Tumor Registrar, II

Job description

Overview Northside Hospital is award-winning, state-of-the-art, and continually growing. Constantly expanding the quality and reach of our care to our patients and communities creates even more opportunity for the best healthcare professionals in Atlanta and beyond. Discover all the possibilities of a career at Northside today. Responsibilities: Abstracts and benign processes for the oncology database in accordance to standards of the Cancer Committee, Georgia Center for Cancer Statistics, SEER, American College of Surgeons and other accrediting agencies across all Northside facilities. Obtains, organizes, and manages cancer data for use in various quality improvement and investigative studies. PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: 1. Abstracts comprehensive data set in a timely manner utilizing pathology reports, radiology reports, treatment records, laboratory values, and other pertinent records, including non-hospital records, to document diagnosis, stage, disease extent, treatment, and response. 2. Abstracts all primary sites in accordance with multiple primary rules established by SEER and American College of Surgeons. 3. Employs defensive abstracting techniques for utilization...