The Cancer Registry must have established policies and procedures. This quiz provides you with some of the basic information about how cancer registries function, and the terminology used within the Registry.

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Cancer Registry Procedures

This quiz will evaluate your knowledge of cancer registry procedures. There is one correct answer for each question and no time limit on this quiz. Each correct answer is worth one point. Good luck. Disclaimer - All answers are felt to be correct. However, if you disagree, please research the issue. Mistakes happen. This quiz has been reviewed and approved by Certified Tumor Registrars. Quiz results can be emailed by you in 3 easy steps by taking a screen shot. 1. While viewing your score, Press Alt, while clicking Prt Scn (Print Screen). 2. Open a word processing program, then Paste the image. Save this image to your desktop. 3. Compose an email, then attach the image. Send to the intended recipient.

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Question 1

Cancer cases usually not requiring follow-up include all of the following except:

A	Non-reportable or reportable by agreement only
B	Foreign residents
C	Patients over age 100 whose date of last contact is more than 12 months
D	Ovarian cancer cases prior to 1951

Question 2

Sources of passive follow-up include all of the following except:

A	Checking HCFA-Medicare files
B	Checking the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) files
C	Checking death indexes or searches
D	Letters to patients

Question 3

Using a website for follow-up activities is considered what type of follow-up?

A	Concurrent
B	Retrospective
C	Active
D	Passive

Question 4

This cancer registry procedure involves capturing all patients diagnosed and/or treated at the facility:

A	casefinding
B	abstracting
C	follow-up
D	coding

Question 5

The accession registry is in what type of order?

A	numerical by admission date
B	numerical by date of diagnosis
C	alphabetical
D	numerical by accession number

Question 6

This cancer registry procedure involves obtaining data about the patient's diagnosis and treatment, coding and entering this information into a database:

A	casefinding
B	coding
C	abstracting
D	follow-up

Question 7

All the following are active forms of patient follow-up except:

A	computerized searches of databases
B	letters to the patient
C	letters to the patient's physician
D	letters to the patient's next of kin

Question 8

This cancer registry procedure involves monitoring cancer patients annually throughout their lifetime in order to collect data:

A	Abstracting
B	Follow-up
C	Casefinding
D	Coding

Question 9

Patient follow-up must be conducted by the cancer registry:

A	it depends on the physician orders
B	monthly
C	every 5 years
D	yearly

Question 10

All of the following are cancer registry case finding methods except:

A	Calling patients suspected of having a cancer diagnosis
B	Review of radiation therapy patients
C	Earmarking of cases by discharge analysts or coders
D	Review of pathology reports

Question 11

The first four numbers of the accession number represent the:

A	year the patient was first diagnosed at the facility
B	current year
C	year the patient was initially diagnosed with cancer
D	year of reoccurrence

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