ACTUAL UPDATED QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Define Cancer Registration. - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅an information system designed
for the collection, storage, management, and analysis of data on persons with cancer
How do organizations such as ACS know what the recommended age for mammograms -
CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Data is collected in an effort to control the disease and increase
the scientific knowledge of cancer. Registries provide the necessary information that is used
to fight the disease
State-based cancer registries - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅are data systems that collect,
manage, and analyze data about cancer cases and cancer deaths.
In each state, medical facilities (including hospitals, physicians' offices, therapeutic radiation
facilities, freestanding surgical centers, and pathology laboratories) report these data to a
central cancer registry.
State cancer registries are designed to— - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Monitor cancer trends
over time.
Determine cancer patterns in various populations. Guide planning and evaluation of cancer
control programs.
Help set priorities for allocating health resources. Advance clinical, epidemiologic, and health
services research.
Provide information for database of cancer incidence
What is cancer? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅a phrase that covers many diseases with a
variety of causes which result from:
Genetic predisposition, lifestyle choices, environmental factors, a combination of all of the
above
,What is a cancer registry? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅a cancer registry is an information
system designed for the collection, storage, management, and analysis of data on persons
with cancer.
What are the functions of the state cancer registries? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Monitor
cancer trends over time.
Determine cancer patterns in various populations. Guide planning and evaluation of cancer
control programs.
Help set priorities for allocating health resources. Advance clinical, epidemiologic, and health
services research.
Provide information for national database of cancer incidence.
United States Cancer Statistics (USCS) - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Since 2002, CDC and
the National Cancer Institute (NCI) have combined their data sources to publish annual
federal cancer statistics in the United States Cancer Statistics: Incidence and Mortality report.
Produced in collaboration with the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries,
this year's report includes cancer incidence data from registries covering 100% of the U.S.
population, and mortality data from all states and the District of Columbia.
Cancer Incidence in Five Continents - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Published by the
International Agency for Research on Cancer, Cancer Incidence in Five Continents is a
recognized reference source on the incidence of cancer in populations around the world.
Software for Collecting and Processing Data - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Since 1996, CDC
has developed Microsoft® Windows®-based software programs to make the process of
collecting and processing data easier for medical facilities and registries. The Registry Plus™
suite consists of nine programs that may be customized for routine or special study data
collection. CDC distributes these software programs, which are compliant with national
standards, free of charge to the public health community.
Cancer Surveillance Research - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅To improve the quality of data
in cancer registries and enhance the data's usefulness, CDC has initiated many cancer
surveillance research activities.
NPCR's cancer monitoring activities include - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅1. Collecting and
analyzing registry data and preparing the United States Cancer Statistics Web application. 2.
Continuing collaborations with national partner organizations and state registries on
, publications using registry data. 3.Assessing the completeness and accuracy of data required
to be collected by NPCR registries, including data about race and ethnicity, stage at
diagnosis, and treatment.
What causes cancer? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Genetic predisposition, lifestyle choices,
environmental factors, and/or a combination of all
Cancer in its many forms represents what? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅1. A major public
health issue 2.Challenge for individuals 3. Challenge for healthcare industry
When and where was the oldest description of cancer discovered? - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅Discovered in Egypt in 1600BC when seven papyri were discovered relating
earliest known descriptions of cancer.
Of the seven papyri found in Egypt, two dated cancer back to when? - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅Two papyri contained descriptions of cancer and were written about 1600BC
but the sources dated as early as 2500BC
What were the two papyri describing cancer called? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Edwin
Smith papyri & George Ebers papyri
What did the Edwin Smith payri decribe? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Smith papyrus
describes surgery relating eight cases of tumors or ulcers of the breast that were treated by
cauterization, with a tool called "the fire drill". The writing say "there is no treatment"
What does the George Ebers papyi describe? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Provides outline
of treatments: pharmacologic, mechanical, magical
Where does the origin of the word cancer come from? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅the
Greek physician Hippocrates (430 to 370 BC)
carcinos & carcinoma were word to describe what? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅non-ulcer
forming and ulcer forming tumers