Designing an Effective Cancer Committee
- Recruit key physicians
- Define the committee roles
- Develop an annual cancer program plan
- Create a cancer committee agenda guide
- Ensure your physicians have buy-in and mentoring so they remain involved in the committee functions
It’s the Little Things: Improve Upon Your Abstracting Habits
- Don’t multitask
- Don’t trust your memory. Use your manuals
- Make a to do list daily
- Process: text, notes, primary/histology, staging, treatments, follow up
Big Data =Big Information: Is Your Cancer Registrar Maximizing Value for Your Organization
- Send statistical information to the marketing department to release data through social media with a l ink to the facility
- Be an advocate for the cancer registry profession
- Provide program awareness via social media
- 60% of clinicians do now know how to request data from the cancer registry