January 8, 2026 / Last updated : January 8, 2026 Michele Webb cancer surveillance

Cancer Registries: First Responders of Oncology Data

In the United States,  hospital-based cancer registries serve as the first point of truth in cancer surveillance. Every confirmed diagnosis, staging element, treatment decision, and disease milestone begins here, with an Oncology Data Specialist and a data system built to capture the full arc of a patient’s cancer journey. The Oncology Data Specialist: Turning Raw […]

November 20, 2025 / Last updated : January 8, 2026 Michele Webb Real-Time Data Collection

Closing the Real-Time Data Gap in Cancer Care

The cancer community agrees on one goal: data should drive better outcomes. Yet a critical gap remains between how real-time is understood by clinical and administrative leaders and how the term is often interpreted in cancer registry operations. For hospital leadership and clinicians, real-time means having access to curated data as events occur, so their […]

November 18, 2025 / Last updated : January 8, 2026 Michele Webb Real-Time Data Collection

What is Real-Time in Cancer Care?

How do you define real-time data in cancer care? Across oncology, “real-time” data is increasingly defined not by a specific number of minutes or hours, but by its ability to meaningfully inform current clinical or quality decisions. NAACCR’s Real-Time Reporting Taskforce distinguished true real-time processing as “…data captured and available essentially as events occur…” from […]