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2060 ch 3 quiz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Designed for use with data sets worldwide, this program helps monitor the internal consistency of registry data by using algorithms to detect unlikely or impossible codes or combinations of codes: | CHECK |
| The publication that is available every five years and provides detailed and comparable high-quality data on the incidence of cancer from registries worldwide is: | Cancer Incidence in Five Continents |
| Which of the following organizations is a professional society dedicated to fostering the aims and actions of cancer registries worldwide. | IACR |
| ACS’s nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy affiliate works to make cancer a top priority for public officials and candidates at the federal, state, and local levels by empowering advocates across the country to make their voices heard. | CAN |
| The resource and reference used for complete reporting of malignant tumors, including AJCC staging and WHO histological types is: | CAP protocols |
| The first prospective clinical trial by ASCO, Targeted Agent and Profiling Utilization Registry (TAPUR), explores: | Off-label use of new targeted agents based on tumor DNA |
| Which of the following organizations is a collaboration of national nonprofit organizations united behind a message of long-term, sustained funding increases for cancer research and prevention at the federal level. | OVAC |
| The organization that oversees the ODS Exam administration and credential maintenance is: | NCRA |
| The largest private, not-for-profit source of cancer research funds in the United States is which group? | ACS |
| This organization’s mission is to save lives, celebrate lives, and lead the fight for a world without cancer. | ACS |
| The grant program that focuses on the interface between laboratory investigations and human testing is: | Translational Cancer Research |
| This certification is the first program of its kind for outpatient oncology practices in the United States: | QOPI |
| The mission of which organization is to provide high quality resources in education and research to advance the quality of care its members provide for patients with cancer? | ASCO |
| NCRA’s purpose is to promote and support the profession through: | Organizational sustainability and governance, membership, alliances and advocacy, professional and career development, credentialing, and education |
| The publication that serves readers as a credible, authoritative, peer-reviewed resource for significant clinical oncology research. | Journal of clinical oncology |
| This conference is a forum for exchanging knowledge among cancer registry professionals worldwide. | IACR Annual Scientific Conference |
| Which ACS group conducts studies of factors associated with cancer incidence, mortality, survival, and survivorship to reduce the burden imposed by cancer, improve cancer outcomes, and reduce cancer disparities? | Behavioral and Epidemiology Research Group (BERG) |
| A rapid-learning system that is among the largest and the most diverse database in oncology collects and analyzes real-world cancer data from multiple health IT systems to improve care and drive new research is called: | CancerLinQ |
| The group who advocates for federal funding of NPCR as well as full funding for the nation’s public cancer research institutions, including NIH and NCI is: | ACS CAN |
| This group, a collaboration between the ACS and George Washington University Cancer Center and funded by CDC, provides information for survivors and caregivers as well as an e-learning series for Primary Care Providers. | NCSRC |