Mcr Mini-Update

MCR MINI-UPDATE

MARCH 2017

February has been a busy month at MCR! We submitted our 5-year grant application and work plan via DHSS to CDC. We are working out details on an ovarian cancer patterns of care study for CDC.I have been working on a presentation for eMHiMA in St. Louis this Saturday. We also hosted a distinguished visitor from the Ministry of Public Health in Afghanistan.He is developing a cancer control program for his country and was very interested in clinical procedures at Ellis Fischel Cancer Center as well as the design of MCR registry operations. It made me appreciative of the health care available in the United States when we heard that his entire country currently has only one medical oncologist, no radiation treatment facilities and just one 22-bed cancer unit. We wish them well in their efforts to build the needed oncology resources.

DUE DATES

Large hospitals (>500 cases/yr) are to report August 2016 cases by March 15 and smaller facilities (<300 cases /yr) report the 3rd Quarter of 2016 by April 15, 2017.

EDUCATION

NAACCR Webinars

Live: March 2, 2017, 8-11 a.m., Abstracting and Coding Boot Camp: Cancer Case Scenarios. To attend the live broadcast in Columbia, sign up here: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0e49a4a82caafa7-naaccr14

NAACCR Recordings: Earn 3 CEs by viewing recorded webinars. Check out our Education and Training page to find out how you can receive access to the recorded NAACCR Webinars. http://mcr.umh.edu/mcr-education.php

GoToMeeting

GoToMeeting Recordings: Previous GoToMeeting presentations are posted to the MCR website as recordings. http://mcr.umh.edu/mcr-education.php

Fundamentals of Abstracting Workshop

Fundamentals of Abstracting Workshop is a 1.5 day course held in Columbia, MO at the offices of the Missouri Cancer Registry and Research Center. This is a free class and which is geared toward new abstractors who are not familiar with the abstracting process. The MCR Abstract Code Manual is reviewed in detail. Students also get hands-on experience working through cases using Abstract Plus software and the manual. For those not familiar with the nuances of abstracting Missouri cases, this workshop is a great place to learn, practice and get your questions answered.

Date & Time: Monday 03/27/2017, 1-5 p.m. & Tuesday 03/28/2017, 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Location: Mo Cancer Registry and Research Center - Columbia MO (Clark Hall, MU campus) Room 426

Basic Registry Training

A two-day course which presents an overview of staging formats, different types of treatment (surgery radiation & chemo), central registry background, ACoS requirements, case finding, follow-up, statistics, etc. and provides a general overview of what a cancer registry is. The audience includes RHIT students as well as new registrars.

Date & Time: Monday 03/06/2017, 8-4 p.m. & Tuesday 03/07/2017, 8-4 p.m.

Location: N. Kansas City Hospital, 2800 Clay Edwards Drive, N. Kansas City, MO, 64116. (Frontier Room)

MCR Help-Line

Reach us at 1-800-392-2829 during regular office hours, or leave a message; a member of our QA team will return your call within one business day.

Massachusetts Free Educational Webcast

Save the Date Tuesday May 16, 2017 8 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Once again, the Massachusetts Cancer Registry and Dana-Farber institute will sponsor a free all-day webcast. An agenda and links will be posted here when available. You can listen to any or all of the presentations from your computer or device. In the past, many of the presentations have been NCRA pre-approved for continuing education

Florida Cancer Data System (FCDS)

FCDS Educational Webcast Series -2/16/2017 Female GYN Sites: Ovary, Adnexa & Peritoneum, Uterus, Cervix, Vagina, and Vulva. To View Recording: https://fcds.med.miami.edu/inc/educationtraining.shtml (FCDS Webcasts Tab)

Free Webinar: Registrar's Guide to Registry Resources - March 7

NCRA is offering a complimentary webinar entitled Registrar's Guide to Registry Resources on March 7, 2017, at 2:00 p.m. ET. The presenter is Vicki Hawhee, MEd, CTR. The "Registry Resources Guide" first appeared in the Journal of Registry Management in 2015. It was updated by Hawhee for the fall 2016 edition. The webinar will introduce you to the many resources available at your fingertips to enhance your value to the registry. Hawhee will also highlight how the guide can be used as a resource to educate your information technology team on how cancer registry data is captured and reported, along with the websites and books where the information is located. It has been designed for those new to the field as well as seasoned professionals looking to brush-up on their skills. The webinar is complimentary, but you must register. The webinar does not include CEs. Register today!

MCR NEWS

NAACCR & MO V16D edits

NAACCR v16D edits were recently released nationally. Hopefully, it will resolve all remaining problem edits.I will have a Missouri-customized version sent to vendors in the next week or two.We will work with Registry Plus programmers to release an update for Abstract Plus because it will require some additional programming with the new metafile. Watch for a separate email this month announcing the availability of the new metafile.It will be used with 2016 and 2017 diagnosis cases. You may continue to send MCR cases using the MO v16C metafile until you have the v16D installed.

ABSTRACTING TIPS

Incomplete SSNs

Remember that MCR needs a complete Social Security Number for each patient.The field does not allow partial numbers. Please don’t enter a fake number such as 111-11- with last 4 digits of the actual SSN. Ask for access to the 9-digit number in your hospital registration or billing system for state-required reporting, If the full number is truly not given or only partially provided by the patient, enter all 9’s and state the last 4 digits of the code in a text box.

STANDARD SETTER NEWS

SEER Manuals for Sale

Thanks to sharp pair of registrars, we were alerted to the fact that used copies of the paperback SEER Summary Staging Manual 2000 are being listed for sale on the internet. While the current prices range from $26 to $108, there was a previous copy listed at $2,343.00!!! Please remember that while the paper manual is no longer being published by SEER, they had always been free government publications. You can currently download a free electronic copy from the SEER website and annotate the pdf with e-sticky notes so that it functions much like a paper copy. All registrars should be using the manual to direct code the SS00 field, but you do not have to purchase a paper version to do so. The free electronic copy should be sufficient unless paper is a personal preference of yours and you are willing to print or purchase your own copy.

Revisions to 2017 NAACCR Document

There has been some recent discussion regarding the contents of Appendix B in the “What You Need to Know for 2017” document. It seems likely that a revision to Appendix B “Histology Coding Clarifications for Lung and Thyroid Cases” will be forthcoming. Stay tuned! More information will be relayed to you once it is available.

http://news.naaccr.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/What-you-need-to-know-for-2017.pdf

From NPCR TNM Questions

Updated process for sending TNM questions to CAnswerForum:

1. ETC (Jennifer Sedovic at MCR ) will receive all questions from you, our state reporters; ETC will review/determine if Q&A is currently posted on the CAnswerForum.

2. If it is not already posted on the CAnswerForum, then the ETC will submit the question to the CAnswer Forum and receive backup from NPCR to assure an adequate answer is published.

REGISTRY TO RESEARCH

National Cancer Institute Cancer Trends Progress Report (SEER data).

https://progressreport.cancer.gov/data-sources

RESOURCES AND NEWS OF INTEREST

The Eighth Edition AJCC Cancer Staging Manual: Continuing to Build a Bridge from a Population-based to a More “Personalized” Approach to Cancer Staging

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3322/caac.21388/abstract?campaign=wolearlyview

Shape of Prostate and Compartments within May Serve as Cancer Indicators

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/02/170201121543.htm

Prostate Cancer Game Changer

http://www.everydayhealth.com/columns/gerald-chodak-the-prostate-cancer-doc/a-potential-game-changer-for-men-with-newly-diagnosed-metastatic-prostate-cancer/?pos=1&xid=nl_EverydayHealthHealthyLiving_20170201

Why Is Cancer More Common in Men?

http://harvardmagazine.com/2017/03/why-is-cancer-more-common-in-men

Nancy H. Rold, CTR

Operations Manager

Missouri Cancer Registry and Research Center