We would like to recognize the South Carolina Central Cancer Registry for receiving Gold Certification from the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR)!
Gold Certification is the highest level of distinction awarded by NAACCR. Achieving Gold Certification indicates the data submitted by the South Carolina Cancer Registry is complete, accurate and timely including: a 95% or higher case ascertainment completeness rate, 3% or fewer reported cancer cases classified as death certificate only cases, less than 1 duplicate record in every thousand cases, 100% error free data on variables used to create incidence statistics by cancer type, sex, race, age and county, less than 2% of cases are missing information such as age, sex and county, less than 3% of cases are missing information such as race, and the data file was submitted to NAACCR within 23 months of the diagnosis year under review.
We would like to congratulate the South Carolina Central Cancer Registry and participating hospital registrars for their commitment and effort collecting high quality cancer data.