Ctr Exam Verified Solutions

R EXAM VERIFIED SOLUTIONS Supraglottis, glottis and subglottis are subsites of the: - ANSWER Larynx The inpatient medical record disease index is most useful for which Cancer Registry Activity? - ANSWER Casefinding Ann Arbor Staging System - ANSWER Malignant Lymphoma Integumentary - ANSWER Skin A hormonal agent - ANSWER Tamoxifen A classification for non-hodkins lymphoma? - ANSWER Follicular small cleaved cell and large cell A lymphoma would most likely arise in? - ANSWER Waldeyers ring Lymph node chains behind the knees? - ANSWER Popliteal CEA is used for which cancer? - ANSWER Colon A neoplastic disease characterized by an excess of red blood cells is known as: - ANSWER Polycythemia Vera Which form of chemoembolization is not coded as treatment? - ANSWER Presurgical emboliation of hypervascular tumors such as mengiomas The laterality of a midline tumor in a paired organ site should be coded as: - ANSWER 5-midline Who is responsible for establishing the attendance requirements for the cancer conferences? - ANSWER Cancer Committee A disaster recovery plan is - ANSWER A way to make sure that computerized registry data is backed up every night and is easily recoverable. The best source for casefinding is: - ANSWER Pathology reports The 5 key components of an approved cancer program: - ANSWER Cancer Committee, Conferences, Quality Improvement, Cancer Registry and Clinical Services. A program receives non-accreditation at survey if there are ____ deficincies - ANSWER 8 An example of a protected health information in a cancer abstract is: - ANSWER Name of patient The COC requires that cases submitted to the NCDB for the most recent accession year must satisfy the established criteria by ________? - ANSWER As designated in the Call for Data. The date of diagnosis for a patient diagnosed in utero: - ANSWER Is the actual date of diagnosis. If a patient is multiracial and one of the races is Hawaiian: - ANSWER Hawaiian should be coded as race number one. One of the reasons for coding if cases were diagnosed by ambiguous terminology is: - ANSWER To better understand how frequently these terms are used for diagnosis. A cancer registrar who is abstracting can be the coordinator of: - ANSWER Cancer Registry quality control The first course of treatment consists of - ANSWER All Cancer-directed treatment regardless of where it takes place. The accession number - ANSWER Never changes even if the reference date changes A patient is in the registry database with a dx of prostate cancer. Now he has a diagnosis of Meningioma. His second sequence number is: - ANSWER 60 Sequence number for Brain Cancers - ANSWER 60 Most active organization in the US for the establishment and approval of hospital cancer programs - ANSWER Commission on Cancer