34th Annual Education Conference of the National Cancer Registrars Association

描述(申请人提供)：来自全美医院、中央和国家癌症登记处的约1300名癌症登记员将参加2008年4月28日至5月1日在明尼苏达州明尼阿波利斯市举行的第34届全国癌症登记员协会(NCRA)年度教育会议。NCRA会议是世界上最大的癌症登记员教育项目。NCRA会议将为癌症登记人员提供一个论坛，以了解影响国家癌症数据收集的标准变化。癌症登记员将获得关于癌症诊断和治疗的最新技术变化以及正确、一致地记录这些数据的指导。将讨论的主题包括多个初级和组织学编码、协作阶段、新的编码规则、编码规则的变化、Fords和信息学。癌症登记员还将提高他们的管理和行政技能、医学科学知识、数据库管理以及数据检索和分析。会议还将为中央登记员和医院登记员提供机会，就如何提高癌症数据的准确性和及时性建立网络联系。如果没有NCRA会议，癌症登记人员将无法获得最先进的数据收集技术和方法。因此，癌症数据的最终质量不会那么高。这将影响国家癌症研究所监测、流行病学和最终结果(SEER)计划收集和发布的信息的有用性以及对这些数据进行的研究的质量。 NCRA是唯一一个专门代表个人的全国性专业协会，这些个人识别、提取、分类和编码发生在美国各地的癌症病例。NCRA还管理认证的肿瘤登记(CTR)证书。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Approximately 1,300 Cancer Registrars from hospital based, central, and national cancer registries throughout the United States will attend the 34th Annual Educational Conference of the National Cancer Registrars Association (NCRA) in Minneapolis, MN, from April 28 to May 1, 2008. The NCRA Conference is the largest educational program for Cancer Registrars in the world. The NCRA Conference will provide a forum for Cancer Registrars to learn of changes in standards that effect national cancer data collection. Cancer Registrars will receive guidance on the latest technological changes in cancer diagnosis and treatment and the correct, consistent manner to record this data. Topics to be discussed include Multiple Primary & Histology Coding, Collaborative Staging, New Coding Rules, Changes in Coding Rules, FORDS and Informatics. Cancer Registrars will also improve their management and administrative skills, knowledge of medical sciences, database management, and data retrieval and analysis. The conference will also provide opportunities for central Registrars and hospital Registrars to network on ways to improve the accuracy and timeliness of cancer data. Without the NCRA Conference, Cancer Registrars would not have access to state of the art data collection techniques and methods. As a result, the ultimate quality of cancer data would not be as high. This would impact the usefulness of information collected and published by the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program and the quality of research conducted on that data. NCRA is the only national professional society exclusively representing the individuals who identify, abstract, classify and code cases of cancer that occur throughout the United States. NCRA also administers the Certified Tumor Registrars (CTR) credential.