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The Acronyms Used section is a collection of standard acronyms used in the Standards Database and within the cancer registration community, and the organization or term that they refer to.
Acronym | Word/Term(s) |
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AACCR | American Association of Central Cancer Registries |
ACoS | American College of Surgeons |
ACS | American Cancer Society |
AJCC | American Joint Committee on Cancer |
CCCR | Canadian Council of Cancer Registries |
CDC | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
CLIA | Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act |
CoC | Commission on Cancer (of ACoS) |
FIPS | Federal Information Processing Standards |
FORDS | Facility Oncology Registry Data Standards (manual of ACoS) |
FTRO | Fundamental Tumor Registry Operations Program (of ACoS) |
GenEDITS | Generic EDITS Drive Program |
GIS | Geographic Information System |
HCFA | Health Care Finance Administration |
HIM | Health Information Management |
IACR | International Association of Cancer Registrars |
IARC | International Agency for Research on Cancer |
ICD | International Classification of Diseases |
ICD-O | International Classification of Diseases for Oncology |
ICD-O-1 | International Classification of Diseases for Oncology, First Edition |
ICD-O-2 | International Classification of Diseases for Oncology, Second Edition |
ICD-O-3 | International Classification of Diseases for Oncology, Third Edition |
NAACCR | North American Association of Central Cancer Registries |
NAPIIA | NAACCR Asian/Pacific Islander Identification Algorithm |
NCCCS | National Coordinating Council for Cancer Surveillance |
NCDB | National Cancer Data Base |
NCI | National Cancer Institute |
NCRA | National Cancer Registrars Association |
NHIA | NAACCR Hispanic Identification Algorithm |
NPCR | National Program of Cancer Registries |
NPI | National Provider Identifier |
ROADS | Registry Operations and Data Standards (manual of ACoS) |
SEER | Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program of NCI |
STORE | Standards for Oncology Registry Entry |
UDSWG | Uniform Data Standards Work Group of NAACCR |
UICC | Union Internationale Contre le Cancer (in English, International Union Against Cancer) |
USPS | United States Postal Service |
WHO | World Health Organization |