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City of Hope

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10,000+ employees

🏥 Healthcare

🧬 Biotechnology

🔬 Science

💰 $5.4M Grant - City of Hope on 2024-05

Healthcare • Biotechnology • Science

City of Hope is a nonprofit, NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center and research hospital near Los Angeles that provides patient care, conducts translational biomedical research, and offers education and clinical trials across a national network. It focuses on cancer, diabetes, and other life‑threatening diseases, combining clinical services, laboratory science, training and community outreach to develop new treatments and support patients and families.

📋 Description

• Collect data identifying patients with malignant diagnoses and document disease type, extent, treatment, and survival • Identify new malignant and reportable benign cases from pathology, cytology, radiation oncology, nuclear medicine, and new patient registration reports • Abstract core information from patients’ medical records • Enter data according to State of California mandatory reporting and ACoS reporting guidelines • Provide follow-up information to outside cancer registries and physicians • Assist clinicians, epidemiologists, and researchers with cancer-related data retrieval and research projects • Assist the supervisor in identifying problems for Cancer Committee or Quality Assurance Committee review • Maintain liaison with medical communities, allied health professionals, health organizations, professional societies, and cancer registries • Provide prolonged clinical patient follow-up to support quality care and determine patient outcomes • Ensure the quality of statistical data

🎯 Requirements

• High School or equivalent • Post High School Vocational/Specialized Training • 2 years in an allied health profession with at least 1 year as a Cancer Registrar, or completion of the Cancer Information Management program or equivalent • Current certification by the National Cancer Registrars Association, or procurement of CTR certification by passing the CTR exam within one year of employment • Working knowledge of anatomy and physiology • Working knowledge of basic statistics • Working knowledge of medical records operations • If completing the Cancer Information Management program or equivalent, must pass the CTR exam within one year of employment

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive Benefits (linked in the posting)