Reflections on the 2025 Annual Conference

By Karen Knight | June 23, 2025

Karen Knight, Executive Director of NAACCR, shares her reflections from the conference, with a call to leadership and working together during uncertain times. Having returned home from the 2025 Annual Conference in Hartford, CT, my heart is full of gratitude for this amazing community and my mind is full of new ideas, challenges and opportunities.…

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2025 NAACCR Board of Directors Election Results

By Mona Highsmith, BA | June 16, 2025

The NAACCR Nominating Committee is charged with encouraging volunteers to consider serving on the NAACCR Board of Directors and to accept eligible nominations for Board elections. For 2025, there were four key leadership roles on the Board of Directors to be filled: Treasurer and three Representatives-at-Large. Additionally, this year’s general election selected three individuals for…

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Call for Subject Matter Experts: Help Develop Central Registry Training!

By Jim Hofferkamp, BA, CTR | May 26, 2025

The NAACCR Professional Development Steering Committee’s Upkeep Work Group is developing a series of 14–15 online training modules to support central cancer registry professionals—and we need your expertise! We’re covering a wide range of topics, including: Reporting Requirements Casefinding Processing Incoming Records Edits & Consolidation Quality Control (QC) Geocoding Surveillance Activities Research File Development Have…

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Reflections on the 2025 Annual Conference

By Karen Knight | June 23, 2025

Karen Knight, Executive Director of NAACCR, shares her reflections from the conference, with a call to leadership and working together during uncertain times. Having returned home from the 2025 Annual Conference in Hartford, CT, my heart is full of gratitude for this amazing community and my mind is full of new ideas, challenges and opportunities.…

Read More >

2025 NAACCR Board of Directors Election Results

By Mona Highsmith, BA | June 16, 2025

The NAACCR Nominating Committee is charged with encouraging volunteers to consider serving on the NAACCR Board of Directors and to accept eligible nominations for Board elections. For 2025, there were four key leadership roles on the Board of Directors to be filled: Treasurer and three Representatives-at-Large. Additionally, this year’s general election selected three individuals for…

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Call for Subject Matter Experts: Help Develop Central Registry Training!

By Jim Hofferkamp, BA, CTR | May 26, 2025

The NAACCR Professional Development Steering Committee’s Upkeep Work Group is developing a series of 14–15 online training modules to support central cancer registry professionals—and we need your expertise! We’re covering a wide range of topics, including: Reporting Requirements Casefinding Processing Incoming Records Edits & Consolidation Quality Control (QC) Geocoding Surveillance Activities Research File Development Have…

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Louisiana Amends Cancer Reporting Law and Modernizes Framework

By Xiao-Cheng Wu | May 19, 2025

In 2024, Louisiana enacted legislative amendments to its cancer reporting law to enhance the Louisiana Tumor Registry‘s (LTR) authority and…

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Successful Linkage Between Registry Database and LexisNexis

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