Cancer Registry Management ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

Cancer Registry Management ACTUAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Cancer registry - CORRECT ANSWERS A system designed to collect information about the
occurrence of cancer, the types of cancers that occur and their locations within the body, the extent of
cancer at the time of diagnosis, and the kinds of treatments that patients receive



- Hospital based

- Population based

-Specialty cancer registry - CORRECT ANSWERS What are the 3 min types of cancer registries?



Administrative, research, or cancer control - CORRECT ANSWERS Depending on the operators,
population-based registries can be....?



Hospital-based - CORRECT ANSWERS Which type of cancer registry is the foundation of caner
surveillance?



insitiution-based registry - CORRECT ANSWERS What is another word for a hospital-based
registry?



- May be single hospital registries or collective (must-institution) registries

- Maintains data on all patients diagnosed and/or treated for cancer at a particular facility or facilities -
CORRECT ANSWERS Key points for a hospital based cancer registry



To improve patient care by evaluation of treatment outcomes. - CORRECT ANSWERS What is the
primary goal of a hospital-based cancer registry?



TRUE

,**CoC approved hospital registries are required to collect active lifetime follow-up data on all patients I
their registies - CORRECT ANSWERS True or False; Most population-based registries do not
collect active follow-up information.



Population-based caner registry - CORRECT ANSWERS Cancer registries that collect data on all
cancer cases a defined population.



1. Information from treatment facilities (hospitals, cancer centers, private clinics & hospices)

2. Information from diagnostic services, such as pathology laboratories

3. Death certificate information from the vital statistics registration system - CORRECT
ANSWERS What are the main sources of information for population-based registries?



epidemiology and public health - CORRECT ANSWERS State and national population-based or
central cancer registries (CCRs) have emphasis on what?



- local cancer control programs

- patient care programs

-administrative programs

-cancer research programs - CORRECT ANSWERS Wha are the 4 advantaged of state central
cancer registries?



1973 - CORRECT ANSWERS In what year did the SEER Program began collecting cancer cases?



Patient demographics, primary tumor site, tumor morphology, detailed stage at diagnosis, 1st course of
treatment, & active follow-up and vital status - CORRECT ANSWERS The SEER program
registries routinely collect what type of data to produce estimates of cancer incidence?



Specialty cancer registry - CORRECT ANSWERS Cancer registries established to collect and
maintain data from specific facilities such as the ACos CoC's National Cancer Data Base (NCDB), on a
particular type of cancer site such as the Central Brain Tumor Registry of the United States (CBTRUS),
or to collect data on familial cancers such as the Gilda Radner Familial Ovarian Cancer Registry.

,CoC's NCDB - CORRECT ANSWERS The oldest and largest special population- based registry



data set - CORRECT ANSWERS collect of items maintain by a registry



standard data set - CORRECT ANSWERS the collection of standard data items defined as the
minimal data set required by am applicable standard-setting organization



data dictionary - CORRECT ANSWERS defines the data items in a registry data set, including
coding instructions, code definitions, and the code options.



comprehensive data dictionary - CORRECT ANSWERS Includes a history of data item changes,
identifies applicable edits, and provides guidelines or examples for item usage



-Demographic

-Cancer Identification

-Hospital Specific

-Stage/Prognostic Factor

-Treatment-First course

-Treatment-Subsequent and Other

-Follow-up/Recurrence/Death

-Patient-Confidential

-Hospital-Confidential

-Other-Confidential

-Text - CORRECT ANSWERS General types of data items maintained by a registry



demographic (data item) - CORRECT ANSWERS analytic categories of patients (e.g. age, sex, and
ethnicity, residential location, occupation)



Cancer identification (data item) - CORRECT ANSWERS Anatomic point of origin and the
pathologic nature of the tumor, sequence independent primary tumors, screening information

, Hospital Specific (data item) - CORRECT ANSWERS Hx of patient contact ad case management
by a specific facility, local record identification.



Stage/Prognostic Factors (data item) - CORRECT ANSWERS All forms of staging, tumor markers,
secondary diagnoses



Treatment- First course (data item) - CORRECT ANSWERS First- course treatment dates and
description



Treatment-Subsequent and Other (data item) - CORRECT ANSWERS Care delivered fir recurrent
or progressing cancer



Follow-up/ Recurrence/Death (data item) - CORRECT ANSWERS Date of follow-up, recurrence
date and type, status of patient, date and cause of death



Patient-confidential (data item) - CORRECT ANSWERS Confidential patient information used
track the individual patient (e.g. patient name)



Hospital-Confidential (data item) - CORRECT ANSWERS Confidential information about specific
hospitals and hospital personnel (e.g. institution referred from); collected by central registries from source
registries



Other- Confidential (data item) - CORRECT ANSWERS Other confidential information (e.g
physician identifiers)



text (data item) - CORRECT ANSWERS NArratie support for coded information



Record Identification - CORRECT ANSWERS Items used to identify the layout and content of the
record being transmitted; the recipient registry may maintain information in these fields in its own data
set.