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Head of NCT Cancer Registry  

Dr. Antje Brockschmidt

Deputy: 
Sophia Schäfer, B.Sc.

NCT Cancer Registry

Data acquisition of all tumor patients at NCT Heidelberg.

Tasks and objectives

A clinical cancer registry is an essential part of a tumor center. All medical data of the oncological patients are recorded and documented in an evaluable manner. At the NCT Cancer Registry, this also includes patients who seek a second opinion as well as patients who are re-treated at the NCT Heidelberg at an advanced stage of their disease. An estimated 13,000-14,000 new cancer patients are enrolled annually.

The specially trained staff at the NCT Cancer Registry use the Onkostar tumor documentation system from IT-Choice Software GmbH to record the huge amounts of data. The manuals for tumor documentation, diagnosis, course of therapy, stage, etc. developed at the NCT Heidelberg are used to systematically document everything in a uniform and quality-compliant manner.

The primary goal of this data collection is not only quality control in cancer treatment, but also to support research projects.

NCT cancer registry focus:

  1. Compliance with the statutory reporting obligation to the Baden-Württemberg State Cancer Registry (C diagnoses, certain D diagnoses).
  2. Data collection for research projects at regular intervals:
    • NCT physicians and scientists can either retrieve their data from the registry and evaluate it themselves or have evaluations carried out via the NCT Cancer Registry.
  3. The clinical cancer registry provides the basis for reports to funding agencies and certifying institutions (e.g., annual reports, German Cancer Aid).
  4. Support for the certification of oncology centers at the NCT Heidelberg (specific, detailed documentation and key figure collection) and for quality assurance in the treatment of oncological diseases.
  5. Conducting internal research projects on methodology and research in tumor documentation.
  6. The NCT Cancer Registry supports the training of medical tumor documentarians.

Team

  • Dr. Antje Brockschmidt

  • Sandra Grosch

  • Dr. Beate Köper
  • Sophia Schäfer
  • Sonja Karam

  • Katrin Tröltzsch
  • Martin Wolf

  • B. A.
  • Daniela Beister
  • Birgit Dold
  • Raissa Gerlinski
  • Jeanett Glomm
  • Fiona Feder
  • Natalie Hock
  • Claudia Hornig
  • Melanie Kilgus
  • Lydia Kluge
  • Carina Halep
  • Christiane Lautenschläger
  • Claudia Lohm
  • Dr. Christine Philipps
  • Christoph Przewalla
  • Jasmine Romanov
  • Andrea Stoltmann (SarcBOP)
  • Annemarie Terhalle
  • Laura Zimmer

Handbooks for general and organ-specific tumor documentation

In order to be able to compare and evaluate the data from the NCT cancer registry, they are encrypted according to national and international regulations. This set of rules has been compiled in handbooks. These give an insight into the way the data are stored. The handbooks are available for download below.

They contain recommendations for encryption, rules for documentation, tumor classifications for specific organs, anatomically confined organ areas and organ systems. Furthermore: code ICD-O-3 histology according to WHO classification, ICD-O-3-localization, ICD-10-diagnosis, regional lymph nodes, multiple tumors, tumor-specific staging, classification etc. Users are requested to adhere to the citation rules given in the handbooks.