2024 CTR Practice Exam

2024 CTR Practice Exam Complete Questions & Answers (Solved) 100% Correct

• A unique nine-digit number assigned to a patient, which indicates the year the

patient was first seen at the facility and the sequential order in which the patient was

identified by the registry is called:

Answer: an accession number

2. AJCC is an acronym for:

Answer: American Joint Committee on Cancer

• Which of the following is a chemotherapeutic agent? Prednisone, Tamox ifen,

Levamisole, or Methotrexate

Answer: Methotrexate

4. Organization responsible for publishing disease codes:

Answer: WHO

• Each year 90% of cases must be abstracted within

months of diagnosis:

Answer: six

• The following must meet the standard for monitoring community outreach except:
• NCI-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Programs
• Affiliate Hospital Cancer program
• Freestanding Cancer Center Program
• Hospital Associate Cancer program

Answer: NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center Programs (NCIP)

• The follow up rate maintained for all eligible analytic patients from the cancer

registry reference date is or within last 5 yrs, whichever is shorter:

Answer: 90%

• Dividing the number of males by the number of females in a study is a means of

calculating the:

Answer: ratio

• A lymphoma would most likely arise in which of the following?
• thyroid gland
• Hutchinson freckle 1 / 3

• endocrine gland
• Waldeyer ring

Answer: Waldeyer ring

• The best way to display the survival rate by year of diagnosis for females with

breast cancer between 2000 and 2005 is with a: bar graph, line graph, pie chart, or summary table

Answer: line graph

• To be considered for initial accreditation, the cancer committee must ensure

that the cancer registry database includes now many years of data?

Answer: 2 years

12. Population based registries would not include:

• Dept of Defense (DoD)

2. NCDB

• National program of Central registries
• Surveillance Epidemiology & End Results

Answer: National Cancer Database (NCDB)

• The Commission on Cancer (CoC) is a consortium of professional organizations

dedicated to improving survival and quality of life for cancer patients through:

standard-setting, prevention, research, education, and the:

• promoting TNM staging
• monitoring of comprehensive quality care
• publishing disease codes
• development of the profession of cancer registry

Answer: monitoring of comprehensive quality care

14. The basic goal of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) is to ensure:

• family history data of each patient enrolled in a protocol is protected
• human subjects are screened
• study design meets the criteria of the study
• rights of human subjects are protected

Answer: the rights of human subjects are protected

15. The number of patients in a given area with cancer is called the:

Answer: prevalence rate

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• A typical policy involving patient identification in a research project should

contain which of the following?

• a list of other participants involved in the study
• the relevance & importance of the project
• the location of stored information
• monetary compensation

Answer: the relevance and importance of the project

• The NCDB provides the following to promote access to their data for researchers,

physicians, and the general public:

• published peer review journal articles
• CoC cancer program standards-2004
• hospital comparison reports
• web based benchmarking applications

Answer: web-based benchmarking applications

• Which of the following is considered part of the biliary system?
• sphincter of Oddi
• pouch of Rathke
• pouch of Douglas
• duct of Wharton

Answer: sphincter of Oddi

• A requirement for central registries is to maintain the following quality control

measure:

• list of qualified CTR consultants
• family history for each cancer case
• DCO followback
• proprietary software applications for all reporting facilities

Answer: DCO followback

• Which term represents the most frequently occurring value in a data set? mode,

mean, median, frequency: mode

• The current data standards manual used in cancer registries for cases diagnosed

on or after 2001 is the:

Answer: Facility Oncology Registry Data Standards Manual

• Reed-Sternberg cells are associated with what malignancy?

Answer: Hodgkin Lymphoma

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