CTR EXAM PRACTICE TEST
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SOLVED CORRECTLY
LATEST UPDATE GRADED A+
Question 1.
Cancer registry monitoring of facility case completeness should be performed
ANSWER
On an ongoing basis
Question 2.
__________________ staging provides a more precise description of the patient's extent of disease.
ANSWER
Pathological (staging)
Reference: CRM3 Section 3, Cancer Staging
Question 3.
A major quality of NAACCR is:
a. Provide standards for coding and staging b. Certify registries that meet national data quality
standards c. Train and educate registry staff d. All of the above
ANSWER
d. All of the above
Question 4.
Routine and automated edit checks should be applied to ___________% of a registry's cases.
ANSWER
100%
, Question 5.
A patient has dye injected for a sentinel node procedure. The incision is made in the nodal area and a 1
cm blue node is identified and a 1.5 cm node next to the blue node that did not take up dye. There is
another 1.8 cm blue node identified and a node next to it that is 1.4 cm that did not take up the dye. All
four nodes are removed, two with the blue dye and two without. How is the scope of regional lymph
node surgery coded?
ANSWER
Sentinel node biopsy
Reference: AJCC 8th Edition, Chapter 1
Sentinel node biopsy because removing additional abnormal nodes during the sentinel node
procedure does not change this from being a sentinel node procedure.
Question 6.
According to the CoC standard, the maximum number of cases to be evaluated, annually, are:
ANSWER
300
Question 7.
The cancer committee monitors the program's Estimated Performance Rates (EPR) for all quality
measures using..
ANSWER
CP3R
Question 8.
Clinical staging
ANSWER
Includes any information obtained about the extent of cancer before the start of definitive
treatment.
Reference: AJCC 8th Edition, Chapter 1
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SOLVED CORRECTLY
LATEST UPDATE GRADED A+
Question 1.
Cancer registry monitoring of facility case completeness should be performed
ANSWER
On an ongoing basis
Question 2.
__________________ staging provides a more precise description of the patient's extent of disease.
ANSWER
Pathological (staging)
Reference: CRM3 Section 3, Cancer Staging
Question 3.
A major quality of NAACCR is:
a. Provide standards for coding and staging b. Certify registries that meet national data quality
standards c. Train and educate registry staff d. All of the above
ANSWER
d. All of the above
Question 4.
Routine and automated edit checks should be applied to ___________% of a registry's cases.
ANSWER
100%
, Question 5.
A patient has dye injected for a sentinel node procedure. The incision is made in the nodal area and a 1
cm blue node is identified and a 1.5 cm node next to the blue node that did not take up dye. There is
another 1.8 cm blue node identified and a node next to it that is 1.4 cm that did not take up the dye. All
four nodes are removed, two with the blue dye and two without. How is the scope of regional lymph
node surgery coded?
ANSWER
Sentinel node biopsy
Reference: AJCC 8th Edition, Chapter 1
Sentinel node biopsy because removing additional abnormal nodes during the sentinel node
procedure does not change this from being a sentinel node procedure.
Question 6.
According to the CoC standard, the maximum number of cases to be evaluated, annually, are:
ANSWER
300
Question 7.
The cancer committee monitors the program's Estimated Performance Rates (EPR) for all quality
measures using..
ANSWER
CP3R
Question 8.
Clinical staging
ANSWER
Includes any information obtained about the extent of cancer before the start of definitive
treatment.
Reference: AJCC 8th Edition, Chapter 1