SAN DIEGO, Calif., June 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- The North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR; http://www.naaccr.org) will be holding its 22nd annual conference June 13-18, 2009 at the Westin San Diego. The conference theme, "Charting the Course to a New World in Cancer Surveillance," highlights the look of this "new world" which includes public health genomics, biomedical informatics development, and an expanded data coding system. The focus of this year's conference is planning for the future challenges of cancer registration and surveillance.
Cancer registries collect important information on newly diagnosed cancer cases, including information on risk and treatment, to support cancer research studies and track the trends in cancer statistics. NAACCR represents all regional, state, and provincial cancer registries across North America and works closely with its sponsoring organizations: American Cancer Society, American College of Surgeons, American Joint Committee on Cancer, Canadian Association of Provincial Cancer Agencies, Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, National Cancer Institute, National Cancer Registrars Association, Public Health Agency of Canada, and SNOMED Terminology Solutions (College of American Pathologists). Its goal is to set standards and build consensus for the collection of uniform cancer data across the continent. The NAACCR organization includes cancer registrars, epidemiologists, statisticians, IT (Information Technology) specialists, medical demographers, physicians, other allied health personnel, and participating sponsoring organizations who combine their expertise to better understand the public health challenges of cancer.
Dr. Ralph Coates of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention is this year's keynote speaker addressing "Public Health Genomics." The other plenary presentations include "Enhancing the Registry Data," "California Teachers' Study," and "Cancer in Diverse Populations: African American, American Indian, Latino and Asian Populations." There is also a plenary session on Cancer Informatics.
The breakout sessions include topics on biomedical informatics, using innovative methods, achieving efficiencies in the registry's processes, collaborative staging, melanoma, data linkage, data release, quality control, cancer epidemiology, survival, training and education, electronic pathology reporting, descriptive epidemiology and trends, novel uses of registry data, cervical cancer surveillance, mortality data, spatial epidemiology, cancer disparities and cancer surveillance in the future.
In addition to the pre and post conference courses usually offered, there are two new courses this year, "Process Management," and "Change Management."
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CONTACT: Betsy Kohler, MPH, CTR, Executive Director, 217-698-0800 x. 2
MEDIA PAGE: http://www.naaccr.org/media/
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