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
