ODS EXAM PREP 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS 100% PASS
Accredited COC registries submit date to? - ANS State cancer registry & NCDB (on annual
basis)
SEER - ANS Surveillance, Epidemiology, End Results
Catchment area - ANS a specific geographic area for which a cancer registry collects all
cancer cases and maintains population-based information.
ACS - ANS American Cancer Society
CAP - ANS College of American Pathologist
NCCN - ANS National comprehensive cancer network
ASCO - ANS American Society of Clinical Oncology
OVAC - ANS One Voice Against Cancer
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,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 - ANS B. Non-population-based central registry
Where do Cancer Registry get their authority? - ANS from state laws and regulation
a portion of funding for state registries comes from either CDC NPCR or NCI SEER or both
_______ 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
- ANS NPCR and SEER
FERPA - ANS Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974. One of the first federal laws
to provide specific, statutory protection for patient privacy.
All cases for a diagnosis year must be submitted to the central registry no later than
______after diagnosis. - ANS 6 months
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. - ANS Geocoding
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,The __________ is responsible for enforcing both the Privacy Rule and the Security Rule. -
ANS Office for Civil Rights (OCR)
HIPAA - ANS 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.
HIPAA Privacy Rule -See Ch. 4 CRM - ANS 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.
Medical data that are combined without patient identifiers are:
A. Aggregate data
B. Confidential data
C. Population-based data
D. Unusable data - ANS Aggregate data
CRM: page 71
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 - ANS All of the above
CRM: page 66-71
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
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, C. To the patient
D. To the patient's attorney - ANS To another registry for follow-up purposes
CRM: page 70-71
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 - ANS NCI SEER Program
CRM: Page 30
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 - ANS All of the above
CRM: page 9-10
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 - ANS Population-based data
CRM; Page 9-10
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AND ANSWERS 100% PASS
Accredited COC registries submit date to? - ANS State cancer registry & NCDB (on annual
basis)
SEER - ANS Surveillance, Epidemiology, End Results
Catchment area - ANS a specific geographic area for which a cancer registry collects all
cancer cases and maintains population-based information.
ACS - ANS American Cancer Society
CAP - ANS College of American Pathologist
NCCN - ANS National comprehensive cancer network
ASCO - ANS American Society of Clinical Oncology
OVAC - ANS One Voice Against Cancer
1 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026.
,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 - ANS B. Non-population-based central registry
Where do Cancer Registry get their authority? - ANS from state laws and regulation
a portion of funding for state registries comes from either CDC NPCR or NCI SEER or both
_______ 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
- ANS NPCR and SEER
FERPA - ANS Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974. One of the first federal laws
to provide specific, statutory protection for patient privacy.
All cases for a diagnosis year must be submitted to the central registry no later than
______after diagnosis. - ANS 6 months
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. - ANS Geocoding
2 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026.
,The __________ is responsible for enforcing both the Privacy Rule and the Security Rule. -
ANS Office for Civil Rights (OCR)
HIPAA - ANS 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.
HIPAA Privacy Rule -See Ch. 4 CRM - ANS 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.
Medical data that are combined without patient identifiers are:
A. Aggregate data
B. Confidential data
C. Population-based data
D. Unusable data - ANS Aggregate data
CRM: page 71
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 - ANS All of the above
CRM: page 66-71
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
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, C. To the patient
D. To the patient's attorney - ANS To another registry for follow-up purposes
CRM: page 70-71
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 - ANS NCI SEER Program
CRM: Page 30
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 - ANS All of the above
CRM: page 9-10
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 - ANS Population-based data
CRM; Page 9-10
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