Cancer Registrar
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Cancer Registrar documenting diagnoses, treatment, survival, and follow-up data for City of Hope’s nationwide cancer-care system. Supporting reporting, research, and quality assurance.
Responsibilities:
- Collect data identifying patients with malignant diagnoses and document disease type, extent, treatment, and survival
- Identify new malignant and reportable benign cases from pathology, cytology, radiation oncology, nuclear medicine, and new patient registration reports
- Abstract core information from patients’ medical records
- Enter data according to State of California mandatory reporting and ACoS reporting guidelines
- Provide follow-up information to outside cancer registries and physicians
- Assist clinicians, epidemiologists, and researchers with cancer-related data retrieval and research projects
- Assist the supervisor in identifying problems for Cancer Committee or Quality Assurance Committee review
- Maintain liaison with medical communities, allied health professionals, health organizations, professional societies, and cancer registries
- Provide prolonged clinical patient follow-up to support quality care and determine patient outcomes
- Ensure the quality of statistical data
Requirements:
- High School or equivalent
- Post High School Vocational/Specialized Training
- 2 years in an allied health profession with at least 1 year as a Cancer Registrar, or completion of the Cancer Information Management program or equivalent
- Current certification by the National Cancer Registrars Association, or procurement of CTR certification by passing the CTR exam within one year of employment
- Working knowledge of anatomy and physiology
- Working knowledge of basic statistics
- Working knowledge of medical records operations
- If completing the Cancer Information Management program or equivalent, must pass the CTR exam within one year of employment
Benefits:
- Comprehensive Benefits (linked in the posting)
