CANCER REGISTRATION ONLINE COURSE: DAY 4 QUIZ

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* 1. While undertaking case finding and abstraction you come across the following dates in a patient’s file. Upon ascertaining that the case is reportable pick a higher priority date as the incidence date.

Date the MRI was reported by radiologist

Date the blood sample was taken for Full Haemograph

Date of admission to the hospital because of the tumour

Date the referral letter from a local clinic was written

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* 2. A cancer registrar came upon a case that had been abstracted two months before. The date of incidence then was based on outpatient notes by a clinician whose conclusion was "suspected gastric tumour". The registrar has noticed that there is a biopsy report in the file with a diagnosis “Gastrointestinal stromal tumour (GIST)”. The registrar is not sure whether to change the date or not. What is your advice?

Do not change the date from the outpatient notes

Change to the date the pathologist reported the result

Change to the date the pathologist received the specimen in his lab

Change to the date the specimen was collected

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* 3. Survival analysis is only possible when up to date follow up of patients has been undertaken and last contact date information documented.

True

False

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* 4. It is possible to do follow-up of patients even when vital information such as name, telephone number, address or a unique identifier are missing.

True

False

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* 5. Cancer registries review the death certificate in order to identify a single, disease-specific, underlying cause of death, which may or may not be the cancer.

True

False