CTRN Practice Exam Prep Questions and
Verified Answers 2024
1. Which of the following is a permissible disclosure of confidential patient
information from the cancer registry?
a. to a facility not involved with the patient's care
b. to the pt
c. to another registry for f/u purposes
d. to the pt's attorney: To another registry for f/u purposes
2. What is a source of ca incidence & survival data from pop-based ca reg-
istries covering ~28% of US pop?
a. ACoS CoC
b. CDC NPCR
c. NAACCR
d. NCI SEER program: NCI SEER program
3. Medical data that are combined w/o pt identifiers are?
a. Aggregate data
b. Confidential data
c. Pop-based data
d. Unusable data: Aggregate data
4. Which of the following information must healthcare organizations protect?
a. employee information
b. information about the organization
c. individually identifiable pt health information
d. all the above: All the above
5. Terrie Tumor Registrar ompletes a productivity sheet at the end of each day
listing tasks completed that day. This is a form of:
a. budget
b. time motion study
c. step assessment
d. work flow chart: Time motion study
6. The use of password to verify that a person is who they purport to be before
they are granted access to confidential data is:
a. audit trail
b. encryption
c. firewall
,d. user authentication: User authetication
7. All of the state ca registries in the US are required to submit their data to:
a. the CDC National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR)
b. the NCI SEER Program
c. Either CDC/NPCR or NCI/SEER
d. None o fthe above: Eiither CDC/NPCR or NCI/SEER
,8. Caitlin Cancer Registrar is the cancer registry manager. She received a
budget for the registry from the office of the facility's chief financial officer
This type of budget is:
a. bottom-up
b. capital
c. operating
d. top-down: top-down
9. The organization that formulates & publishes systems to classify ca to
be used for selecting effective tx, determining prognosis, and evaluating ca
control measures in the:
a. AJCC
b. NAACCR
c. CoC
d. SEER PROGRAM: AJCC
10. Danielle Data Manager is preparing to submit data from the hospital cancer
registry to the state CR. What is used to facilitate the data exchange?
a. Firewall
b. NAACCR data exchange record layout
c. Record linkage
d. SEER program: NAACCR data exchange record layout
11. The CP of the medical center on XYZ Air Force Base submits their cases
to the Automated Central Tumor Registry (ACTUR) & to the NCDB. The CP has
a:
a. Hospital/institution-based ca registry
b. Network ca registry
c. non-pop based cancer registry
d. pop-based central cancer registry: Hospital/institution-based ca registry
12. The ability for a cancer registry to incorporate electronic data from an
external source into the registry and the ability for external recipients to
incorporate registry data for their use is:
a. interoperability
b. not permitted
c. semantic
d. syntactic: interoperability
13. What type of CR is designated to determine cancer patterns among various
pop, monitor ca trends over time, and evaluate ca control efforts?
a. familial
b. hospital-based
, c. pop-based
d. specialty: pop-based
14. What is the nationwide onc outcomes database for accrediated ca pro-
grams in the US?
a. GLOBOCAN
b. NCDB
c. NPCR
d. SEER Program: NCDB
15. HIPAA and other regulations give pts the right to:
a. Review any of the organization's business records on them
b. Review central ca registry information on them
c. Review information on them ca registry
d. Review their own medical records kept by the organization: Review their own
medical records kept by the organization
16. The resource ffor detailed specifications and codes for each data item in
the data exhange record layout is:
a. Cancer program standards
b. FORDS
c. NAACCR Volume II Data Standards and Data Dictionary
d. SEER Program Coding & Staging Manual: NAACCR Volume II Data Standards
& Data Dictionary
17. Lymph-vascular invasion is the presence of tumor cells in:
a. Distant mets sites
b. LN(s)
c. Lymphatic channels or blood vessels
d. The thymus: Lymphatic channels or blood vessels
18. The final dx on the path report documents Nottingham score of 8. The
primary site is most likely:
a. Brain
b. Breast
c. Kidney
d. Skin: Breast
19. Freestanding path labs may be a casefinding source for a:
a. Community hospital cancer program
b. NCDB
c. Network ca program
d. State central cancer registry: State central ca registry
20. Pt admitted to hospital on 2/1/16 w/ congestive heart failure. On 2/2/16
the pt had a CT that showed a mass in the lung, probably malig. On 2/3/16
Verified Answers 2024
1. Which of the following is a permissible disclosure of confidential patient
information from the cancer registry?
a. to a facility not involved with the patient's care
b. to the pt
c. to another registry for f/u purposes
d. to the pt's attorney: To another registry for f/u purposes
2. What is a source of ca incidence & survival data from pop-based ca reg-
istries covering ~28% of US pop?
a. ACoS CoC
b. CDC NPCR
c. NAACCR
d. NCI SEER program: NCI SEER program
3. Medical data that are combined w/o pt identifiers are?
a. Aggregate data
b. Confidential data
c. Pop-based data
d. Unusable data: Aggregate data
4. Which of the following information must healthcare organizations protect?
a. employee information
b. information about the organization
c. individually identifiable pt health information
d. all the above: All the above
5. Terrie Tumor Registrar ompletes a productivity sheet at the end of each day
listing tasks completed that day. This is a form of:
a. budget
b. time motion study
c. step assessment
d. work flow chart: Time motion study
6. The use of password to verify that a person is who they purport to be before
they are granted access to confidential data is:
a. audit trail
b. encryption
c. firewall
,d. user authentication: User authetication
7. All of the state ca registries in the US are required to submit their data to:
a. the CDC National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR)
b. the NCI SEER Program
c. Either CDC/NPCR or NCI/SEER
d. None o fthe above: Eiither CDC/NPCR or NCI/SEER
,8. Caitlin Cancer Registrar is the cancer registry manager. She received a
budget for the registry from the office of the facility's chief financial officer
This type of budget is:
a. bottom-up
b. capital
c. operating
d. top-down: top-down
9. The organization that formulates & publishes systems to classify ca to
be used for selecting effective tx, determining prognosis, and evaluating ca
control measures in the:
a. AJCC
b. NAACCR
c. CoC
d. SEER PROGRAM: AJCC
10. Danielle Data Manager is preparing to submit data from the hospital cancer
registry to the state CR. What is used to facilitate the data exchange?
a. Firewall
b. NAACCR data exchange record layout
c. Record linkage
d. SEER program: NAACCR data exchange record layout
11. The CP of the medical center on XYZ Air Force Base submits their cases
to the Automated Central Tumor Registry (ACTUR) & to the NCDB. The CP has
a:
a. Hospital/institution-based ca registry
b. Network ca registry
c. non-pop based cancer registry
d. pop-based central cancer registry: Hospital/institution-based ca registry
12. The ability for a cancer registry to incorporate electronic data from an
external source into the registry and the ability for external recipients to
incorporate registry data for their use is:
a. interoperability
b. not permitted
c. semantic
d. syntactic: interoperability
13. What type of CR is designated to determine cancer patterns among various
pop, monitor ca trends over time, and evaluate ca control efforts?
a. familial
b. hospital-based
, c. pop-based
d. specialty: pop-based
14. What is the nationwide onc outcomes database for accrediated ca pro-
grams in the US?
a. GLOBOCAN
b. NCDB
c. NPCR
d. SEER Program: NCDB
15. HIPAA and other regulations give pts the right to:
a. Review any of the organization's business records on them
b. Review central ca registry information on them
c. Review information on them ca registry
d. Review their own medical records kept by the organization: Review their own
medical records kept by the organization
16. The resource ffor detailed specifications and codes for each data item in
the data exhange record layout is:
a. Cancer program standards
b. FORDS
c. NAACCR Volume II Data Standards and Data Dictionary
d. SEER Program Coding & Staging Manual: NAACCR Volume II Data Standards
& Data Dictionary
17. Lymph-vascular invasion is the presence of tumor cells in:
a. Distant mets sites
b. LN(s)
c. Lymphatic channels or blood vessels
d. The thymus: Lymphatic channels or blood vessels
18. The final dx on the path report documents Nottingham score of 8. The
primary site is most likely:
a. Brain
b. Breast
c. Kidney
d. Skin: Breast
19. Freestanding path labs may be a casefinding source for a:
a. Community hospital cancer program
b. NCDB
c. Network ca program
d. State central cancer registry: State central ca registry
20. Pt admitted to hospital on 2/1/16 w/ congestive heart failure. On 2/2/16
the pt had a CT that showed a mass in the lung, probably malig. On 2/3/16
