Chapter 3 Review - Cancer Diagnosis & Staging

Question 1

What does the provider need to do in order to access the Staging activity?

Answer 1

Enter a cancer diagnosis on the problem list, and click Enter Staging Information.

Question 2

Why is it important to add the cancer diagnosis to a patient’s Problem List with Epic?

Answer 2

This is the only way to access the staging information, and there are many other parts of a patient’s cancer treatment that rely on having the diagnosis on the problem list.

Question 3

What are the two types of staging?

Answer 3

Clinical and pathologic staging

Question 4

What is the Problem List?

Answer 4

The Problem List is an activity used to store chronic diagnoses for patients.

Question 5

What is cancer staging?

Answer 5

Cancer staging is a clinical process used to determine how advanced the patient’s cancer is before beginning treatment.

Question 6

What does staging analyze?

Answer 6

Staging analyzes the size and location of the tumor, whether or not the cancer has spread to the nearby lymph nodes, and the number and distance of metastases.