NCRA Exam Prep - Cancer Registry Coding and
Abstraction - Open Book Questions With Complete
Solutions
-The first method to describe cancer survival results and known
as the acturial method
- Divides total period during which a group is observed into
fixed intervals like months or years
-For each interval say 1 year, the proportion surviving to the end
of the intera is calculated on the basis of the number known to
have experience the end point(Death) during the interval and the
number estimated to have been at risk. Example is patient
survival /after one year dx for breast cancer is 95%.. Correct
Answers Life table method
"Tumor extends through the bowel wall into the serosa"
What is another term for serosa? Correct Answers Visceral
peritoneum
1st leading cause of cancer death for Women Correct Answers
Lung is the first breast is the second
autopsy at death classification Correct Answers denoted with
"a" prefix aT aN aM at time of death
Breast pathological prognostic stage group tip for bone mets
Correct Answers If the patient has bone mets, no info about
lymph nodes or prgnostic studies matters. Patient is
automatically stage IV
, circulating tumor cells (CTCs) and disseminated tumor cells
(DTCs) Correct Answers CTCs are found in blood and DTCs
are found in organs and micro metastsis in bone marroww
-assigned with (i+) suffix cM0(i+)
classification of no signs of distant metastais Correct Answers
Assign cM0. There is no pMO or MX classification.
Classifying non-hodgkins lymphoma Correct Answers The
World Heatlh Organization (WHO)
Found in both b cells and T cells. B cell is more common
Diffuse large b cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most aggressive
Indolent lymphomas grow slowly and most common is follicular
lymphoma
Classifying synchronous primary tumors in a single organ
Correct Answers When muliple invasvive tumors of same
histology present in one organ:
-Tumor with hightest Tcatgore and stage and (m)suffix is used
-example pT3(m) N0 M0
-Not used for in situ cancer or mixed invasive and in situ, or
multiple foci of in situ
Colon prognostic factors Correct Answers KRAS, NRAS, and
BRAF molecular tests to acess HER2 protein
change in NTRK gene
Serum CEA levels
Circumferential resection margin (CRM)
Tumor Regression score
Abstraction - Open Book Questions With Complete
Solutions
-The first method to describe cancer survival results and known
as the acturial method
- Divides total period during which a group is observed into
fixed intervals like months or years
-For each interval say 1 year, the proportion surviving to the end
of the intera is calculated on the basis of the number known to
have experience the end point(Death) during the interval and the
number estimated to have been at risk. Example is patient
survival /after one year dx for breast cancer is 95%.. Correct
Answers Life table method
"Tumor extends through the bowel wall into the serosa"
What is another term for serosa? Correct Answers Visceral
peritoneum
1st leading cause of cancer death for Women Correct Answers
Lung is the first breast is the second
autopsy at death classification Correct Answers denoted with
"a" prefix aT aN aM at time of death
Breast pathological prognostic stage group tip for bone mets
Correct Answers If the patient has bone mets, no info about
lymph nodes or prgnostic studies matters. Patient is
automatically stage IV
, circulating tumor cells (CTCs) and disseminated tumor cells
(DTCs) Correct Answers CTCs are found in blood and DTCs
are found in organs and micro metastsis in bone marroww
-assigned with (i+) suffix cM0(i+)
classification of no signs of distant metastais Correct Answers
Assign cM0. There is no pMO or MX classification.
Classifying non-hodgkins lymphoma Correct Answers The
World Heatlh Organization (WHO)
Found in both b cells and T cells. B cell is more common
Diffuse large b cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most aggressive
Indolent lymphomas grow slowly and most common is follicular
lymphoma
Classifying synchronous primary tumors in a single organ
Correct Answers When muliple invasvive tumors of same
histology present in one organ:
-Tumor with hightest Tcatgore and stage and (m)suffix is used
-example pT3(m) N0 M0
-Not used for in situ cancer or mixed invasive and in situ, or
multiple foci of in situ
Colon prognostic factors Correct Answers KRAS, NRAS, and
BRAF molecular tests to acess HER2 protein
change in NTRK gene
Serum CEA levels
Circumferential resection margin (CRM)
Tumor Regression score
