Arkansas Administrative Code › Agency 007 - ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Division 40 - Center for Public Health Practice › Rule 007.40.21-001 - Rules Pertaining to the Arkansas Cancer Registry

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 6, June, 2024
SECTION I.
AUTHORITY
The following Rules Pertaining to the Arkansas Cancer Registry
				are duly adopted and promulgated by the Arkansas State Board of Health and
				implemented by the Arkansas Department of Health ("Department"), pursuant to
				the authority expressly conferred by the laws of the State of Arkansas,
				specifically Ark. Code Ann. §§
									20-15-201
				- 205.
SECTION II.
PURPOSE
The purpose of these rules is to clarify the cancer-reporting
				responsibilities of medical care professionals, hospitals, laboratories and
				institutions, pursuant to Arkansas law. In addition, it contains intervention
				for noncompliance, reinforces the confidentiality requirements, authorizes the
				exchange of cancer incidence data with other states and for the data to be made
				available to the public. In carrying out this mandate, the Department's
				Arkansas Central Cancer Registry ("ACCR") collaborates with the National Cancer
				Institute, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, medical research
				institutions, national and international cancer surveillance programs
				designated by the ACCR, the Arkansas Cancer Coalition, and public health
				agencies. The importance of cancer registration was reinforced by the passage
				of federal legislation in 1992 (
				Public
				Law 102-515 ) establishing the National Program of
				Cancer Registries, in which Arkansas participates.
SECTION III.
DEFINITIONS
A. "Arkansas Cancer Coalition (ACC)" means
			 the statewide comprehensive cancer control partnership, which is a network of
			 members and organizations that strive to provide an overview of cancer control
			 in Arkansas, strengthen and sustain the cancer control partnership and support
			 network, and direct goals and strategies in the Arkansas Cancer Plan.
B. "Benign neoplasms" means a benign tumor
			 that does not grow in an unlimited, aggressive manner and does not invade
			 surrounding tissues and does not metastasize.
C. "Borderline tumor" means a neoplasm with
			 many histologic criteria of malignancy, but future behavior is
			 uncertain.
D. "Cancer" means
			 cellular abnormalities with widely variable courses, some grow rapidly, others
			 grow slowly, others stop growing completely and some regress.
E. "Casefinding" means a systematic process
			 of locating cases eligible for inclusion in the cancer registry to include but
			 not limited to pathology reports and disease indices.
F. "Casefinding Audit" means a systematic
			 process of reviewing facility based documents and information to ensure that
			 all eligible/reportable cancer cases were identified, abstracted and reported
			 by facilities to the ACCR.
G. "In
			 Situ (in place) cancer" means a cancer that involves only the place in which it
			 began and that has not spread, or invaded and may regress.
H. "Invasive cancer" means a tumor that grows
			 in an uncontrolled manner and invades surrounding tissues and is capable of
			 metastasizing.
I. "New Primary"
			 means a very basic definition is a first time diagnosed cancer
J. "Qualified researcher" means a researcher
			 from a recognized institution, including without limitation an academic, state
			 or federal government, or nonprofit nongovernmental institution, and who is
			 adequately trained about conditions where names and identities of individuals
			 are appropriately protected while conducting research for the purposes of
			 cancer prevention, control, and treatment.
A. "Re-Abstracting (Quality Assurance) Audit"
			 means a systematic process of reviewing specific data items and codes, to help
			 ensure quality and accurate coding is being submitted by facilities to the
			 ACCR.
B. "Registry" means the
			 system for the reporting, collection, and analysis of cancer cases by the
			 Arkansas Department of Health.
C.
			 "Reporting" means the notification furnished to the Department of cases of in
			 situ or invasive neoplasms of the human body, not including squamous cell and
			 basal cell carcinoma of the skin.