SEER CTR Operations Exam UPDATED
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Examples of population-based registries are
A. National Cancer Data Base.
B. Central Brain Tumor Registry of the United States (CBTRUS).
C. Both (a) and (b)
D. Neither (a) nor (b) - CORRECT ANSWER D. Neither (a) nor (b)
Examples of nonanalytic cases for a typical hospital registry include
A. Autopsy only cases.
B. Cases diagnosed elsewhere and provided only palliative care in lieu of first course
treatment at your facility.
C. Both (a) and (b)
D. Neither (a) nor (b) - CORRECT ANSWER A. Autopsy only cases.
Non-analytic cases for a facility are defined as cases who were diagnosed and received all of
first course therapy elsewhere prior to the date of referral to the facility. These cases include
patients treated for recurrence or progression of disease only, patients for whom the facility
provided only a treatment plan or a second opinion regarding the diagnosis and/or treatment
options available, as well as patients diagnosed at autopsy, per death certificate, or who only
had pathology slides read at the facility.
Analytic cases - CORRECT ANSWER those cases that were diagnosed at the reporting
hospital/ facility or received any first course treatment at facility
class of case 00-22
Which organization provides the guidelines used by central registries to determine the
residence of the patient at the time of diagnosis?
,A. Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program
B. National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR)
C. U.S. Postal Service
D. U.S. Census Bureau - CORRECT ANSWER D. U.S. Census Bureau
Rules must also be established to determine who the members of that population are. The
goal is to have the central registry use the same rules to establish a patient's residency at the
time of diagnosis as the rules used by the Census Bureau in counting the population. In
addition, a population-based registry must have rules for determining residency of part-time
residents, prisoners, institutionalized persons, homeless persons, military personnel, and
students.
Updating casefinding programs that use either the ICD-9-CM or ICD-10-CM disease indices
to identify potential reportable cases should be done annually and made effective for
admissions during which month?
A. January
B. June
C. October
D. December - CORRECT ANSWER C. October
Updates to the ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM coding manuals are done annually in October.
Codes from these manuals are used to generate a disease index that identifies the diseases and
conditions diagnosed in patients. To ensure that all reportable cases are included in the
disease index requested from facilities, it is important to review and update required codes
needed by the registry on an annual basis.
Casefinding timeliness in a central registry is determined by the
A. Planned use of the data.
B. Agency(ies) to which the central registry reports.
C. Both (a) and (b)
D. Neither (a) nor (b) - CORRECT ANSWER C. Both (a) and (b)
,The time frame for casefinding and reporting for central registries is determined by both the
planned use of the data and the agency to which the central registry reports.
The purpose of central registry death clearance activities is
A. To update mortality and other information on cases that exist in the registry database.
B. To be used as a casefinding source.
C. Both (a) and (b)
D. Neither (a) nor (b) - CORRECT ANSWER C. Both (a) and (b)
Death clearance is referred to as the use of mortality files to update death and other missing
information on cases that exist in the registry database and to increase incidence reporting
completeness by using these files as a casefinding source.
What organization(s) obtain death certificates from governmental vital statistics agencies for
the purpose of identifying missed incidence cases?
A. Central registries
B. Hospital registries
C. Both (a) and (b)
D. Neither (a) nor (b) - CORRECT ANSWER A. Central registries
What is the correct order in which pre-abstracting activities are performed?
A. Identify potential reportable cases; determine whether the case is a new or separate
primary; and gather source documents
B. Gather source documents; determine whether the case is a new or separate primary; and
conduct quality control on the data
C. Determine whether the case is a new or separate primary; gather the source documents;
and conduct quality control on the data
D. Identify potential reportable cases;gather source documents and determine whether the
case is a new or separate primary - CORRECT ANSWER D. D. Identify potential
reportable cases;gather source documents and determine whether the case is a new or
separate primary
, What are the data quality characteristics of a cancer registry?
A. Monitoring, completeness and timeliness
B. Accuracy, timeliness and monitoring
C. Monitoring, accuracy and completeness
D. Accuracy, timeliness and completeness - CORRECT ANSWER D. Accuracy,
timeliness and completeness
Generally, abstracted data is classified into five groups. In which group would each of the
following be classified: 1) diagnostic confirmation, 2) class of case, and 3) date of first
recurrence?
A. 1) Cancer identification, 2) patient identification and 3) outcomes
B. 1) Outcomes, 2) patient identification and 3) cancer identification
C. 1) Cancer identification, 2) cancer identification, and 3) cancer identification
D. 1) Cancer identification, 2) cancer identification and 3) outcomes - CORRECT
ANSWER D. 1) Cancer identification, 2) cancer identification and 3) outcomes
Patient identification fields include: - CORRECT ANSWER accession number,
sequence number,
social security number,
race, sex,
date of birth,
geographic location,
physicians and institutions involved in the care of the patient.
Cancer identification fields include: - CORRECT ANSWER class of case,
date of initial diagnosis,
primary site,
histology,
behavior code,
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Examples of population-based registries are
A. National Cancer Data Base.
B. Central Brain Tumor Registry of the United States (CBTRUS).
C. Both (a) and (b)
D. Neither (a) nor (b) - CORRECT ANSWER D. Neither (a) nor (b)
Examples of nonanalytic cases for a typical hospital registry include
A. Autopsy only cases.
B. Cases diagnosed elsewhere and provided only palliative care in lieu of first course
treatment at your facility.
C. Both (a) and (b)
D. Neither (a) nor (b) - CORRECT ANSWER A. Autopsy only cases.
Non-analytic cases for a facility are defined as cases who were diagnosed and received all of
first course therapy elsewhere prior to the date of referral to the facility. These cases include
patients treated for recurrence or progression of disease only, patients for whom the facility
provided only a treatment plan or a second opinion regarding the diagnosis and/or treatment
options available, as well as patients diagnosed at autopsy, per death certificate, or who only
had pathology slides read at the facility.
Analytic cases - CORRECT ANSWER those cases that were diagnosed at the reporting
hospital/ facility or received any first course treatment at facility
class of case 00-22
Which organization provides the guidelines used by central registries to determine the
residence of the patient at the time of diagnosis?
,A. Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program
B. National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR)
C. U.S. Postal Service
D. U.S. Census Bureau - CORRECT ANSWER D. U.S. Census Bureau
Rules must also be established to determine who the members of that population are. The
goal is to have the central registry use the same rules to establish a patient's residency at the
time of diagnosis as the rules used by the Census Bureau in counting the population. In
addition, a population-based registry must have rules for determining residency of part-time
residents, prisoners, institutionalized persons, homeless persons, military personnel, and
students.
Updating casefinding programs that use either the ICD-9-CM or ICD-10-CM disease indices
to identify potential reportable cases should be done annually and made effective for
admissions during which month?
A. January
B. June
C. October
D. December - CORRECT ANSWER C. October
Updates to the ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM coding manuals are done annually in October.
Codes from these manuals are used to generate a disease index that identifies the diseases and
conditions diagnosed in patients. To ensure that all reportable cases are included in the
disease index requested from facilities, it is important to review and update required codes
needed by the registry on an annual basis.
Casefinding timeliness in a central registry is determined by the
A. Planned use of the data.
B. Agency(ies) to which the central registry reports.
C. Both (a) and (b)
D. Neither (a) nor (b) - CORRECT ANSWER C. Both (a) and (b)
,The time frame for casefinding and reporting for central registries is determined by both the
planned use of the data and the agency to which the central registry reports.
The purpose of central registry death clearance activities is
A. To update mortality and other information on cases that exist in the registry database.
B. To be used as a casefinding source.
C. Both (a) and (b)
D. Neither (a) nor (b) - CORRECT ANSWER C. Both (a) and (b)
Death clearance is referred to as the use of mortality files to update death and other missing
information on cases that exist in the registry database and to increase incidence reporting
completeness by using these files as a casefinding source.
What organization(s) obtain death certificates from governmental vital statistics agencies for
the purpose of identifying missed incidence cases?
A. Central registries
B. Hospital registries
C. Both (a) and (b)
D. Neither (a) nor (b) - CORRECT ANSWER A. Central registries
What is the correct order in which pre-abstracting activities are performed?
A. Identify potential reportable cases; determine whether the case is a new or separate
primary; and gather source documents
B. Gather source documents; determine whether the case is a new or separate primary; and
conduct quality control on the data
C. Determine whether the case is a new or separate primary; gather the source documents;
and conduct quality control on the data
D. Identify potential reportable cases;gather source documents and determine whether the
case is a new or separate primary - CORRECT ANSWER D. D. Identify potential
reportable cases;gather source documents and determine whether the case is a new or
separate primary
, What are the data quality characteristics of a cancer registry?
A. Monitoring, completeness and timeliness
B. Accuracy, timeliness and monitoring
C. Monitoring, accuracy and completeness
D. Accuracy, timeliness and completeness - CORRECT ANSWER D. Accuracy,
timeliness and completeness
Generally, abstracted data is classified into five groups. In which group would each of the
following be classified: 1) diagnostic confirmation, 2) class of case, and 3) date of first
recurrence?
A. 1) Cancer identification, 2) patient identification and 3) outcomes
B. 1) Outcomes, 2) patient identification and 3) cancer identification
C. 1) Cancer identification, 2) cancer identification, and 3) cancer identification
D. 1) Cancer identification, 2) cancer identification and 3) outcomes - CORRECT
ANSWER D. 1) Cancer identification, 2) cancer identification and 3) outcomes
Patient identification fields include: - CORRECT ANSWER accession number,
sequence number,
social security number,
race, sex,
date of birth,
geographic location,
physicians and institutions involved in the care of the patient.
Cancer identification fields include: - CORRECT ANSWER class of case,
date of initial diagnosis,
primary site,
histology,
behavior code,
