Legacy Health

Cancer Registrar, Certified

Equal Opportunity Employer/Vet/Disabled
US-OR-

Job ID: 26-49164
Type: Regular Full-Time
Homebased EE Oregon

Overview

In the fight against cancer, it takes a team of experts from various disciplines to provide the information and insights that make a meaningful difference. In cancer data management, this includes professionals who review pathology reports, radiation oncology data imports, and other sources to identify new cancer cases, as well as abstract, collect, and analyze treatment and follow-up information.

If you possess these skills and want to be part of a healthcare community committed to improving lives, we invite you to consider this opportunity as an Oncology Data Specialist.

This is a remote position (OR/WA only). All new hires are required to come to a designated Legacy Health office location in Portland, Oregon prior to their start date for a new hire health assessment and to complete new hire paperwork.

Responsibilities

• Collect, interpret, and report cancer data to evaluate and improve cancer screening, diagnosis, treatment, and survival outcomes.
• Requires applying continually advancing, evidence-based treatment guidelines to collect, abstract, analyze and report cancer data as required by the States of Oregon and Washington law, and as defined by the Commission on Cancer (CoC) and Legacy Cancer Institute.
• The complex and highly specialized data abstraction includes a comprehensive understanding of, but not limited to, cancer case reportability (tumor sites and histology), patient work up/evaluations (history and physical, scans, laboratory tests, genetics testing, molecular markers, pathology reports), first course of treatment (applicable surgery, medical oncology, radiation oncology, palliative treatment) and yearly patient follow up for current cancer and vital status.
• Must maintain specialized knowledge within the rapidly advancing field of oncology treatment and the data reporting guidelines and rules to meet the complex industry standards.
• Current knowledge base is maintained through ongoing education, as well as self-directed studies/research, using all tools and resources made available through the data standard setters, CoC, SEER, NAACCR, NCCN Treatment Guidelines, College of American Pathology, AJCC Cancer Staging, and the States of Oregon and Washington.
• Maintaining a current knowledge base of various information systems and a complex cancer registry database is required.
• Contributing to problem solving and team education within a rapidly changing working environment is a must.

Qualifications

Experience:

• Experience in hospital or central Cancer Registry preferred.
• Experience within ACS approved Cancer Programs preferred.
• Experience with a cancer registry database required.

Skills:

• General computer skills, knowledge of diagnosis, cancer work up, cancer treatment, and Cancer Data coding systems, i.e. ICD-0, ICD-10 CM coding.
• Standards for Oncology Registry Entry Manual (STORE), American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC), Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program (SEER).
• Primary Site-Specific Data Items (SSDI), ACoS Commission on Cancer Program (COC) Standards.
• North American Association of Central Registries (NAACCR) standards, and National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC) standards.
• National Comprehensive Cancer Clinical Practice Evidence based Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines, College of American Pathology (CAPS) protocols.
• Organization and communication skills.