What are the responsibilities and job description for the Tumor Registrar II - Oncology Services position at uic?
This position is responsible for the abstraction of patients with cancer, analysis, and interpretation of the cancer site, extent of disease, treatment and follow-up of such patients, and case-finding as assigned. Data collection will meet the standards of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Commission on Cancer (CoC), the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program (SEER), the Illinois State Cancer Registry (ISCR), and UI Health. The role interacts with healthcare workers, physicians, and other healthcare facilities.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- CASE ABSTRACTING:
- Identifies, abstracts/codes, and enters cancer cases into database in an accurate and timely manner.
- Assures complete and accurate data are collected and maintained for all reportable malignancies, including reportable benign tumors.
- Accumulates and extracts clinical cancer-related information according to reporting guidelines and enters data into cancer registry software for all patients with reportable malignant cancer and benign tumors.
- Reviews any applicable data from the patient’s medical record, including imaging, pathology, treatment summaries, physician’s office notes, in- and out-patient visits.
- Uses knowledge of cancer disease processes, tumor nomenclature, medical terminology, medical procedures, anatomy, and physiology.
- Applies skilled judgment to know when information is missing, look for information in other sources, and resolve conflicting information.
- Identify, code, and complete a patient’s abstract in accordance with requirements of ISCR, CoC standards, SEER, and UI Health requirements.
- Ensure cases are staged using the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) cancer staging manual.
- When available, provide any treatments received, and follow-up information, including recurrence or metastasis, so cases can be transmitted to the state and national databases at least monthly.
- CASE FINDING:
- Using all relevant resources, identify reportable cases by reviewing pathology reports and disease indices, as assigned.
- Determine new or multiple primary cancers using ambiguous terminology rules and Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) solid tumor rules (multiple primary/histology).
- FOLLOW-UP:
- Assist, as assigned, with patient follow-up using available resources including the electronic health record and daily obituaries.
- TEAMWORK:
- Contribute to a positive and successful work environment, maintain an efficient workflow, and participate in team meetings and discussions as appropriate.
- Maintain ODS-C certification as required by the position.
- Stay abreast of industry changes by regulatory organizations, learn from constructive feedback, and work independently.
- Apply new guidelines and processes to the abstraction of cases.
- Communicate with the Manager, Cancer Accreditation & Quality to resolve any identified issues or concerns.
- Perform other related duties and participate in special projects as assigned.
