2025 ODS Exam prep | Questions with 100% Correct
Answers 2025/2026 UPDATE | Verified Solutions
Q: Accredited COC registries submit date to?
Answer:
State cancer registry & NCBD (on annual basis)
Q: SEER
Answer:
Surveillance, Epidemiology, End Results
Q: Catchment area
Answer:
a specific geographic area for which a cancer registry collects all cancer cases
and maintains population-based information.
Q: ACS
Answer:
American Cancer Society
Q: CAP
Answer:
College of American Pathologist
Q: NCCN
Answer:
National comprehensive cancer network
Q: ASCO
Answer:
American Society of Clinical Oncology
Q: OVAC
Answer:
One Voice Against Cancer
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Q: The Central Tumor Registry of the United States 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
Answer:
B. Non-population-based central registry
Q: Where do Cancer Registry get their authority?
Answer:
from state laws and regulation
a portion of funding for state registries comes from either CDC NPCR or NCI SEER or both
Q: _______ and ________ have minimum requirements for registries which they fund
Reportability
Data items
Timeliness
Completeness
Accuracy
Central registries may have additional requirements for reporting facilities. ****See Ch. 12 CRM
Answer:
NPCR and SEER
Q: FERPA
Answer:
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974. One of the first federal laws to provide
specific, statutory protection for patient privacy.
Q: All cases for a diagnosis year must be submitted to the central registry no later than ______after
diagnosis.
Answer:
6 months
Q: The process of converting an address at diagnosis into analyzable data is known as ________. It
consists
of matching addressses against reference data containing latitude and longitude coordinates for
residential addresses.
Answer:
Geocoding
Q: The __________ is responsible for enforcing both the Privacy Rule and the Security Rule.
Answer:
Office
for Civil Rights (OCR)
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Q: HIPAA
Answer:
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.
Q: HIPAA Privacy Rule -See Ch. 4 CRM
Answer:
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.
Q: Medical data that are combined without patient identifiers are:
A. Aggregate data
B. Confidential data
C. Population-based data
D. Unusable data
Answer:
Aggregate data
CRM: page 71
Q: Which of the following information must healthcare organizations protect?
A. Employee information
B. Individually identifiable patient helath information
C. informaton about the organization
D. All of the above
Answer:
All of the above
CRM: page 66-71
Q: Which of the following is a permissible disclosure of confidential patient information from the cancer
registry?
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
Answer:
To another registry for follow-up purposes
CRM: page 70-71
Q: What is the name of the organization that began collecting cancer data in 1973?
A. ACoS CoC
B. CDC NPCR
C. NAACCR
D. NCI SEER Program
Answer:
NCI SEER Program
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CRM: Page 30
Q: Which of the following organizations receive data submissions from central registries in the United
States?
A. The CDC National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR)
B. The NCI SEER Program
C. NAACCR
D. All of the above
Answer:
All of the above
CRM: page 9-10
Q: What type of cancer registry is designed to determine cancer patterns among various populations,
monitor cancer trends over time, and evaluate cancer control efforts?
A. Familial
B. Hospital-based
C. Population-based data
D. Specialty
Answer:
Population-based data
CRM; Page 9-10
Q: What is the nationally recognized clinical oncology database for accredited cancer programs in the
United States?
A. GLOBOCAN
B. National Cancer Data Base (NCDB)
C. National Program of Cancer Registries
D. SEER Program
Answer:
National Cancer Data Base (NCDB)
CRM: page 23
Q: HIPAA and other regulations give patients the right to:
A. Review any of the organization's business recocrds on 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
Answer:
Review their own medical records
kept by the organization
CRM: page 68
Q: Which of the following is NOT a program related to ACoS?
A. ASCO
B. NCDB
C. NAPBC
D. NAPRC
E. AJCC
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Q: Accredited COC registries submit date to?
Answer:
State cancer registry & NCBD (on annual basis)
Q: SEER
Answer:
Surveillance, Epidemiology, End Results
Q: Catchment area
Answer:
a specific geographic area for which a cancer registry collects all cancer cases
and maintains population-based information.
Q: ACS
Answer:
American Cancer Society
Q: CAP
Answer:
College of American Pathologist
Q: NCCN
Answer:
National comprehensive cancer network
Q: ASCO
Answer:
American Society of Clinical Oncology
Q: OVAC
Answer:
One Voice Against Cancer
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Q: The Central Tumor Registry of the United States 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
Answer:
B. Non-population-based central registry
Q: Where do Cancer Registry get their authority?
Answer:
from state laws and regulation
a portion of funding for state registries comes from either CDC NPCR or NCI SEER or both
Q: _______ and ________ have minimum requirements for registries which they fund
Reportability
Data items
Timeliness
Completeness
Accuracy
Central registries may have additional requirements for reporting facilities. ****See Ch. 12 CRM
Answer:
NPCR and SEER
Q: FERPA
Answer:
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974. One of the first federal laws to provide
specific, statutory protection for patient privacy.
Q: All cases for a diagnosis year must be submitted to the central registry no later than ______after
diagnosis.
Answer:
6 months
Q: The process of converting an address at diagnosis into analyzable data is known as ________. It
consists
of matching addressses against reference data containing latitude and longitude coordinates for
residential addresses.
Answer:
Geocoding
Q: The __________ is responsible for enforcing both the Privacy Rule and the Security Rule.
Answer:
Office
for Civil Rights (OCR)
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Q: HIPAA
Answer:
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.
Q: HIPAA Privacy Rule -See Ch. 4 CRM
Answer:
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.
Q: Medical data that are combined without patient identifiers are:
A. Aggregate data
B. Confidential data
C. Population-based data
D. Unusable data
Answer:
Aggregate data
CRM: page 71
Q: Which of the following information must healthcare organizations protect?
A. Employee information
B. Individually identifiable patient helath information
C. informaton about the organization
D. All of the above
Answer:
All of the above
CRM: page 66-71
Q: Which of the following is a permissible disclosure of confidential patient information from the cancer
registry?
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
Answer:
To another registry for follow-up purposes
CRM: page 70-71
Q: What is the name of the organization that began collecting cancer data in 1973?
A. ACoS CoC
B. CDC NPCR
C. NAACCR
D. NCI SEER Program
Answer:
NCI SEER Program
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CRM: Page 30
Q: Which of the following organizations receive data submissions from central registries in the United
States?
A. The CDC National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR)
B. The NCI SEER Program
C. NAACCR
D. All of the above
Answer:
All of the above
CRM: page 9-10
Q: What type of cancer registry is designed to determine cancer patterns among various populations,
monitor cancer trends over time, and evaluate cancer control efforts?
A. Familial
B. Hospital-based
C. Population-based data
D. Specialty
Answer:
Population-based data
CRM; Page 9-10
Q: What is the nationally recognized clinical oncology database for accredited cancer programs in the
United States?
A. GLOBOCAN
B. National Cancer Data Base (NCDB)
C. National Program of Cancer Registries
D. SEER Program
Answer:
National Cancer Data Base (NCDB)
CRM: page 23
Q: HIPAA and other regulations give patients the right to:
A. Review any of the organization's business recocrds on 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
Answer:
Review their own medical records
kept by the organization
CRM: page 68
Q: Which of the following is NOT a program related to ACoS?
A. ASCO
B. NCDB
C. NAPBC
D. NAPRC
E. AJCC
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