NCT Cancer Registry

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 employees of the NCT cancer registry use the tumor documentation system Onkostar from IT Choice, Karlsruhe, to record the huge amounts of data. The manuals for tumor documentation, diagnosis, course of therapy, stage, etc., developed at the NCT Heidelberg are systematically documented in a standardized and quality-compliant manner.

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

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.