Job Description
Cancer Registrar – OC (REMOTE)
Join the transformative team atCity of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.
Collects necessary data to ensure patients with a diagnosis of malignancy are identified and information pertaining to the type, extent of disease, treatment and survival is documented. Identifies and provides the necessary data for ongoing research investigations, and ensures the quality of statistical data. Provides clinical patient follow-up over a prolonged period to ensure quality patient care and ascertain patient outcome.
As a successful candidate, you will:
- Reviews reports from Pathology, Cytology, Radiation Oncology and Nuclear Medicine patient treatment lists and New Patient Registration. Identifies each new case with a malignant disease and benign cases reportable by agreement.
- Abstracts information on each newly identified case obtaining core information from the patient's medical record.
- Enters data in compliance with the State of California mandatory reporting guidelines and ACoS reporting guidelines when appropriate.
- Provides follow-up information for requests from outside Cancer Registries and physicians.
- Assists in data retrieval to be used by clinicians, epidemiologists and other researchers on cancer related studies and research projects.
- Assists supervisor in identifying problems to be brought to Cancer Committee or to the Quality Assurance Committee.
- Maintains liaison with the medical community and allied health professions, local, state and national health organizations, professional societies and other Cancer Registries.
Your qualifications should include:
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Salary / Pay Rate Information:
Pay Rate: $33.47 - $46.86 / hour
The estimated pay scale represents the typical [salary/hourly] range City of Hope reasonably expects to pay for this position, with offers determined based on several factors which may include, but not be limited to, the candidate’s experience, expertise, skills, education, job scope, training, internal equity, geography/market, etc. This pay scale is subject to change from time to time.
City of Hope is a community of people characterized by our diversity of thought, background and approach, but tied together by our commitment to care for and cure those with cancer and other life-threatening diseases. The innovation that our diversity produces in the areas of research, treatment, philanthropy and education has made us national leaders in this fight. Our unique and diverse workforce provides us the ability to understand our patients' needs, deliver compassionate care and continue the quest for a cure for life-threatening diseases. At City of Hope, diversity and inclusion is a core value at the heart of our mission. We strive to create an inclusive workplace environment that engages all of our employees and provides them with opportunities to develop and grow, both personally and professionally. Each day brings an opportunity to strengthen our work, leverage our different perspectives and improve our patients’ experiences by learning from others. Diversity and inclusion is about much more than policies and campaigns. It is an integral part of who we are as an institution, how we operate and how we see our future.