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The CP of the medical center on XYZ Air Force Base submits their cases to the Automated
Central Tumor Registry (ACTUR) & to the NCDB. The CP has a:
a. Hospital/institution-based ca registry
b. Network ca registry
c. non-pop based cancer registry
d. pop-based central cancer registry - ✔✔Hospital/institution-based ca registry
The ability for a cancer registry to incorporate electronic data from an external source into the
registry and the ability for external recipients to incorporate registry data for their use is:
a. interoperability
b. not permitted
c. semantic
d. syntactic - ✔✔interoperability
What type of CR is designated to determine cancer patterns among various pop, monitor ca
trends over time, and evaluate ca control efforts?
a. familial
,b. hospital-based
c. pop-based
d. specialty - ✔✔pop-based
What is the nationwide onc outcomes database for accrediated ca programs in the US?
a. GLOBOCAN
b. NCDB
c. NPCR
d. SEER Program - ✔✔NCDB
HIPAA and other regulations give pts the right to:
a. Review any of the organization's business records on
them b. Review central ca registry information on them c.
Review information on them ca registry
d. Review their own medical records kept by the organization - ✔✔Review their own
medical records kept by the organization
The resource ffor detailed specifications and codes for each data item in the data
exhange record layout is:
a. Cancer program standards
b. FORDS
c. NAACCR Volume II Data Standards and Data Dictionary
,d. SEER Program Coding & Staging Manual - ✔✔NAACCR Volume II Data Standards & Data
Dictionary
Lymph-vascular invasion is the presence of tumor cells in:
a. Distant mets sites
b. LN(s)
c. Lymphatic channels or blood vessels
d. The thymus - ✔✔Lymphatic channels or blood vessels
The final dx on the path report documents Nottingham score of 8. The primary site is
most likely:
a. Brain
b. Breast
c. Kidney
d. Skin - ✔✔Breast
Freestanding path labs may be a casefinding source for a:
a. Community hospital cancer program
b. NCDB
c. Network ca program
d. State central cancer registry - ✔✔State central ca registry
, Pt admitted to hospital on 2/1/16 w/ congestive heart failure. On 2/2/16 the pt had a CT that
showed a mass in the lung, probably malig. On 2/3/16 the pt had a partial lobectomy. Path report
documented RUL mass, adenoca, confined to the lung. What is the date of first contact?
a. 2/1/16
b. 2/2/16
c. 2/3/16
d. 2/99/16 - ✔✔2/3/16
Pt w/ endometrial adenoca self-identifes as multiracial. Her mother is Hawaiian, and her father
is AA? What is the code for Race 1?
a. 02: Black
b. 07: Hawaiian
c. 98: Other
d. 99: Unknown - ✔✔Black
The ca program at General Hosp is accredited by the CoC. The cancer committee at General
Hosp included CIS of the cervix on on its list of reportable cases. For General Hospital, CIS
cases are:
a. analytic
b. nonmalig
c. prospective
d. reportable by agreement - ✔✔Reportable by agreement
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