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What is a Cancer Registry?
A cancer registry is an information system designed for the collection, management and analysis of data on persons with a diagnosis of cancer or malignancy.
The CVMC Cancer Registry is a health care institution registry that is responsible for maintaining a data base of all patients diagnosed and/or treated with cancer at CVMC. The Registry, in accordance with State statute, collects, manages and analyzes data for eligible patients with a diagnosis of cancer, from initial diagnosis through the first course of treatment.
The cancer registrar is has obtained specific training and is certified to perform the functions of this job. The cancer registrar is charged with identifying cancer cases, maintaining data for those cases, as well as reporting all cases that meet State of Vermont eligibility requirements. The process often involves exhaustive searches of the facility’s medical records for reportable cases of cancer, by review of pathology and radiology reports, discharge summaries, as well as other sources.
The CVMC Cancer Registry is required to report cases monthly to the State of Vermont Cancer Registry (VCR). The VCR, which is a central registry, relies heavily on the hospital registrar to report high quality data in an accurate and timely manner. The VCR uses the information submitted by health care facilities to track cancer incidence and improve our understanding of cancer in Vermont’s population, in an effort to reduce illness and death from cancer.
In calendar year 2005, 291 new cancer cases were accessioned into the CVMC Registry data base and subsequently reported to the VCR. The CVMC Registry has a reference (start) date of November 1, 1993. Presently, there are a total of approximately 3400 cases in the registry data base.
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