CTR Review #1

Which is a hormone therapy agent?

Taxmoxifen

Name the organization responsible for publication of the international classification of diseases for oncology?

WHO

Meaningful use is:

a Medicare incentive program for doctors.

Specificity is best defined as the ability of a test to give

a negative finding when the person tested does not have the condition

A lymphoma primary may be staged pathologically if

a staging laparotomy is performed

Highly detailed data are more often presented in the form of

a table

The cavities within the sphenoid, frontal, and maxillary bones that are part of the respiratory system are called

accessory sinuses

Casefinding in a medical facility includes

all inpatients and outpatients who meet eligibility requirements

According to the Hematopoietic Diseases Rules, the list of ambiguous terms can only be used for determining

case reportability

To see if the ascitic fluid was positive, the registrar should check the

cytology report

Confidentiality is defined as

maintaining the privacy of personal information.

To obtain a percentage

multiply the proportion in its decimal form times 100 and add a percent sign

Race is an example of

nominal data

A population-based cancer registry collects cancer data

on all residents of a defined geographic area

The inside walls of a body cavity are referred to as

parietal pluera

In TNM, the Y or y descriptor is used to describe:

pathologic staging after initial multimodality therapy

The basic attributes considered in evaluation the distribution of disease in human populations are

person, place & time

Which of the following secretes aldosterone, cortisol, androgens, estrogens and progestins?

pituitary

NAACCR silver and gold certification is awarded to what typeof registry?

population-based registry

An example of an inter-field edit check is

primary site & sex of patient

The part of the kidney that collects the urine is the

renal pelvis

An example of ordinal data

stage at diagnosis

Atelectasis is an abnormal condition of

the Lung

The Kaplan Meier Method for calculation the survival rates differs from other survival rate methods because

the calculation is only done when someone dies

The sum of all values divided by the number of values is

the mean

A vertical section of the body that divides it into the right & left portions is called:

the sagittal plane

The cardia, fundus & corpus are parts of:

the stomach

A double-blinded study means that:

the subject & the investigator do not know sich group the subject is in.

Pancoast tumors originate from:

the superior sulcus in the Lung

Cancer informatics is defined as

the systematic application of information and computer science and technology to cancer surveillance operations

When can a mortality rate be used as a good estimate of an incidence rate?

when the case fatality rate is high

Adjusted survival includes only the cases who

who died from the cancer under study

The acronym for the regulations that govern the release of protected health information to insurance companies & other users of health information is

HIPAA

The IRB is an acronym for

Institutional Review Board

Supraglottis, glottis & subglottis are subsites of:

Larynx

An excessive increase in the # of white blood (WBC) is termed:

Leukocytosis

Which would you expect to find pre-operative radiation therapy?

Adenocarcinoma of the rectum

Excluding skin cancers the 3 most common cancer in women are:

Breast, colon, lung

When abstracting a suspected primary carcinoma of the pancreas, without laparotomy, which of the following diagnostic procedures would give the best information of this site?

CT scan of the abdomen

The Central Registry process of combing the best information from multiple sources is called

Case consolidation

Chemo drugs

Cytoxan, Rituximab, Bexxar

Interoperability is defined as:

Establishing standards & processes so that computers can talk to each other.

The branch of medical science concerned with the study of the distribution of disease in a population is

descriptive epidemiology

A Phase II clinical trial

determines the safety & efficacy (dose response) of an investigational drug

The type of malignant brain tumor of the parietal lobe

glioblastoma