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APPENDIX C Glossary, Abbreviations, and Acronyms
Pages 264-270

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... Biopsy: Refers to a procedure that involves obtaining a tissue specimen for microscopic analysis to establish a precise diagnosis. Breast-conserving surgery: Surgery to remove a breast cancer and a small amount of tissue around the cancer, but without removing the entire breast or surrounding tissues.
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From page 265...
... . Clinical practice guidelines: Systematically defined statements to assist prac titioner and patient decisions about appropriate health care for specific clinical circumstances.
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From page 266...
... Hospice: A discrete site of care in the form of an inpatient hospital or nursing home unit or a free-standing facility; an organization or pro gram that provides, arranges, and advises on a wide range of medical and supportive services for dying patients and their families and friends; an approach to care for dying patients based on clinical, social, and metaphysical or spiritual principles. Incidence: The number of new cases of a disease that occur in the popula tion per unit of time.
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From page 267...
... Needle biopsy: Procedure in which a hollow needle is used to remove small cylinders of tissue from a suspected cancer. Neoadjuvant therapy: Use of anticancer drugs before initial surgery or radiation treatment Oversampling: A sampling procedure designed to give a demographic or geographic population a larger proportion of representation in the sample than the population's proportion of representation in the over all population.
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... Response bias: Bias created in survey data when individuals do not respond truthfully (e.g., underestimate risky lifestyle behaviors such as smoking, or overestimate healthy behaviors such as exercise)
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... APPENDIX C 269 ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS ACoS American College of Surgeons ACR American College of Radiology ACS American Cancer Society AHRQ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality AJCC American Joint Committee on Cancer APS American Pain Society ASCO American Society of Clinical Oncology BCS Breast-conserving surgery BCSC Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium BI-RADS Breast Imaging and Reporting Data System BMI body mass index BRFSS Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System CAHPS Consumer Assessment of Health Plans CAP College of American Pathologists CaPSURE Cancer of the Prostate Strategic Urologic Research Endeavor CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CMS Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services CoC Commission on Cancer DCIS ductal carcinoma in situ DHHS Department of Health and Human Services EBRT external beam radiation therapy ER estrogen receptor FACT Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy FOBT fecal occult blood test GA-CORE Georgia Center for Oncology Research and Education GCC Georgia Cancer Coalition GCCR Georgia Comprehensive Cancer Registry Gy gray (unit of absorbed radiation) HEDIS Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set HP 2010 Healthy People 2010 ICSI Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement IOM Institute of Medicine
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... 270 ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF CANCER CARE JCAHO Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations NAACCR North American Association of Central Cancer Registries NAS National Academy of Sciences NCCN National Comprehensive Cancer Network NCI National Cancer Institute NCPB National Cancer Policy Board NCQA National Committee for Quality Assurance NHQR National Healthcare Quality Report NIH National Institutes of Health NQF National Quality Forum NVSS National Vital Statistics System OMB Office of Management and Budget ONS Oncology Nursing Society PR progesterone receptor PSA prostate-specific antigen test SEER Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results TNM Tumor, Node, Metastasis USPSTF U.S. Preventive Services Task Force WHO World Health Organization YRBSS Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System
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Key Terms

  • radiation therapy
  • blood test
  • dying patients
  • external beam
  • hormone therapy

  • bias created
  • lymph nodes
  • ductal carcinoma
  • beam radiation
  • death rates

  • healthy behaviors
  • lighted tube
  • natural hormones
  • definitive confirmation
  • defined statements

  • glandular tissue
  • risky lifestyle
  • colon using
  • surrounding tissues
  • discrete site

  • breast ducts
  • respond truthfully
  • standard nomenclature
  • growing cancers
  • determine disease

  • anticancer drugs
  • patient decisions
  • synthetic hormones
  • prac titioner
  • disease frequency


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