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The reporting of uveal melanoma cases to the cancer registry in North Carolina

OBJECTIVE: To ascertain the completeness of reporting of uveal melanoma cases in North Carolina to the state’s cancer registry. METHODS: This was a retrospective chart review performed at a single institution analyzing the completeness of information reported to the North Carolina Cancer Registry be...

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Autores principales: Gordon, Kathleen G., Carvajal, Richard D., Graham, Sharnee’ L., Houghton, Odette M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9382912/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35992848
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2022.877599
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author Gordon, Kathleen G.
Carvajal, Richard D.
Graham, Sharnee’ L.
Houghton, Odette M.
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Graham, Sharnee’ L.
Houghton, Odette M.
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description OBJECTIVE: To ascertain the completeness of reporting of uveal melanoma cases in North Carolina to the state’s cancer registry. METHODS: This was a retrospective chart review performed at a single institution analyzing the completeness of information reported to the North Carolina Cancer Registry between 2010 and 2015. A list of all patients with uveal melanoma diagnosed, treated and/or followed at UNC-Chapel Hill between 2010-2015 was compared to the list of patients with uveal melanoma reported to the North Carolina Central Cancer registry during the same time frame. RESULTS: Based on ICD 9 and 10 codes, there were 66 patients with ciliary body or choroidal melanomas diagnosed, followed and/or treated at UNC between 2010 and 2015. Of those, 41 (62%) were on the list of cases reported through the UNC Cancer Registry to the NCCCR. A chart review of the excluded cases was performed and the following barriers to reporting of uveal melanoma were identified: lack of diagnostic imaging results, lack of histopathologic confirmation, inconsistent language used to communicate diagnosis, and lack of implementation of the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries’ National Interstate Data Exchange Agreement. CONCLUSION: The diagnosis and treatment of uveal melanoma is unique when compared to other types of cancers. Diagnosis is based on clinical features and characteristic findings on ophthalmic imaging and ultrasound. There is often no pathology report or radiologic imaging which makes it difficult for hospital registrars to recognize and confirm cases of uveal melanoma. This creates significant barriers to reporting cases to state and national cancer registries. The incomplete data makes it difficult to detect changes in the incidence of uveal melanoma in North Carolina. The development of a national uveal melanoma registry should be seriously considered.
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spelling pubmed-93829122022-08-18 The reporting of uveal melanoma cases to the cancer registry in North Carolina Gordon, Kathleen G. Carvajal, Richard D. Graham, Sharnee’ L. Houghton, Odette M. Front Oncol Oncology OBJECTIVE: To ascertain the completeness of reporting of uveal melanoma cases in North Carolina to the state’s cancer registry. METHODS: This was a retrospective chart review performed at a single institution analyzing the completeness of information reported to the North Carolina Cancer Registry between 2010 and 2015. A list of all patients with uveal melanoma diagnosed, treated and/or followed at UNC-Chapel Hill between 2010-2015 was compared to the list of patients with uveal melanoma reported to the North Carolina Central Cancer registry during the same time frame. RESULTS: Based on ICD 9 and 10 codes, there were 66 patients with ciliary body or choroidal melanomas diagnosed, followed and/or treated at UNC between 2010 and 2015. Of those, 41 (62%) were on the list of cases reported through the UNC Cancer Registry to the NCCCR. A chart review of the excluded cases was performed and the following barriers to reporting of uveal melanoma were identified: lack of diagnostic imaging results, lack of histopathologic confirmation, inconsistent language used to communicate diagnosis, and lack of implementation of the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries’ National Interstate Data Exchange Agreement. CONCLUSION: The diagnosis and treatment of uveal melanoma is unique when compared to other types of cancers. Diagnosis is based on clinical features and characteristic findings on ophthalmic imaging and ultrasound. There is often no pathology report or radiologic imaging which makes it difficult for hospital registrars to recognize and confirm cases of uveal melanoma. This creates significant barriers to reporting cases to state and national cancer registries. The incomplete data makes it difficult to detect changes in the incidence of uveal melanoma in North Carolina. The development of a national uveal melanoma registry should be seriously considered. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-08-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9382912/ /pubmed/35992848 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2022.877599 Text en Copyright © 2022 Gordon, Carvajal, Graham and Houghton https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Gordon, Kathleen G.
Carvajal, Richard D.
Graham, Sharnee’ L.
Houghton, Odette M.
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title The reporting of uveal melanoma cases to the cancer registry in North Carolina
title_full The reporting of uveal melanoma cases to the cancer registry in North Carolina
title_fullStr The reporting of uveal melanoma cases to the cancer registry in North Carolina
title_full_unstemmed The reporting of uveal melanoma cases to the cancer registry in North Carolina
title_short The reporting of uveal melanoma cases to the cancer registry in North Carolina
title_sort reporting of uveal melanoma cases to the cancer registry in north carolina
topic Oncology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9382912/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35992848
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2022.877599
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