Celebrate National Cancer Registrars Week – April 6 – 10, 2015 beacon (also known as Certified Tumor Registrar) noun bea·con ˈbē-kən CTR a strong light that can be seen from far away and that is used to help guide ships, airplanes, etc. a radio signal that is broadcast to help guide ships, airplanes, etc. someone or something (such as a country) that guides…
Interview with a Hospital Administrator Commission on Cancer Surveyor, Bill Laffey
During a recent meeting at the American Cancer Executives Meeting in Charleston, South Carolina, I had the opportunity to listen to Bill Laffey speak on the CoC standards. His perspective from being an administrator rather than a physician was a change from most presentations I had heard. I went on to ask him a few questions I thought would be of interest to our readers. …
“Where are my patients going?” and other questions you don’t know you already have the answers to
We Have the Questions, YOUR Cancer Registry Has the Answers! With the depth and the quality of the cancer registry data collection process within cancer programs, it is hard not to ask questions related to your patient population and why your program is growing or in some cases not growing? Listed below is a very small example in a world full of thousands and thousands of…
Are you completing your NCAA Brackets?
I join the thousands of others who haven’t followed a single college basketball game but are now excited for March Madness to begin. I have filled out brackets for years with some horrible outcomes and some top finishes much to the amazement of my peers and family. I have as good of a chance of scoring points with my brackets as just about anyone else. Beating out…