NATIONAL CANCER REGISTRY - EVALUATION OF FUNCTIONAL AND STRUCTURAL REQUIREMENTS

Objectives. Evaluation of the opinion of specialist doctors regarding the functional and structural requirements of the national cancer registry. Material and methods. We applied a descriptive and integral study (198 research participants), with a simple research unit, doctors from the Oncological Institute, conducted in the time interval 2016-2020. Results. It was identified as "analysis" as the basic function 62.3%, followed by the "collection" function – 29.1% and the "data storage" function recorded by – 8.6% of doctors. Functionally, specialist doctors emphasize data quality 82 cases – 41.4% and their veracity – 71 cases – 35.9%. There were defined as "reportable tumors" malignant neoplasms (C00-C96) by 185 of 198 doctors – 93.4%, cancers "in situ" topographic code (D00-D09), by 173 of 198 doctors – 87.4%, tumors with unpredictable evolution or unknown behavior (D37-D48), by 131 of 198 doctors – 66.2% and benign tumors of the brain and other parts of the central nervous system (topographic code D32-D33*) morphological behavioral code "/0" (*except for hemangiomas and cystic lesions) 102 of 198 doctors – 51.5%. Conclusions. Evaluating the opinion of the direct beneficiaries of the national cancer registry is the key to success. The opinion of doctors working in medical oncology, hematology and radiation oncology, the surgical profile, but also the specialists from the cytology laboratory and the morphopathology department is the basis of a functional and internationally competitive national cancer registry.