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Certified Tumor Registrar - curiousmt

Posted: Jun 09, 2011

I have a question, if someone would be so kind.

What is the protocol of becoming a Certified Tumor Registrar? Does this happen after one has been coding for awhile? Are there certain credentials? I have researched online and am still confused.

Thank you!

Cancer Tumor Registry - curiousmt

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No worries, I researched and found my answers. :)

Cancer Tumor Registry - Bizzi

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I'm curious....What did you find out?

CTR - curiousMT

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Well, I found out that one can return to school and get an associates degree or a certificate to become a CTR. Or, it is possible to combine a certain number of work experience with school. A CTR works with a lot of data, analyzing, etc. It sounds very interesting and very important in order to obtain stats for cancer research and many other uses. What I am NOT sure of is whether a Cancer Tumor Registrar needs to be a coder FIRST. I have written to a couple folks in order to find this out because I have found inconsistent answers to this. Just from surface information, it appears to me that becoming a coder would make becoming a CTR extremely easier and one would obviously be more educated in this realm.

As far as work environments, CTRs mostly work at cancer centers or at research cancer centers. For instance, I lived near Pittsburgh which has the Univ. of Pittsburgh research medical center, and they have 40 full-time registrars. According to statistics from 2008, there are only 3600 in the country.

Feel free to correct any of this information as it has all come from the internet, and I do not claim any of it as completely true.

CTR - Bizzi

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Interesting....and thank you for the reply. I've been rather interested in this field also.

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