Introduction to Cancer Registries
Registry - Answer- systematic collection of data specific to a type of disease, exposure to hazardous substances or events, or trauma and treatment.
Provide surveillance mechanisms (collection, collation, analysis, and dissemination of data) and for some, in...
Introduction to Cancer Registries
Registry - Answer- systematic collection of data specific to a type of disease,
exposure to hazardous substances or events, or trauma and treatment.
Provide surveillance mechanisms (collection, collation, analysis, and dissemination
of data) and for some, incidence (occurrence) measures.
Case - Answer- A person with a given disease or condition that will be included in
the registry
Epidemiologic case definitions - Answer- CDC
disease that must be report to a public health agency.
Clinical case definition - Answer- list of signs and symptoms that establish a clinical
dx if it meets the epidemiologic case criteria.
Case Finding - Answer- method through which all eligible cases to be included in the
registry are identified, accessioned into the registry, and abstracted.
mechanisms should be redundant and include multiple methods to identify all the
cases but avoid duplicate entries.
Abstracting - Answer- process where a set of predetermined data on relevant
diseases or conditions is obtained from the patient record and related sources. This
provides a succinct summary characterizing various issues including demographic
information about the patient, diagnostic information, treatment data, outcome of
treatment, and follow-up informaiton
Follow-up - Answer- tracking the continued well-being of the patient and determining
patient status at specified intervals - Conducted on patients after they are
accessioned and entered into the database.
Registry quality control - Answer- visual and computerized checks on data entered
into the database should be performed by the personnel responsible for the
database of the registry. To ensure data validity, sampling of 5-10% reviewed for QC
Cancer registries - Answer- Most common type of registry
Concerned with assessing cancer incidence, treatment and end results.
Collect and maintain information on every patient with cancer form the initial date of
dx or treatment until death.
Case eligibility - Answer- defined by all the organization's patients diagnosed or
treated for active dieases on or after the reference date or beginning of the registry
are eligible for inclusion.
Accessioning - Answer- when patients are determined to be eligible and are added
to the registry
, Population-based cancer registries - Answer- Include incidence only, cancer control
and research operated by a government health agency and are designed to
determine cancer rates and trends in a defined population
International Classification of Diseases for Oncology, third ed - Answer- ICD-O-3
(WHO)
Best classification for developing a reportable list for a cancer registry - all tumors
with a morphology behavor code of 2 or hight (indicating an in situ or a malignant
tumor, be included for approved cancer programs.
used for certification
permits coding of all neoplasms including topography (site), morphology, grading,
differentiation
Cancer registry staging - Answer- The extent of the spread of cancer or stage at the
time of initial dx and treatment is record for every case in registry. Some are site
specific or system specific others are general and may be applied to almost all sites.
AJCC (committee on Cancer) Manual for staging of cancer system
Cancer committee - Answer- responsible for establishing the quality improvement
priorites of the cancer program and for monitoring the effectiveness of quality
improvement activities.
NCRA - Answer- Council on Certification of the NCRA
certifies cancer registrars after passing national examination as Certified Tumor
Registrars (CTR)
Cancer in humans was first seen: - Answer- 2500 B.C.
The word cancer was first used by: - Answer- the Greek physician Hippocrates
The term surveillance as applied to public health means: - Answer- monitoring of the
occurrence of selected health conditions in the population
The oldest example of a modern cancer registry is: - Answer- the Hamburg Cancer
Registry in Germany
What are the 3 types of cancer registries? - Answer- population based, hospital
based, specialty based
Does every stated in the US have a population based state wide central cancer
registry? - Answer- true
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