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Which hospitals are required to submit data to the state cancer registry?
A.Hospitals with CoC approved cancer programs
B.
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C. Both (a) and (b)
D. Neither (a) nor (b) Answer:- Both (a) and (b)
Which types of cancer registries can receive CoC approval for their cancer programs? Answer:- B. Hospital-based registries
Specialty cancer registries may collect data
A. From specific facilities.
B. On familial cancers.
C. Both (a) and (b)
D. Neither (a) nor (b) Answer:- D. Neither (a) nor (b)
Specialty cancer registries can collect and maintain data from:
Specific facilities, as NCDB does from only ACoS approved facilities
Specific cancer sites, such as the Central Brain Tumor Registry of the United States (CBTRUS)
Specific familial cancers, such as the Gilda Radner Familial Ovarian Cancer Registries
Cancer registries in the United States have the reputation of being the most complete and highest quality public health surveillance systems because of
A. The training and certification of Certified Cancer Registrars (CTRs).
B. Comprehensive case identification.
C. Both (a) and (b)
D. Neither (a) nor (b) Answer:- C. Both (a) and (b)
Cancer registries in the United States have the reputation of being the most complete and highest quality public health surveillance systems because of standardized case definitions and data elements, comprehensive case identification, and the rigorous training and certification procedures for cancer registrars.
Hospital and population-based cancer registries collect cancer data to
Response :
A. Be aggregated by a Federal agency.
B. Be sent to the National Cancer Data Base (NCDB).
C. Meet standards of the Commission on Cancer (CoC).
D. Be sent to the State cancer registry. Answer:- A. Be aggregated by a Federal agency.
Data are collected by hospital and population-based cancer registries (central registries) to be aggregated by a Federal agency.
Central registries do not send data to NCDB nor do they meet standards of the CoC. Central registries may send data to a state cancer registry if there are regional cancer registries in the state, but that is true for only a few states.
Not all hospital registries are CoC approved hospitals, so they do not send data to NCDB nor do they meet the standards of CoC.
The caBIG was sponsored by the
A. National Cancer Institute (NCI).
B. Commission on Cancer (CoC).
C. National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR).
D. International Association of Cancer Registries (IACCR). Answer:- A. National Cancer Institute (NCI).
caBIG (the Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid) was sponsored by the National Cancer Institute Center for Bioinformatics to develop a network of tools, data, and researchers to support the discovery of new a [Show Less]