Monitoring the Delivery of Cancer Care: Commission on Cancer and National Cancer Data Base
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NCDB-cancer registry structure and organization
The NCDB is a joint program of the American College of Surgeons’ CoC and the American Cancer Society and is one of three main cancer registry systems in the country. The other two programs are the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR) and the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI’s) Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program. The NPCR receives information on new cancer cases from virtually every state through the system of state
Future work of the CoC and NCDB
Although significant advancements have been made in the last decade to enhance cancer care data systems in general and the NCDB in particular, much work remains to be done. Registry data currently do not incorporate patient-reported outcomes, which is a necessary component for a rounded assessment of health care quality. Also, as more effective therapies are discovered, cancer is increasingly a chronic disease with the attendant difficulties of good, long-term follow-up in a fragmented care
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