ODS Exam Prep
(2026-2027)
Complete Questions and Answers(Verified) |
Updated | Grade A+
,Accredited COC registries submit date to? State cancer registry & NCDB (on annual basis)
SEER Surveillance, Epidemiology, End Results
Catchment area a specific geographic area for which a cancer registry collects all cancer cases and
maintains population-based information.
ACS American Cancer Society
CAP College of American Pathologist
NCCN National comprehensive cancer network
ASCO American Society of Clinical Oncology
OVAC One Voice Against Cancer
The Central Tumor Registry of the United States B. Non-population-based central registry
Department of Defense is an example of a:
A. Hospital/Institution-based cancer registry
B. Non-population-based central registry
C. Population-based central registry
D. Specialty registry
Where do Cancer Registry get their authority? from state laws and regulation
a portion of funding for state registries comes from either CDC NPCR or NCI SEER
or both
_______ and ________ have minimum requirements for NPCR and SEER
registries which they fund
Reportability
Data items
Timeliness
Completeness
Accuracy
Central registries may have additional requirements for
reporting facilities. ****See Ch. 12 CRM
FERPA Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974. One of the first federal laws to
provide specific, statutory protection for patient privacy.
All cases for a diagnosis year must be submitted to the 6 months
central registry no later than ______after diagnosis.
,The process of converting an address at diagnosis into Geocoding
analyzable data is known as ________. It consists of
matching addressses against reference data containing
latitude and longitude coordinates for residential
addresses.
The __________ is responsible for enforcing both the Office for Civil Rights (OCR)
Privacy Rule and the Security Rule.
HIPAA Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act was signed in to law in 1996.
Governs how PHI (protected health infpormation) may be used, by whom, and for
what purposes.
HIPAA Privacy Rule -See Ch. 4 CRM Law that regulates the use and disclosure of patients' protected health information
(PHI). Went into effect in 2003. Sets limits & conditions on the uses & disclosures
that may be made of such information without Patient authorization.
Medical data that are combined without patient identifiers Aggregate data
are: CRM: page 71
A. Aggregate data
B. Confidential data
C. Population-based data
D. Unusable data
Which of the following information must healthcare All of the above
organizations protect? CRM: page 66-71
A. Employee information
B. Individually identifiable patient helath information
C. informaton about the organization
D. All of the above
Which of the following is a permissible disclosure of To another registry for follow-up purposes
confidential patient information from the cancer registry? CRM: page 70-71
A. To a facility not involved with the patient's care
B. To another registry for follow-up purposes
C. To the patient
D. To the patient's attorney
What is the name of the organization that began collecting NCI SEER Program
cancer data in 1973? CRM: Page 30
A. ACoS CoC
B. CDC NPCR
C. NAACCR
D. NCI SEER Program
Which of the following organizations receive data All of the above
submissions from central registries in the United States? CRM: page 9-10
A. The CDC National Program of Cancer Registries
(NPCR)
B. The NCI SEER Program
C. NAACCR
D. All of the above
What type of cancer registry is designed to determine Population-based data
cancer patterns among various populations, monitor CRM; Page 9-10
cancer trends over time, and evaluate cancer control
efforts?
A. Familial
B. Hospital-based
C. Population-based data
D. Specialty
, What is the nationally recognized clinical oncology National Cancer Data Base (NCDB)
database for accredited cancer programs in the United CRM: page 23
States?
A. GLOBOCAN
B. National Cancer Data Base (NCDB)
C. National Program of Cancer Registries
D. SEER Program
HIPAA and other regulations give patients the right to: Review their own medical records kept by the organization
A. Review any of the organization's business recocrds on CRM: page 68
them
B. Review central cancer registry information on them
C. Review informaton on them in the cancer registry
D. Review their own medical records kept by the
organization
Which of the following is NOT a program related to ACoS? ASCO
A. ASCO CRM: page 20-23
B. NCDB
C. NAPBC
D. NAPRC
E. AJCC
Central registry XY manually evaluates every 10th abstract visual editing
from each batch of abstracts submitted to them by CRM: page 207
reporting hospitals. This process is:
A. Casefinding
B. reabtracting
C. record consolidation
D. visual editing
A state central registry received multiple abstracts for the record consolidation
same patient with the same tumor. A new abstract was CRM: page 185-186
created using the best information from each of the
multiple abstracts. Creating the new record is part of which
process?
A. Death Clearance
B. Patient linkage
C. record consolidation
D. Tumor linkage
The Los Angeles County Cancer Surveillance Program Population-based central cancer registry
collects and analyzes information on all new cancer CRM: page 9
diagnoses made among residents of the County. It is an
example of a:
A. Facility based cancer registry
B. Non-population-based central cancer registry
C. Population-based central cancer registry
D. Specialty registry
Population-based central cancer registries collect follow-up Cancer patient survival
information so that what can be calculated and analyzed CRM: page 163
for the catchment area?
A. Cancer patient survival
B. Incidence
C. Patients lost to follow-Up
D. Prevalence
The same patient is reported a central registry by two Tumor linkage
different reporting facilities. What process will the central CRM: page 189-190
registry use to determine if the two records are the same
primary or two different primaries?
A. Patient linkage
B. Tumor linkage
C. Consolidation
D. Edits
(2026-2027)
Complete Questions and Answers(Verified) |
Updated | Grade A+
,Accredited COC registries submit date to? State cancer registry & NCDB (on annual basis)
SEER Surveillance, Epidemiology, End Results
Catchment area a specific geographic area for which a cancer registry collects all cancer cases and
maintains population-based information.
ACS American Cancer Society
CAP College of American Pathologist
NCCN National comprehensive cancer network
ASCO American Society of Clinical Oncology
OVAC One Voice Against Cancer
The Central Tumor Registry of the United States B. Non-population-based central registry
Department of Defense is an example of a:
A. Hospital/Institution-based cancer registry
B. Non-population-based central registry
C. Population-based central registry
D. Specialty registry
Where do Cancer Registry get their authority? from state laws and regulation
a portion of funding for state registries comes from either CDC NPCR or NCI SEER
or both
_______ and ________ have minimum requirements for NPCR and SEER
registries which they fund
Reportability
Data items
Timeliness
Completeness
Accuracy
Central registries may have additional requirements for
reporting facilities. ****See Ch. 12 CRM
FERPA Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974. One of the first federal laws to
provide specific, statutory protection for patient privacy.
All cases for a diagnosis year must be submitted to the 6 months
central registry no later than ______after diagnosis.
,The process of converting an address at diagnosis into Geocoding
analyzable data is known as ________. It consists of
matching addressses against reference data containing
latitude and longitude coordinates for residential
addresses.
The __________ is responsible for enforcing both the Office for Civil Rights (OCR)
Privacy Rule and the Security Rule.
HIPAA Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act was signed in to law in 1996.
Governs how PHI (protected health infpormation) may be used, by whom, and for
what purposes.
HIPAA Privacy Rule -See Ch. 4 CRM Law that regulates the use and disclosure of patients' protected health information
(PHI). Went into effect in 2003. Sets limits & conditions on the uses & disclosures
that may be made of such information without Patient authorization.
Medical data that are combined without patient identifiers Aggregate data
are: CRM: page 71
A. Aggregate data
B. Confidential data
C. Population-based data
D. Unusable data
Which of the following information must healthcare All of the above
organizations protect? CRM: page 66-71
A. Employee information
B. Individually identifiable patient helath information
C. informaton about the organization
D. All of the above
Which of the following is a permissible disclosure of To another registry for follow-up purposes
confidential patient information from the cancer registry? CRM: page 70-71
A. To a facility not involved with the patient's care
B. To another registry for follow-up purposes
C. To the patient
D. To the patient's attorney
What is the name of the organization that began collecting NCI SEER Program
cancer data in 1973? CRM: Page 30
A. ACoS CoC
B. CDC NPCR
C. NAACCR
D. NCI SEER Program
Which of the following organizations receive data All of the above
submissions from central registries in the United States? CRM: page 9-10
A. The CDC National Program of Cancer Registries
(NPCR)
B. The NCI SEER Program
C. NAACCR
D. All of the above
What type of cancer registry is designed to determine Population-based data
cancer patterns among various populations, monitor CRM; Page 9-10
cancer trends over time, and evaluate cancer control
efforts?
A. Familial
B. Hospital-based
C. Population-based data
D. Specialty
, What is the nationally recognized clinical oncology National Cancer Data Base (NCDB)
database for accredited cancer programs in the United CRM: page 23
States?
A. GLOBOCAN
B. National Cancer Data Base (NCDB)
C. National Program of Cancer Registries
D. SEER Program
HIPAA and other regulations give patients the right to: Review their own medical records kept by the organization
A. Review any of the organization's business recocrds on CRM: page 68
them
B. Review central cancer registry information on them
C. Review informaton on them in the cancer registry
D. Review their own medical records kept by the
organization
Which of the following is NOT a program related to ACoS? ASCO
A. ASCO CRM: page 20-23
B. NCDB
C. NAPBC
D. NAPRC
E. AJCC
Central registry XY manually evaluates every 10th abstract visual editing
from each batch of abstracts submitted to them by CRM: page 207
reporting hospitals. This process is:
A. Casefinding
B. reabtracting
C. record consolidation
D. visual editing
A state central registry received multiple abstracts for the record consolidation
same patient with the same tumor. A new abstract was CRM: page 185-186
created using the best information from each of the
multiple abstracts. Creating the new record is part of which
process?
A. Death Clearance
B. Patient linkage
C. record consolidation
D. Tumor linkage
The Los Angeles County Cancer Surveillance Program Population-based central cancer registry
collects and analyzes information on all new cancer CRM: page 9
diagnoses made among residents of the County. It is an
example of a:
A. Facility based cancer registry
B. Non-population-based central cancer registry
C. Population-based central cancer registry
D. Specialty registry
Population-based central cancer registries collect follow-up Cancer patient survival
information so that what can be calculated and analyzed CRM: page 163
for the catchment area?
A. Cancer patient survival
B. Incidence
C. Patients lost to follow-Up
D. Prevalence
The same patient is reported a central registry by two Tumor linkage
different reporting facilities. What process will the central CRM: page 189-190
registry use to determine if the two records are the same
primary or two different primaries?
A. Patient linkage
B. Tumor linkage
C. Consolidation
D. Edits
