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 […]
November 18, 2025 / Last updated : January 8, 2026 Michele Webb cancer registry automation

Cancer Registries Are at a Fork in the Road

Cancer registries face a turning point. Case-finding, abstraction, and follow-up once depended entirely on manual effort, but data demands have grown exponentially in the last decade. Hospitals now require near real-time information to support quality reporting, value-based care, personalized medicine, and population health. Artificial intelligence (AI) offers a solution, but adoption requires engagement and clarity […]
October 21, 2025 / Last updated : January 11, 2026 Michele Webb case finding automation

Close the Gap: Hematology

Clinical data tells the story pathology cannot. Roughly 8–12% of hematologic malignancies are clinically diagnosed rather than pathologically confirmed (Deppen et al., 2020; CDC USCS, 2025). Without deliberate data curation, they may never be reviewed or abstracted by the cancer registry. When medical disease indices (MDI) are pre-filtered and do not include all ICD-10 codes, […]
October 21, 2025 / Last updated : November 18, 2025 Michele Webb Oncology

Close the Gap: Bladder Cancer

A symptom may be the first red flag.Bladder cancers often hide in plain sight. Bladder cancer cases surface from the inpatient and outpatient settings, each telling a story that pathology alone cannot capture. When casefinding workflows depend only on positive pathology, clinically diagnosed or recurrent cases are easily overlooked. Each omission distorts the cancer registry’s accuracy […]