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Unit One: Introduction to Cancer Registry Operations and Procedures

• Cancer Registry Operations & Procedures
• Hospital-based Cancer Registries
• Population-based Cancer Registries
• Unit Review and Quiz

Unit Two: Cancer Registry Management

• Introduction
• Cancer Registry Planning
• Cancer Registry Position Descriptions
• Office Management
• Productivity Standards
• Policy & Procedure manual
• Reference Date
• Reportable List
• Cancer Registry Organization
• Unit Review & Quiz

Unit Three: Case Ascertainment

• Case Ascertainment

Unit Four: Data Standards and Standard-Setting Agencies

• Introduction
• Standard Setters
  • The World Health Organization (WHO)
  • The American Cancer Society (ACS)
  • The American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC)
  • The Commission on Cancer (CoC)
  • The National Cancer Data Base (NCDB)
  • The Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results Program (SEER)
  • the National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR)
  • the National Cancer Registrars Association (NCRA)
  • The North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR)
  • The Uniform Data Standards Committee (UDSC) of NAACCR
• Scope of Standards for Data & Data Management
  • Data Sets
  • Code Categories
  • Rules for Code Assignment
  • Data Edits
  • Case Consolidation
  • Cases to Be Covered by New or Changed Standards
  • Administrative Items
  • Data Management Procedures
• Unit Review & Quiz

Unit Five: Abstracting, Staging, and Coding Procedures

• Abstracting, Staging, and Coding Procedures

Unit Six: Follow-up Procedures

• Cancer Patient Follow-up Procedures