Cancer Program Annual Report - St. Clair Hospital

Percentage of New Cases of Cancer
Oncology Registry Report
St. Clair Hospital’s Oncology Registry is staffed by one full-time Registry Supervisor and a full-time registrar
both of whom are Certified Tumor Registrars (CTR). A Registered Nurse works in the Registry 3 days a week
coordinating Cancer Care Conferences and facilitating education credits for the nursing staff. The Registry
supervisor and registrar perform all functions of the registry which includes case finding, abstracting, follow-up
and reporting to the State Department of Health and National Cancer Data Base (NCDB). The Registry utilizes
the Metriq Cancer Registry software package, which enables the Registry to maintain accurate data collection,
prepare multiple reports, and respond to various requests for data and Oncology Registry information. The
Oncology Registry staff abstract data according to the 2010 FORDS (Facility Oncology Registry Data
Standards) Manual.
The Seventh Edition of the AJCC (American Joint Committee on Cancer) provides staging guidelines for
physicians and the Oncology Registrars. As members of the Cancer Care Committee, the Oncology Registry
staff assists in the preparation for and attends quarterly Cancer Care Committee meetings and collaborated with
other members to conduct Quality Improvement and Patient Care Evaluation Studies.
All Registry staff attends the weekly Cancer Care Conferences. In 2010, the Oncology Registry staff regularly
attended continuing education sessions provided by such organizations as the Pennsylvania Association of
Cancer Registrars, Pennsylvania Department of Health and the National Cancer Registrars Association.
2010 Incidence of Cancer
St. Clair vs. PA and U.S. Estimates
Based on ACS Cancer Facts & Figures-2010
25.0
20.0
15.0
10.0
5.0
0.0
St. Clair
PA
U.S.
Top Five Sites
Figure 1 see incidence.xls
Figure 1 illustrates the leading sites of cancer incidence for St. Clair Hospital, Pennsylvania, and the United
States. The most frequently occurring sites are prostate, lung, colorectal, breast, and bladder. This data also
includes female only breast cancer cases. The state and national data is taken from the American Cancer
Society’s 2010 edition of Cancer Facts and Figures and includes estimated figures. With the reference date
being 1993, the Oncology Registry database consists of over 12,060 analytic cases.
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