Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today. 

Collects necessary data to ensure patients with a diagnosis of malignancy are identified and information pertaining to the type, extent of disease, treatment and survival is documented.  Identifies and provides the necessary data for ongoing research investigations, and ensures the quality of statistical data.  Provides clinical patient follow-up over a prolonged period to ensure quality patient care and ascertain patient outcome.

As a successful candidate, you will: 

• Reviews reports from Pathology, Cytology, Radiation Oncology and Nuclear Medicine patient treatment lists and New Patient Registration.  
• Identifies each new case with a malignant disease and benign cases reportable by agreement.
• Abstracts information on each newly identified case obtaining core information from the patient's medical record.
• Enters data in compliance with the State of California mandatory reporting guidelines and ACoS reporting guidelines when appropriate.
• Provides follow-up information for requests from outside Cancer Registries and physicians.
• Assists in data retrieval to be used by clinicians, epidemiologists and other researchers on cancer related studies and research projects.
• Assists supervisor in identifying problems to be brought to Cancer Committee or to the Quality Assurance Committee.
• Maintains liaison with the medical community and allied health professions, local, state and national health organizations, professional societies and other Cancer Registries.

Your qualifications should include: 

• High School or equivalent

• Post High School Vocational/Specialized Training

• 2 years in allied health profession with at least 1 year as Cancer Registrar or completion of the Cancer Information Management program or equivalent, including passing the CTR exam within one year of employment.

• Working knowledge of anatomy and physiology, basic statistics and medical records ops

• Current certification by the National Cancer Registrars Association or procurement of the CTR certification by passing the CTR exam within one year of employment.

City of Hope employees pay is based on the following criteria: work experience, qualifications, and work location.

City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer.

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