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Newsletter January 2025
WORDS TO THE WISE
RESOURCES AND TIPS FOR MISSISSIPPI'S ONCOLOGY DATA SPECIALISTS
Treatment Summary Surgery of Primary Site (NAACCR Data Item #1290) for Non-Malignant Brain Tumors
Valid Codes (RX Summ – Surg 2023 for diagnosis years 2023+)
NO SPECIMEN SENT TO PATHOLOGY:
A000 – NO SURGERY
A100-TUMOR DESTRUCTION, NOS
SPECIMEN SENT TO PATHOLOGY:
A200 – Local excision of tumor, lesion, or mass; excisional biopsy
A210 – Subtotal resection of tumor, lesion, or mass in brain
A220 – Resection of tumor of spinal cord or nerve
A300 – Radical, total, gross resection of tumor, lesion, or mass in brain
A400 – Partial resection of lobe of brain when surgery can’t be coded as A200-A300
A550 – Gross total resection of lobe of brain (lobectomy)
FLccSC New for January
The FLccSC site is still down, but NAACCR has given us permission to share access to its webinars. If you are providing ODS services to a Mississippi facility, email me at lhamel@umc.edu and I can send you the links for recent webinars.
Congratulations to MCR staff member Laken Summers for passing her ODS exam!
NCRA Updated Mini-Learning Shorts: Using the Manuals, Breast Cases (video updated Fall 2024) presented by Cynthia Jeffrey of NCRA Education Committee
https://www.cancerregistryeducation.org/best-practices
Free Training and CE’s! SEER Educate New Releases 2025 https://educate.fredhutch.org/Identity/Account/Login?ReturnUrl=%2F
For those taking the ODS exam:
- CoC Standards – 150 questions
- Synoptic Reporting Standards – 30 questions
- Quality Initiatives Standard – 20 questions
New for Category A CE’s (new and experienced professionals)
DX 2024 Histology for CE’s – 100 cases
SUMMARY STAGE
SSDI - GRADE
SOLID TUMOR RULES
HEMA-LYMPHOID NEOPLASM DATABASE
DRUG DATABASE
Mississippi Cancer Registry Home Page
Director UMMC & MCR: Deirdre Rogers, dbrogers@umc.edu
MCR Manager: Angel Davis, adavis6@umc.edu
Clinical Systems Analyst-Intermediate: Tresheena Boyd, tboyd@umc.edu
Data Quality Analyst–Trainer: Lisa Hamel, lhamel@umc.edu
Electronic Data Source Coordinator: Madeline Hall, mnhall@umc.edu
ODS-C Stacy Major, semajor@umc.edu
ODS-C Mallory R. Israel, misrael@umc.edu
ODS Laken A. Frederick, lfrederick@umc.edu
ODS Melody Brenemen, mbrenemen@umc.edu
Admin. Assistant Michelle Smith, mrsmith2@umc.edu
MISSISSIPPI CANCER REGISTRY WILL BE CLOSED THE FOLLOWING DAYS:
- JANUARY 20, MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY