CANCER REPORTING
TRUE OR FALSE EXERCISES
Instructions: Read each question carefully and provide the appropriate answer. In order to select True or
False, click in the appropriate box and an
will appear.
CASE SELECTION
Determine if the following cases (Questions 1-19) should be reported to the Texas Cancer
Registry.
1. A patient who resides in Tulsa but was diagnosed with leukemia in your hospital.
True
False
2. Patient admitted for ambulatory surgery with a diagnosis of malignant melanoma.
True
False
3. Squamous cell carcinoma of the skin of the arm.
True
False
4. A patient with a benign meningioma in the cerebrum.
True
False
5. A patient who is admitted for palliative care following chemotherapy for
metastatic lung carcinoma.
True
False
6. A patient with a history of leukemia in remission and all treatment completed 6
months ago.
True
False
7. A patient who is HIV positive with a diagnosis of Kaposi Sarcoma.
True
False
8. A patient diagnosed with cancer at your facility but referred elsewhere for
treatment.
True
False
9. A patient diagnosed with prostate cancer in a physician’s office who is admitted
the following day for treatment of a heart condition.
True
False
10. A patient with a diagnosis of Waldenstrom Macroglobulinemia.
True
False
11. A patient with a diagnosis of probable lung cancer.
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True
False
12. A patient with a radiological diagnosis of possible pancreatic cancer with no
treatment given.
True
False
13. A cat with a diagnosis of feline leukemia.
True
False
14. Report cases with behavior code of “2” or “3” using ICD-O-3 diagnosed/
admitted January 1, 2001 and forward.
True
False
15. A patient with pilocytic astrocytoma.
True
False
16. Only Texas residents with active disease need to be reported.
True
False
17. A patient diagnosed with vaginal intraepithelial neoplasia III (VAIN) should be
reported.
True
False
18. A patient with refractory anemia comes into your facility in 1999. This case
should be reported.
True
False
19. Borderline cystadenomas of the ovaries will not be collected as of January 01,
2001.
True
False
DATA SUBMISSION
Determine if the following statements are true or false.
1. Manual (paper) cancer reporting forms are allowed and can be mailed in a single
envelope.
True
False
2. If a patient has multiple admissions for a reportable cancer, a reporting form
should be completed for each admission.
True
False
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3. A facility with an annual case load of 500 cases must submit via CRESS using
TCR or other acceptable software.
True
False
4. For a patient with two cancers, each separate primary must be reported to the
TCR. For example, two reporting forms would need to be completed for a patient
with squamous cell carcinoma of the lung and adenocarcinoma of the oral cavity.
True
False
TIMELINESS
Determine if the following statements are true or false.
1. A patient diagnosed at your facility on 01/03/2006 needs to be reported to the
TCR July 2006.
True
False
2. A patient diagnosed with cancer at another facility and treated at your facility on
03/04/2006 should be reported to the TCR in 09/2006.
True
False
QUALITY ASSURANCE
Determine if the following statements are true or false.
1.
Quality control activities are not essential to assuring good quality data.
True
False
2. As a part of our quality control procedures, the TCR will reabstract a percentage
of the cases reported by your facility.
True
False
3. Results of Casefinding and reabstracting procedures can be used for future
training for your hospital.
True
False
4. Annual review of the medical records disease index can help ensure that all cases
have been reported.
True
False
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5. Outpatient records do not need to be checked for reportable cases.
True
False
6. Once a patient has been reported to the TCR, readmissions do not need to be
considered.
True
False
7. Following a reabstracting study, the TCR will compare the record submitted by
your institution to the one prepared by TCR staff, for the same patient, to
determine discrepancies in data.
True
False
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