Code of Massachusetts Regulations
105 CMR - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Title 105 CMR 301.000 - Cancer Registry
Section 301.005 - Definitions

As used in 105 CMR 301.000, the following words have the following meanings:

Benign Brain-related Tumors. A tumor (neoplasm) that grows in place with little or no potential to spread (invade) to other tissue. Tumors included in this definition occur in the following body sites, meninges, brain, spinal cord, cranial nerves, and other nerves of the central nervous system, pituitary gland, pineal gland, and craniopharyngeal duct as listed in the most recently amended International Classification of Diseases for Oncology (ICD-O) or Classification of Tumours series, published by the World Health Organization.

Cancer Registry. The Cancer Registry established by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health pursuant to M.G.L. c.111, § 111B.

Department. The Department of Public Health.

Health Care Facility. Any facility or institution, whether public or private, proprietary or not for profit including, but not limited to, hospitals, including general hospitals, free-standing radiation therapy and outpatient oncology centers, nursing homes, hospices, all pathology and cytology laboratories, including hospital laboratories, health maintenance organizations and other outpatient facilities such as free-standing surgical centers, which diagnose, evaluate or provide cancer treatment to cancer patients.

Health Care Provider. Any physician, nurse practitioner, physician assistant, dentist, podiatrist, chiropractor, or osteopath who is licensed to practice in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and who diagnoses a case of malignant disease or benign brain-related tumor, evaluates a previously diagnosed case of malignant disease or benign brain-related tumor, or provides cancer treatment to a cancer patient.

Malignant Disease. Any malignant (in situ or invasive) disease which is listed in the most recently amended International Classification of Diseases for Oncology (ICD-O) or Classification of Tumours series, published by the World Health Organization, excluding in-situ carcinomas of the uterine cervix and basal, epithelial, papillary and squamous cell carcinomas of the skin, but including carcinomas of the vermilion border of the lip, vulva, labia, penis, scrotum and anus.

Practitioner means any physician, medical examiner, dentist, podiatrist, chiropractor, or osteopath practicing in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.