Annual Report 2019

Office of Cancer Registry

Takashi Kojima, Yumi Ishii, Yayoi Ohtsuka, Maiko Miura, Miwa Yamada, Shizue Kawashima, Maya Tamura, Mika Itou, Mieko Noguchi, Emi Mori

Introduction

 The Office of Cancer Registry is a department for executing a hospital-based cancer registry.

The Team and What We Do

 The number of diagnostic cases registered in 2018 in the hospital cancer registry (the first visit of cancer patients diagnosed from January to December in our hospital) was 6,645 (of which, initial treatment conducted in our hospital: 4,859 cases; in our hospital diagnosis only: 164 cases; after the start of treatment at another hospital: 1,011 cases; and diagnosis and treatment at another hospital (second opinions not included): 611 cases). The number of new registrations shows that the number of female patients has been consistently less over time than male patients due to irregular situations according to department (see Table 1).

 We cooperate with the trial operation of software related to health information management, and the new functions of the Hos-CanR NEXT software are provided to other facilities after trial operation at our hospital and National Cancer Center Hospital etc.

 Also, in cooperation with biobank-related research, we have developed questionnaire input software common to Advanced and Specialized Medical Care and are using it to register questionnaire information.

Table 1. Number of cancer registrations at the NCCH-East

Education

 The Office of Cancer Registry trains cancer registrants and currently has two people with beginner's authorization and three with intermediate authorization.

Future prospects

 The results of a hospital-based cancer registry have been transmitted to each department by a server through a nosocomial network within the hospital information system.