New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 8 - HEALTH
Chapter 57A - CANCER REGISTRY
Subchapter 1 - CANCER REGISTRY
Section 8:57A-1.2 - Incorporated and referenced documents

Universal Citation: NJ Admin Code 8:57A-1.2

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 6, March 18, 2024

(a) The Department incorporates by reference, as amended and supplemented, the following documents in this subchapter:

1. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Incorporated. "The e-path Reporting Site Information Checklist," which is based on the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance Epidemiology End Results (SEER) Program Case Finding List, effective January 2010, and will be used by pathology laboratories to send site information in order to implement electronic cancer case-finding and pathology data gathering for the NJSCR, and is available through request to the NJSCR, and for which the contact information is Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Incorporated, 2 Berkeley Street, Suite 403, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5A 2W3;

2. The National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, Surveillance Research Program, Cancer Statistics Branch/SEER Program. "The SEER Program Coding and Staging Manual 2016, updated January 4, 2017," which is used for abstracting and coding cancer data, and is available online at: http://seer.cancer.gov, and for which the contact information is NCI, 9609 Medical Center Drive, MSC 97608, Bethesda, MD 20892-9760, Telephone: 1-800-4-CANCER (1-800-422-6237) in English and Spanish languages;

3. The North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR), Inc. "The NAACCR Data Standards for Cancer Registries -- Data Standards and Data Dictionary (Volume II-Version 16)," which is used by health care facilities, physicians, dentists, and other health care providers to electronically submit data to the NJSCR, and is available online at: http://www.naaccr.org/StandardsandRegistryOperations/VolumeII.aspx, and for which the contact information is NAACCR, 2050 W. Iles, Suite A, Springfield, IL 62704-4194, Telephone: (217) 698-0800;

4. The North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR), Inc. "The NAACCR Standards for Cancer Registries Volume V: Pathology Laboratory Electronic Reporting, Version 4.0 (effective April 1, 2011), including Chapter 3: "Implementation guidelines with rules for formatting messages carrying synoptic reports," which sets forth the Health Level 7 (HL-7) Version 2.5.1 standard protocol that clinical laboratories may use to make reports to the Department electronically and is available online at: http://www.naaccr.org/StandardsandRegistryOperations/VolumeV.aspx, and for which the contact information is NAACCR, 2050 W. Iles, Suite A, Springfield, IL 62704-4194, Telephone: (217) 698-0800; and

5. World Health Organization. "International classification of diseases for oncology (ICD-O)--3rd edition, 1st revision, 2013," which is used to classify oncologic conditions for inclusion in cancer registry data, and which is available online at http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/96612/1/9789241548496_eng.pdf.

(b) The Department references the following documents, as amended and supplemented, as guidance in this subchapter:

1. New Jersey State Cancer Registry (NJSCR), Cancer Epidemiology Services, New Jersey Department of Health. "The NJSCR 2017 Program Manual: Instructions For Health Care Facilities," which provides guidance to health care facilities on the electronic transmission of data to the Department and information from Federal programs that establish standards for cancer registries and which is available online at: http://www.nj.gov/health/ces/reporting-entities/registrars/index.shtml; and

2. New Jersey State Cancer Registry (NJSCR), Cancer Epidemiology Services, New Jersey Department of Health. "The NJSCR Abstract Instruction Manual For Physicians, Ambulatory Care Centers and Radiation Treatment Facilities 2017," which provides guidance to physicians, ambulatory care centers (ACCs), and radiation treatment facilities (RTFs) on the electronic transmission of data to the Department and which is available online at: http://www.nj.gov/health/ces/reporting-entites/non-hospital/.

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