MCR MINI-UPDATE MAY 2014
Fellow Registrars,
Bring on the May flowers; I’ve had enough rainy days!I hope some of you will be able to travel to Nashville this month for the NCRA meeting.The NPCR education coordinators from each state will meet separately there for a day to learn more about how to prepare registrars for staging transitions that will take effect by 2016.
DUE DATES
Large hospitals (>500 cases/yr) are to report October 2013 cases by May 15, 2014.
EDUCATION
To register for any of our educational opportunities, this time please email Nancy Rold at
NAACCR Webinar:May 1, 2014 – Collecting Cancer Data: Colon & Rectum
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Live Meeting:May 14, 2014 – Multiple Primary and Histology Rules: Colon
Presented by Angela Martin
Please submit any colon cases that you have questions on in regard to the Multiple Primary and Histology Rules. We may review them in our Live Meeting presentation. Please submit them to Angela Martin, y May 5.
Visit our Education and Training page to listen to previous Live Meetings. They are available to listen to for one year after they are presented.
MCR NEWS
MCR Manual
Publication of the MCR Manual for 2014 continues to be on hold pending release of FORDS and SEER manuals for 2014.
Conversion Timing Reminder
Your software vendors should be on track to finish customizing their product for NAACCR and Missouri v14 no later than June. We would like you to convert your software to v14 when you finish abstracting 2013 cases or in July, whichever comes first. MCR plans to convert all of our software, including Web Plus, to v14 in July and to begin accepting cases in v14 by August.It is best to export any completed cases to us before you convert. Don’t complete any 2014 diagnosed cases until after you have converted to v14. If you convert to v14 before Web Plus is converted, just hold the cases until Web Plus is ready (but upload a transmittal form of explanation). We will have more specific announcements as that time approaches.
Our June 11 Live Meeting will address What’s New in CSv2.05 and will have tips on the small amount of manual review that will need to be done during software conversion.This information is on the CS website under Coding Instructions, Version 02.05, Support Documents, Implementation Guide and Release Notes.
NAACCR 2014Meeting
MCR has had the following accepted for the 2014 meeting in June in Ottawa.
Posters
A Missouri Model for Batch Audit Quality Assessment - Nancy Rold, Deb Smith, Chester Schmaltz
Use of Live Meeting to Conduct Interactive Quality Review of Data from a Multi-campus Healthcare System - Bec Francis
Presentation
Challenges and Opportunities for Cancer Registries with Meaningful Use Stages 2 and 3 – Iris Zachary
Heartbleed
As we reported in a previous blast email, the MCR-ARC Web Plus Data Submission website is not vulnerable to the Heartbleed bug. It is safe to continue to submit your data to MCR-ARC via this website. The MU Division of IT does not host our web site on technology that is susceptible.
Abstracting Tip
Cystoprostatectomy: The surgery code for cystoprostatectomy that is done for bladder primaries is often incorrectly entered as 61. The correct code for this procedure is 71 (see Appendix B of FORDS 2013).Code the most extensive site-specific surgery that was performed for the primary.Note: per MCR Manual p. 63 we use FORDS Appendix B as the authority on site-specific surgery code instructions. If you use Registry Plus Online Help, don’t follow the additional SEER guidelines that have been added in brackets after code 60.
STANDARD SETTER NEWS
ICD-10-CM
On March 31, Congress passed the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) Bill that extends the proposed physician rate reduction for one year, but which also includes language that delays the compliance deadline for converting to the ICD-10 system of diagnostic and procedural coding from October 1, 2014, to not before October 1, 2015.
Standards for Cancer Registries Volume II, Version 16 Data Standards and Data Dictionary:
The NAACCR Standards for Cancer Registries Volume II, Version 15 (2015 Implementation) is scheduled for release by July 1, 2014. New survival data items will be added to facilitate a common approach to survival analysis and there will be new codes for Sex [NAACCR item # 220] (code 5 Transsexual, male to female, and code 6 Transsexual, female to male).
From CoC: New FIGO rules to be incorporated in AJCC 8th edition
The International Federation of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (FIGO) has developed new staging rules for ovarian, fallopian tube, and primary peritoneal cancers. These rules will be incorporated into the 8th Edition of the American Joint Committee on Cancer’s (AJCC) Cancer Staging System. Until then, all nationally collected U.S. cancer statistics data for ovarian, fallopian tube, and primary peritoneal cancers must be based on the current AJCC Cancer Staging Manual (7th Edition).
RESOURCES
CancerCare Telephone Workshops
Free teleconferences/webcasts, Connect Education WorkshopsTM, give you the latest cancer information straight from leading experts. You can listen in live by telephone or online, and you will have a chance to ask the experts your own questions.
Calendar
5/2New Perspectives in the Treatment of Basal Cell and Squamous Cell Cancers
5/9Emerging Treatments for Metastatic Melanoma
5/16Treatment Update on Mantle Cell Lymphoma
5/19 Understanding Treatment-Related Rash and Dry Skin
5/20Everything You Want to Know About the Affordable Care Act in 2014
5/21Helping Children and Teens Cope with MPN in the Family
5/23The Role of Immuno-Oncology in the Treatment of Melanoma
6/17 Advances in the Treatment of Lung Cancer
6/24 Advances in the Treatment of Metastatic Prostate Cancer
Register online, or call 800-813-HOPE (4673). Missed a Connect Education Workshop? Listen to past workshops aspodcasts throughCancerCare's website.
Opportunities for cancer prevention in midlife (series of articles)
State of cancer care in America: 2014 (ASCO Infographic)
Lung cancer trends 2005-2009
Prognostic significance of Gleasons score in metastatic prostate cancer
Sorafenib (Nexavar) approved for late-stage thyroid cancer
Ceritinib (Zykadia) approved for late-stage lung cancer
Meaningful Use and the Cancer Registrar
Please share this Update with others and let me know if you have any questions.
Nancy H. Rold, CTR
QA Unit Supervisor
Missouri Cancer Registry and Research Center