Domain 1 Casefinding Closed Book Flashcards
The National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR) requires central registries to do hospital casefinding or reabstracting audits on
each hospital:
Every 5 years
The first course of treatment:
Consists of all cancer-directed treatment regardless of where it takes place
Casefinding timeliness in a central registry is determined by…..
Planned use of the data.
True or False, The code 8500 represents the correct format for a morphology code.
False
The code 8500/3 represents the correct format for a morphology code.
True or False, You use the M Rules to determine whether there is a single tumor or multiple tumor before using the H Rules.
True
True or False, For cases diagnosed January 2018 and forward, use the Solid Tumor Rules Coding Manual.
True
The suspense file can contain information on cases that are:
Potentially reportable
To monitor case completeness of reporting facilities, central registries may perform:
Casefinding audits.
True or False, The Solid Tumor Rules are in alphabetical order within each module.
False
The Solid Tumor Rules are in hierarchical order within each module.
True or False, Grade is a measure of how much the malignant cell resembles a normal or non-malignant cell of the same type.
True
The accuracy of surgery schedules as a source of casefinding depends on appropriate documentation of orders and diagnoses at
the time of surgery.
True
What is NOT a typical method of casefinding?
Birth records
Casefinding may also be referred to as case consolidation
False
The sequence number tells you:
How many primary tumors the patient has
A patient has urine cytology suspicious for urothelial carcinoma. This case is:
Reportable if there is confirmation by positive pathology and/or by clinician diagnosis.
