Self Instructional Manual for Cancer Registrars - SEER - National ...

AJCC American Joint Committee on Cancer: Organized in 1959 for the purpose of clinical
staging, the AJCC decided to use the TNM system of the UICC to develop its own
system of clinical and pathologic staging. Cooperation between 1982-87 has resulted
in uniform and identical definitions and stage groupings of cancer for all sites between
UICC and AJCC.
AMA American Medical Association: A professional organization of practicing physicians.
It also provides coordination and direction for allied health education to establish and
maintain appropriate standards of patient care through its accreditation of allied
medical education programs.
ASCO American Society of Clinical 0neology: A society of oncologists, primarily medical,
for the dissemination and exchange of cancer information.
ASSO American Society of Surgical Oncolo_: A society of surgical oncologists for
dissemination and exchange of cancer information.
CCOP Community Clinical Ontology Program; A cooperative agreement supported program
which provides support to community-based oncologists to participate in clinical trials
sponsored by the clinical cooperative groups and/or cancer centers.
COC Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons: Representing 28
national professional organizations, the Commission seeks multidisciplinary cooperation
in cancer management. It establishes standards for approval of cancer
programs, stimulates cancer programs in institutions and communities, develops
nationwide patient care evaluation studies of specific organ sites and types of
malignancy as well as symposia and postgraduate courses on cancer for physicians.
JCAHCO Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations (Formerly Joint
Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals): Provides standards for accreditation of
health care organizations and conducts surveys to determine an organization's degree
of compliance and provides acceptable ways to bring the organization into compliance.
NTRA National Tumor Registrars Association: A professional organization to promote the
level of knowledge and performance of tumor registrars through educational standards
and continuing education as well as to improve and standardize the compiling of
tumor registry information.
NAACCR North American Association of Central Cancer Registries: A professional society
whose members are, for the most part, from population-based registries interested in
the development and application of cancer registration and morbidity survey
techniques to studies of defined population groups and to the conduct of cancer
control programs.
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