California Code of Regulations › Title 17 - Public Health › Division 1 - State Department of Health Services › Chapter 4 - Preventive Medical Service › Subchapter 1 - Reportable Diseases and Conditions › Article 3 - Specific Diseases and Conditions › Section 2593 - Neoplasm, Cancer

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a)
					 Definitions.
(1) Department means Department of
					 Health Services.
(2) Director means the
					 Director of the Department of Health Services.
(3) Regional cancer registry means the
					 organization authorized to receive and collect cancer data for a designated area of
					 the state and which maintains the system by which the collected information is
					 reported to the Department.
(4) Cancer
					 means all malignant neoplasms, including carcinoa in situ, which are specified in
					 Volume I of the 1986 California Cancer Reporting System Standards and as set forth
					 in the International Classification of Diseases for Oncology Field Trial Edition
					 1986.
(5) Case means a cancer diagnosis
					 for an individual who is either a resident of the designated area of the regional
					 cancer registry, regardless of where the individual was treated or diagnosed, or
					 seen at a cancer reporting facility, other facility or by a physician within the
					 designated area of the regional cancer registry, regardless of where the individual
					 resides.
(6) Active follow-up program
					 means a system for determining the vital status of each reported case no later than
					 twelve months after the date of the last reported contact. This date is defined in
					 Volume I of the 1986 California Cancer Reporting System Standards.
(7) Cancer reporting facility means a hospital or
					 other facility which treats or diagnoses cancer and is also one of the following:
(A) A facility currently licensed as a health
					 facility under the provisions of Chapter 2, commencing with Section
					 1250, of Division 2 of the Health and
					 Safety Code;
(B) A surgical clinic
					 licensed under Chapter 1, Section
					 1204, of Division 2 of the Health and
					 Safety Code;
(C) A facility covered by
					 the provisions of Section
					 1206, except for subsection (f), of the
					 Health and Safety Code which, while not licensed as a clinic, is operated for the
					 predominant purpose of diagnosing or treating cancer or where a minimum of 100 or
					 more cancer cases are diagnosed or treated in a year.
(8) Quality Control System means operational
					 procedures by which the accuracy, completeness and timeliness of the information
					 reported to the Department can be determined and verified. These criteria are
					 defined in Volume I of the 1986 California Cancer Reporting System
					 Standards.
(9) Certified Tumor Registrar
					 (CTR) means the designation given to individuals who pass the certification
					 examination given by the National Tumor Registrars Association (NTRA).
(10) Population-based means that all cases are
					 drawn from a defined population of known size and characteristics, usually one
					 within a defined geographic area.
(11)
					 Cancer incidence data means information on new cases of cancer including the
					 required data listed in the 1986 California Cancer Reporting System Standards and
					 counts of these cases by their characteristics such as age, sex and ethnicity, and
					 by anatomic site and morphology.
(12)
					 Instance of cancer means case of cancer as defined in subsection (a)(5)
					 above.
(13) Modeled after the Cancer
					 Surveillance Program of Orange County means a population-based registry that
					 collects treatment data, has a phased implementation, collects follow-up data, has a
					 community advisory component and receives data in a machine-readable format from
					 cancer reporting facilities as defined in subsection (a)(7)
					 above.