CTR Exam Practice Test

Cancer registry monitoring of facility case completeness should be performed - Answer- On an ongoing basis __________________ staging provides a more precise description of the patient's extent of disease. - Answer- Pathological (staging) Reference: CRM3 Section 3, Cancer Staging 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 Cancer registry monitoring of facility case completeness should be performed - Answer- On an ongoing basis Routine and automated edit checks should be applied to ___________% of a registry's cases. - Answer- 100% 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. According to the CoC standard, the maximum number of cases to be evaluated, annually, are: - Answer- 300 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