Dr. Frederick Greene, our Consulting Medical Officer has leveraged his extensive surgical experience and his ongoing editorial experiences with the AJCC and CoC to drive several initiatives for CRStar - including the industry's first podcast focused on Cancer Registry.
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, I wrote an editorial for the Annals of Surgical Oncology to challenge our clinicians and registry communities to create codes and other applications that would capture data relating to coronavirus infection in our cancer patients. I was delighted that our cancer registrars throughout the United States answered the challenge using […]
On December 23, 1971, 50 years ago this month, President Richard Nixon signed into law the National Cancer Act, heralding our National Cancer Program and the “War on Cancer.” As a result of this legislation, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) was strengthened, NCI-designated cancer centers were created, the cancer clinical trials network was expanded and […]
A few weeks ago, the American College of Surgeons officially launched the centennial anniversary celebration of the Commission on Cancer. In 1921, the ACS Board of Regents authorized the formation of the Registry of Bone Sarcoma under the direction of Ernest Amory Codman of Boston, MA. One year later, the cancer initiative of the ACS […]
In 1775, Percivall Pott, a surgeon working in London, reported on an unusual cancer involving the skin of the scrotum in chimney sweeps. This was perhaps the first account of a true occupation-related cancer. In 2021, the 20th anniversary of 9/11, a number of articles have appeared supporting the occurrence of several types of cancers […]
In the latest “Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer” which appeared as a pre-print report in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, it was reported that in the years 2014-2018 cancer death rates declined for women, men, children and adolescents and young adults (AYAs)! This decline in death rates was […]
