Cancer Registrars collect and analyze data to tell a story about the latest trends in their facility, region, state or nationally. Understanding how the statistics are derived and calculated, especially if you are going to compare your hospital with another program, state or national benchmark is very important.
SEER (Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results) has made available a series of online videos called Did You Know? The video’s highlight key topics and trends and are helpful in understanding cancer-related statistics.
Here is one of these videos, titled “Cancer Statistics.”
