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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

STORE MANUAL

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