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CIM - 100The first national cancer registry program was established 1973 by _____,
collecting data on cancer cases in six states and two metropolitan areas. -
correct answer ✔SEER
The primary goal of a population-based registry is to improve patient care by
evaluation of treatment outcomes - correct answer ✔FALSE(hospital based)
National standards for completeness, timeliness, and quality of cancer registry
data are established by - correct answer ✔NAACCR
The United States has two agencies that provide national cancer data -
correct answer ✔SEER and NPCR
Hyperplasia refers to an abnormal increase in the size of each cell - correct
answer ✔FALSE
NAACCR's primary role is to represent and serve as a forum for the
organization, operation, quality control, and statistical reporting for - correct
answer ✔population-based cancer registries
Challenges for cancer registrars are and will continue to be - correct answer
✔Code data fields that change frequently, data collection, reporting standards
that are continually changing
An example of an environmental risk factor for cancer is - correct answer
✔Sunlight
,The organization that represents cancer registry professionals is - correct
answer ✔NCRA
The US National Cancer Act of 1971 resulted in the eventual establishment of
the SEER program? - correct answer ✔TRUE
The term surveillance as applied to public health means - correct answer
✔monitoring the occurrence of selected health conditions in the population.
Benign tumors do not invade other unrelated tissues in the body, but they may
grow in size abnormally - correct answer ✔TRUE
The International Classification of Diseases for Oncology is published by -
correct answer ✔World Health Organization
Every state has a population-base central cancer registry? - correct answer
✔TRUE
The first code manual for the morphology of neoplasms 1951 - correct
answer ✔ACS
The primary internal body surface that is exposed to carcinogens is the -
correct answer ✔Urinary bladder
Hyperplasia refers to an abnormal increase in the size of each cell. - correct
answer ✔FALSE - hypertrophy (hyperplasia refers to an abnormal increase in
the number of cells)
, According to the textbook, the NPCR supports state registries representing
approximately ____ of the U.S. population. - correct answer ✔96%
Ancient Greeks and Romans believed that cancer was caused by - correct
answer ✔An excess of black bile
Required data sets are the same for all standard setters - correct answer
✔FALSE
The type of edit that checks a one data field at a time - correct answer
✔Single-field edit
Reliability refers to - correct answer ✔How consistently different people will
code the same circumstances the same way.
Data item whose codes, definitions, and coding instruction are shared among
registry organization - correct answer ✔Standard data item
The acceptable race code for Caucasian is 01. What type of edit would
identify X1 entered in error? - correct answer ✔Single-field edit
New standard data items for cancer registries are implemented at the
beginning of a diagnosis year - correct answer ✔TRUE
It is possible for pathology labs to send reportable data electronically to
cancer registries - correct answer ✔TRUE
Logical comparison between data entered in one field and data entered in
another field is a(n) - correct answer ✔Inter-field check
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