According to the CoC Program standards, whose responsibility is it to establish the attendance
requirements for the multidisciplinary cancer conference/ tumor board
Cancer Committee
Cancer registry personnel
Physician liaison
Quality improvement coordinator
Cancer Committee
Supraglottis is within the
Esophagus
Larynx
Pharynx
Stomach
Larynx
Pt had mammo on 3/1/09. Report documented right upper quadrant mass, probable malignancy. Bx
performed 3/10/09 showed intraductal ca of mass. Lumpectomy was performed 3/10/09 and path
documented infiltrating ductal ca. Date of initial Dx is:
3/1/09
3/5/09
3/10/09
3/99/09
3/1/09
According to CoC program standards, a reportable malignancy should be abstracted within 6 months
from the :
date of admission to facility
date of discharge from facility
date of first contact
date of initial dx
date of first contact
The enumeration of what is happening to a sample bieng studied is:
Analytic epidemiology
Descriptive statistics
The hypothesis
Survival analysis
Descriptive statistics
A software system made up of hardware and sofware used to control storage, retrieval, and
management of large data sets is a:
database management system
flat file system
hierarchical model
, probabilistic match
database management system
Encrypting cancer data before it is transmitted is:
a CoC standard
Data Security
Mandated by HIPAA
Obsolete
Data Security
The central registry operation that matches deaths in a population to the central cancer registry
database is
casefinding
death clearance
record consolidation
vital statistics matching
death clearance
As defined for the central registry record consolidation process, an individual report on a tumor sent
from the reporting facility to the central registry is a
consolidated record
patient record
source record
tumor record
source record
The operation to determine if two or more records submitted to the central registry are for the same
patient is:
Death clearance
Editing
Record consolidation
Record linkage
Record linkage
Pt had chest x-ray showed right lung mass on 9/15/09. a CT on 9/22/09 had a final impression of right
lung mass, most likely malignant. Sputum cytology on 9/2509 showed small cell ca. Pt had a right
upper lobectomy on 10/5/09 and final path was squamous cell ca. all procedures were done at St.
Elsewhere Hospital. Date of first contact for St. Elsewhere Hospital?
9/15/09
9/22/09
9/25/09
10/5/09
9/22/09
Cancer registry data may release without patient auth to the: