Table A

Areas of Responsibility to Be Included in Position Description

  • Cancer program management
  • Data management
  • Data retention and retrieval
  • Personnel administration
  • Reporting to a central cancer registry
  • Registry statistics
  • Legal and ethical perspectives
  • Quality assurance
  • Data privacy, security, and confidentiality
  • Diagnosis; stage; and treatment coding, classifying, and indexing
  • Educational or technical qualifications including knowledge of the disease process, diagnostic methods and procedures, composition of the health record, data interpretation, and statistical and analytical skills
  • Work schedules
  • Interactions with medical and administrative staff
  • Intradepartmental and interdepartmental relationships
  • Required memberships, if any
  • Physical requirement, if applicable