Office of Cancer Registry

Takashi Kojima, Yumi Ishii, Yayoi Ohtsuka, Maiko Miura, Shizue Kawashima, Tokiko Inagaki

Introduction

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

Routine activities

Diagnostic cases registered in 2015 in the hospital cancer registry (the first visit of cancer patients diagnosed from January to December in our hospital) were 6,131 (of which, an initial treatment conducted in our hospital: 4,109 cases; in our hospital diagnosis only: 150 cases; after the start of treatment at another hospital: 1,028 cases; and diagnosis and treatment at another hospital (including a second opinion): 844 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).

Table 1. The number of cancer registries of the NCCH-East

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.