Presentation 7 - Data Submission
By law, all cancer registries must submit data to their state’s cancer registry. Additionally, hospital cancer programs accredited by the Commission on Cancer (CoC) submit their data to the National Cancer Data Base (NCDB) on an annual basis. Cancer registrars are essential to the data submission process. They compile the data and run edits to ensure there are no errors in the abstracts. Once the data is clean of errors, it is submitted electronically. No patient-identifying indicators are sent to NCDB.
Learning Objectives:
Discuss the purpose and benefit of submitting data
Identify the organizations data is submitted to
Review the type of data submitted
Explain the cancer registrar’s role in data submission