CTR Exam Practice Test Questions With Complete
Solutions
__________________ staging provides a more precise
description of the patient's extent of disease. Correct Answers
Pathological (staging)
Reference: CRM3 Section 3, Cancer Staging
90% patient follow-up information should be maintained:
Correct Answers Every year for all eligible analytic patients
diagnosed within the last 5 years.
90% patient follow-up information should be maintained:
Correct Answers Every year for all eligible analytic patients
diagnosed within the last 5 years.
A capital budget is prepared for Correct Answers Purchase of
major equipment
A characteristic of a histogram is Correct Answers The height
of each bar is proportional to the number of observations
A cohort study where the members are identified before the
outcome occurs is known as a Correct Answers Prospective
study
A cystadenocarcinoma would most likely arise in which of the
following organs? Correct Answers Ovary
, A formal procedure to check data accuracy against source
documents is called: Correct Answers Reabstracting study
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 Correct Answers d. All of the above
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 Correct Answers d. All of the above
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?
Correct Answers 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.
Solutions
__________________ staging provides a more precise
description of the patient's extent of disease. Correct Answers
Pathological (staging)
Reference: CRM3 Section 3, Cancer Staging
90% patient follow-up information should be maintained:
Correct Answers Every year for all eligible analytic patients
diagnosed within the last 5 years.
90% patient follow-up information should be maintained:
Correct Answers Every year for all eligible analytic patients
diagnosed within the last 5 years.
A capital budget is prepared for Correct Answers Purchase of
major equipment
A characteristic of a histogram is Correct Answers The height
of each bar is proportional to the number of observations
A cohort study where the members are identified before the
outcome occurs is known as a Correct Answers Prospective
study
A cystadenocarcinoma would most likely arise in which of the
following organs? Correct Answers Ovary
, A formal procedure to check data accuracy against source
documents is called: Correct Answers Reabstracting study
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 Correct Answers d. All of the above
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 Correct Answers d. All of the above
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?
Correct Answers 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.
