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Assessing the Completeness of Key Data Items Across NCCR Registries for Pediatric and Adult Cancer Cases
The National Childhood Cancer Registry (NCCR) was developed under the National Cancer Institute’s Childhood Cancer Data Initiative (CCDI) to identify and follow childhood cancer cases in the U.S. Its primary…
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Your Voice Matters: Upcoming Public Comment Periods on US Health IT Standards
The U.S. Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) published two policy documents that will be of interest to the cancer surveillance community. Both have open public…
Association
NAACCR Announces New Executive Director: Karen Knight
It is an honor and a privilege to announce that the next Executive Director of NAACCR will be Ms. Karen Knight. Following a nationwide search, Ms. Knight was selected based…
Registries
MLTG Sets New Deadline for Central Registry User Data Dictionaries and Edits Metafiles
The Mid-Level Tactical Group (MLTG) manages the cancer surveillance change control process to ensure an efficient and timely change management process. One of the many steps in this process is…
Registries
New Edits Promote Enhanced Quality
The NAACCR Edits Work Group has developed a new group of edits for central registry use, identified as QC_Chk (quality control) edits. They are included in special edit sets rather…
Members
Upcoming Nominations: 2025 NAACCR Board of Directors Positions
The Committee is seeking nominees to run for election to four key leadership roles on the NAACCR Board of Directors, with terms beginning June 2025, as well as candidates for…
Surveillance
CiNA Statistics and CiNA*Explorer Update
In June 2024, the 2017-2021 CiNA cancer statistics were updated in CiNA*Explorer: https://apps.naaccr.org/explorer. This update reflects the final migration from our historic, flagship product (the CiNA Monographs) to the CiNA*Explorer…
Training
NAACCR Education and Training Upcoming Events
NAACCR ODS Exam Prep and Review We are in the middle of our summer session of the NAACCR ODS Exam Prep webinar series. Our fall session is tentatively scheduled to…
Events
NAACCR at NCRA’s Annual Conference
NAACCR at NCRA’s Annual Conference Angela Martin, ODS-C Trainer/Project Coordinator [email protected] What a great trip it was to attend the National Cancer Registrars Association Annual Conference! We had several NAACCR…
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NAACCR participation at the NCRA Annual Conference 2024
Last April, the National Cancer Registrars Association held its 50th Annual Educational Conference, in Indianapolis, Indiana, with the goal to discuss critical cancer registry topics and help registrars stay current….