Newsletter October 2024

TUMOR TIP - KIDNEY
Solid Tumor Rules-Kidney Note 4:

Transitional cell carcinoma rarely arises in the kidney C649. It usually arises in the renal pelvis C659. Only code a transitional cell carcinoma for kidney in the rare instance when pathology confirms the tumor originated in the kidney.

TUMOR TIP – COLON

Invasion into pericolonic/pericolorectal tissue can be either localized (code 1) or regional (code 2), depending on the primary site and whether it is peritonealized (fully or partially) or not.  See Summary Stage-Colon notes 6 and 7 for full explanation.

TUMOR TIP - LIVER

For cases diagnosed 2023 and forward, use the new Solid Tumor Rules-Other Sites Table 9a for determining histology and primary site for liver and intrahepatic bile duct cancers. https://seer.cancer.gov/tools/solidtumor/current/STM_Other_Sites.pdf

Free Training and CE Opportunities

Seer Educate - https://educate.fredhutch.org/Identity/Account/Login?ReturnUrl=%2F

NPCR Success Stories Quizzes (Total 5 CE credits) - NPCR (cancerregistryeducation.org)

NPCR (cancerregistryeducation.org)

The 2024 SEER Advanced Topics for Registry Professionals Workshop is open to ALL cancer registrars and will be held virtually on Tuesday – Thursday, September 24-26, 2024, 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm Eastern time. The workshop will expand registrars' knowledge of several important topics: in-depth coding for mixed histologies, neoadjuvant treatment for breast, esophageal, and rectal cases, and more. There will be presentations from subject matter experts including surgeons, pathologists, and oncologists.

SEER Workshop Registration - Free!

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STORE MANUAL

SUMMARY STAGE

SSDI - GRADE

SOLID TUMOR RULES

HEMA-LYMPHOID NEOPLASM DATABASE

DRUG DATABASE

Cancer Awareness for October-Breast Cancer

Breast Cancer Awareness Month is an international health campaign that’s held every October. The month aims to promote screening and prevention of the disease, which affects 2.3 million women worldwide.  Within the month of October, there are also specific dates designed to raise awareness of specific groups within the breast cancer community. 

October 13 – Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day

October 17 to 23– Men’s Breast Cancer Awareness Week

https://www.breastcancer.org/

https://www.cancer.gov/types/breast/hp

 Congratulations to those who recently passed the ODS exam!

Felicia Megehee at Forrest General, Hattiesburg

Lakeshia Evans at UMMC, Jackson

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 

THANK YOU TO ALL WHO ATTENDED THE MCR ANNUAL FALL WORKSHOP!

THE HYBRID FORMAT WAS A BIG SUCCESS, AND WE APPRECIATE ALL OF THE FEEDBACK GIVEN. 

WE LOOK FORWARD TO NEXT YEAR’S PRESENTATION.