Cancer Registrar - Cancer Registry Non-Exempt; Non-Union

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REQThe Cancer Registrar will assure that complete and accurate data are collected and maintained for all malignant disease and/or specific benign tumors diagnosed and/or treated within Keck Medical Center and USC Verdugo Hills Hospital. Accuracy of abstracting is of utmost importance as physicians and scientists use our data to evaluate treatment methods. Additionally our data is publically compared to regional and national standards of care.

Registry abstractors must possess the ability to review data/documents accurately and consistently, accept and learn from constructive feedback, make decisions with limited information and stay abreast of changes made by regulatory organizations to maintain compliance. This position compiles cancer related patient data and supports the research, prevention, and control initiatives according to the California Cancer Registry, the American College of Surgeons, and the organizational priorities of Keck Medicine of USC.
** Essential Duties:
*** CASE ABSTRACTING:
• Identify, code and classify data from the medical record and other available documents that includes, but is not limited to: patient identification, accession number, sequence, physicians and institutions involved in the case, cancer identification, stage of disease at diagnosis, first and subsequent courses of treatment, tumor and vital status, treatment outcomes, case administration, state and organization-specific information
• Performs case-abstracting tasks in accordance with applicable facility, State of California, Federal and CoC-accreditation requirements
• Ensures that all eligible analytical cases are staged in accordance with the AJCC TNM, Collaborative Stage, SEER and other applicable staging system requirements and in accordance with the Cancer Registry staging policy and procedure.
• Maintains a 97% accuracy rating on all case abstracting as recommended by standard-setting agencies
• Maintains a minimum compliance and productivity standards as defined by the facility’s cancer registry department under the direction of the Cancer Committee
• Monitors suspense or assigned caseload to ensure that abstracting takes place within the reporting time frames as specified by the facility, state, and CoC-accreditation requirements.
• Ensures that all interactive data edits and data discrepancies are cleaned and each case is completed (as determined by the case status flag) prior to the established transmission or reporting date(s)
* CASE FINDING:
• Work with all in the institution to ensure complete case finding
• Apply all relevant multiple primary (MP/H), case reportability and ambiguous terminology rules to the case finding list by identifying any new or multiple primary cancers to be abstracted
• Using all available source documents, identifies all reportabale cases and enters each in to the cancer registry database system. Minimum information entered for all suspense cases includes, but is not limited to, specified fields in patient demographics, case identification, imaging and pathology sections of the case abstract.
• Assigns the correct accession number, sequence, year first seen, date first seen, date of diagnosis
• Responds to case to case queries, phone calls and other correspondence regarding missed cases or cases still held in suspense as requested by state, CoC, and facility staff and customers
* FOLLOW-UP:
• Assist with maintenance of CoC required lost to follow-up rates. In a systematic manner, utilizing the HER and approved internet resources, follow up is conducted by updating treatment, disease status, recording recurrence date and selecting the most appropriate recurrence type code by utilizing ACOS COC abstracting rules (FORDS/STORE), and the MP/H manual general instructions.
* IN GENERAL:
• Ability to multitask, possess good problem solving skills and attention to detail
• Ability to be a…