent with neoplasm of the right upper lobe. The patient refused further work-up or treatment. This case is reportable by use of ambiguous terms that constitute a diagnosis. False. Neoplasm Add or remove terms