North American Association of Central Cancer Registries

描述（由申请人提供）：NAACCR是一个由癌症登记、监测项目、相关组织和个人组成的专业组织，致力于制定和促进癌症登记的统一数据标准；提供教育和培训；认证以人口为基础的登记处；汇总和发布来自中央癌症登记处的数据；促进将癌症监测数据和系统用于癌症控制和流行病学研究、公共卫生项目和患者护理，以减轻北美地区的癌症负担。NAACCR获得了2001-2005年为期五年的R13会议拨款，编号为R13 CA91824。这个奖项为协会举办年会提供了必要和有益的支持。在所有的年份中，我们都达到了所有的要求，并及时向NCI提供报告。在过去几年中，我们增加了会议共同提案国的数目，这有助于抵消会议运行费用的通货膨胀性增加。这有助于我们为与会者保留合理的注册费。年会的目标是：

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): NAACCR is a professional organization of cancer registries, surveillance programs, related organizations, and individuals committed to the mission of developing and promoting uniform data standards for cancer registration; providing education and training; certifying population-based registries; aggregating and publishing data from central cancer registries; and promoting the use of cancer surveillance data and systems for cancer control and epidemiologic research, public health programs, and patient care to reduce the burden of cancer in North America. NAACCR received a five-year R13 conference grant for 2001-2005, under award number R13 CA91824. This award provided necessary and helpful support to host an annual conference for the association. In all years, we met all requirements and provided timely reports to NCI. In the last several years, we have been able to increase the number of co-sponsors of the meeting, which have helped offset inflationary increases in the cost of running the conference. This has helped us retain reasonable registration fees for attendees. The objectives of the annual conference are to: 1. Provide educational opportunity for cancer registry and surveillance professionals on timely issues and strategic initiatives. 2. Increase interaction and networking among colleagues in cancer registration and surveillance to enhance and share knowledge about cancer registry data uses; new technologies; data access and confidentiality issues; cancer research; cancer registry operations; and new statistical approaches to surveillance research. 3. Provide an opportunity to present and share research results, operations tools, and cancer control activities both by association members and from outside experts. 4. Stimulate national and international communication and cooperation across health disciplines and organizations to encourage development and integration of cancer registry and surveillance systems. 5. Maintain consensus development of standards used in cancer registration operations, systems, and data analysis and presentation. 6. Conduct the association's business meeting, which includes finalization of the election of officers, approval of amendments to the bylaws, review of the fiscal health of the organization, and annual reports of progress and activities from all organizational units (committees).