When you see articles published or hear news reports about Oral, Head and Neck Cancer do you realize all of the anatomical sites included in these areas? The areas include the tongue, throat, voice box/larynx, nasal cavity, sinuses, lips, mouth, thyroid gland and salivary gland. How many new Oral, Head and Neck cancers are diagnosed each year? Raising awareness about Oral, Head and Neck Cancers is…
Registry Partners would like to wish our Certified Tumor Registrar (CTR) team a Happy National Cancer Registrars Week. Not only are you the Hidden Jewels of Cancer Care … you are the most precious and rare jewels within the oncology care continuum; adding a dimension to oncology care that no other specialty can. Your commitment to accurate and high quality data allows for continued…
“Trailblazing the Future” March 7th – 9th, 2018 – Orlando, Florida Submitted by Jo Boxall, RN, Validation Manager for Registry Partners – On behalf of Registry Partners, Leoma Berroteran, RN, BSN, Registry Services Director and I had the pleasure of attending the 2018 NCDR Annual Conference, in Orlando, Florida, March 7th through 9th. Director of Business Development, Tony Summerlin, and Business Development Associate, Sheila Veuleman, RN,…
Guidelines for the 2018 ICD-O-3 Update have been created and can be downloaded from NAACCR. ICD-O-3 Codes come from World Health Organization (WHO) International Histology Classification of Tumors (Blue Books) and International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). Since the ICD-O-3 codes update in 2011, WHO has continued to publish updates to the WHO Blue Book Series. When a new Blue Book is published, the terminology…
