MCR MINI-UPDATE JULY 2012
Fellow Registrars,
I hope that July holds some vacation time for you to travel or relax. Several MCR staff have just come back from a working trip to Portland, Oregon for the annual NAACCR meeting. We gathered lots of good ideas and shared with other states what we do well. Two of our posters won prizes! I wish we could have brought some of that Pacific NW rain back to hot, dry Missouri!
MCR NEWS
Database Conversions
MCR plans to convert Web Plus to NAACCR version 12.2 in July. We will send a blast email to announce the actual dates that it will be down for conversion. After conversion we will announce the effective date for accepting v12.2.
If you have not converted your database, now would be a good time to send us any 2011 or earlier cases that are ready! You will still be able to send unconverted files to us after our conversion. You will need to convert before sending us any 2012 cases.
If you have already converted, please hold any 2012 cases and cases abstracted in NAACCR v12.2 until after our upgrade.
Live Meeting - Death Clearance Followback
It’s that time of year again! Death Clearance Follow-Back! Before we get into the process come join our Live Meeting on July 11 at 10:00am. During this presentation you will get to see the results of your follow-back and how it has an impact on cancer data. We also will present helpful hints that will make the process of completing our follow-back requests easier and more efficient. Contact Fred at to register.
On August 8, Nancy Rold will present the Live Meeting: Tips for Using CSv2.04
MCR Manual
The MCR Manual for 2012 is posted on our website at: http://mcr.umh.edu/mcr-cancer-reporting-hospital.php
Save the Date
Save the Date - Mercy Hospital St. Louis will be hostingthe BiSTRA Fall meetingThursday, November 8th. Edie Vallo suggests that this should count as a Regional meeting in compliance with CoC accreditation standard 1.11.
STANDARD SETTER NEWS
News from NAACCR Annual Meeting
This meeting is an interesting exchange between standard setters and central registries. The mix of registrars and epidemiologists adds a whole new perspective compared to the NCRA meeting. This year, there was lots of discussion about Collaborative Staging. There is a move, on several fronts, to review Site Specific Factors. Existing SSFs may be pruned. Proposed new SSFs will be scrutinized. Is it useful? available? standardized? Does the benefit outweigh the burden of collecting it? Will the data be complete enough in our databases to allow research use? The various work groups involved are open to suggestions from you, the users, on how to best simplify SSF collection. Submit your improvement ideas anonymously at: http://www.naaccr.org/Applications/Public/CSv2Ticket.aspx
CS Typo
Thanks to Louanne for uncovering a typo in Note 2 of SSF1 (WHO Grade) for Brain/CNS schemas. The note refers to a table in the AJCC 7th edition and should be listed as Table 56.3. This typo will be fixed in the next CS version.
Cancer in North America (CINA) 2005-2009
For those who love or need data for comparison, the latest CINA publication is available at: http://www.naaccr.org/DataandPublications/CINAPubs.aspxCheck out the Missouri sections – this is your data consolidated and compiled!
American Cancer Society Fact & Figures on Cancer Treatment and Survivorship
http://www.cancer.org/acs/groups/content/@epidemiologysurveilance/documents/document/acspc-033876.pdf
RESOURCES
New Drug Regimen for Lymphomas
http://curetoday.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/article.showArticleByTumorType/id/819/tumorCategory/Lymphoma/article_id/1926
Targeted Therapies for Advanced BRAF-mutated Melanoma
http://curetoday.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/article.showArticleByTumorType/id/826/tumorCategory/Skin/article_id/1925
“Super Herceptin” (T-DM1) Excels in HER2 Breast Cancer Trial
http://curetoday.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/article.showArticleByTumorType/id/805/tumorCategory/Breast/article_id/1924
Research in Vaccine Therapy for Cancer is Paying Off
http://curetoday.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/article.show/id/2/article_id/1933
Hodgkin Survivors may Face Higher Breast Cancer Risk
http://www.oncologystat.com/news/Hodgkin_s_Survivors_Face_High_Breast_Cancer_Risk__US.html
Increasing Lung Cancer Death Rates Among Young Women in Southern and Midwestern States
http://jco.ascopubs.org/cgi/doi/10.1200/JCO.2012.42.6098
Happy Summer! Don’t forget to stop and smell the flowers.
Nancy H. Rold, CTR
QA Unit Supervisor
Missouri Cancer Registry and Research Center