Acronyms: All
- Federal Government
- National Organizations
- Worldwide Organizations
- Publications & On-Line Databases
- The Automated Cause Coding Systems
- Study Groups
| Acronym | Organization |
|---|---|
| NCI | National Cancer Institute: One of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, it was established as a center for cancer research. |
| SEER | Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results: Funded by NCI, SEER collects incidence and follow-up data in nine areas in the United States for the purpose of identifying and monitoring trends in cancer incidence and survival. |
| CDC | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services whose mission is to promote health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability. |
| NPCR | National Program of Cancer Registries: Funded by CDC the NPCR is a population-based system of cancer registries established in 1992 by the Cancer Registries Amendment Act (Public Law 102-515). The program supports cancer registration in 45 states, 3 territories, and the District of Columbia. |
| Acronym | Organization |
|---|---|
| AACR | American Association of Cancer Research: AACR is the oldest and largest scientific organization in the world focused on every aspect of high-quality, innovative cancer research. The programs and services of AACR foster the exchange of knowledge and new ideas among scientists dedicated to cancer research, provide training opportunities for the next generation of cancer researchers, and increase public understanding of cancer. |
| ACCC | Association of Community Cancer Centers: An organization of comprehensive hospitals and cancer centers with an interest in community activities. Members are concerned about the how and why of cancer program development, the impact of prospective payment, capitation, and competition, and the establishment and maintenance of high standards of quality patient care. |
| ACOA | American College of Oncology Administrators: A professional healthcare organization for oncology administrators, managers, and consultants of cancer programs and services. It is a chapter of the American Academy of Medical Administrators (AAMA). |
| ACOS | American College of Surgeons: A professional medical association to improve the quality of care for surgical patients by elevating the standards of surgical education and practice. |
| ACS | American Cancer Society: A private cancer research organization, which supports, through grants, investigator-initiated projects in established medical and other scientific institutions across the country. |
| AHIMA | American Health Information Management Association: A group of credentialed (RRA, ART) professionals who collect and analyze a wide range of health information. |
| AJCC | American Joint Committee on Cancer: Organized in 1959 for the purpose of clinical staging, the AJCC decided to use the TNM system of the UICC to develop its own system of clinical and pathologic staging. Cooperation between 1982-87 has resulted in uniform and identical definitions and stage groupings of cancer for all sites between UICC and AJCC. |
| AMA | American Medical Association: A professional organization of practicing physicians. It also provides coordination and direction for allied health education to establish and maintain appropriate standards of patient care through its accreditation of allied medical education programs. |
| ASCO | American Society of Clinical Oncology: A society of oncologist, primarily medical, for the dissemination and exchange of cancer information. |
| ASSO | American Society of Surgical Oncology: A society of surgical oncologists for the dissemination and exchange of cancer information. |
| CCOP | Community Clinical Oncology Program; A cooperative agreement supported program which provides support to community-based oncologists to participate in clinical trials sponsored by the clinical cooperative groups an/or cancer centers. |
| COC | Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons: Representing 28 national professional organizations, the Commission seeks multidisciplinary co-operation in cancer management. It establishes standards for approval of cancer programs, stimulates cancer programs in institutions and communities, develops nationwide patient care evaluation studies of specific organ sites and types of malignancy as well as symposia and postgraduate courses on cancer for physicians. |
| JCAHCO | Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations: Formerly JCAH (hospital). Provides standards for accreditation of health care organizations and conducts surveys to determine and organization's degree of compliance as well as provides acceptable ways to bring the organization into compliance. |
| NTRA | National Tumor Registrars Association: A professional non-profit organization to promote the level of knowledge and performance of tumor registrars through educational standards and continuing education as well as to improve and standardize the compiling of tumor registry information. |
| Acronym | Organization |
|---|---|
| IACR | International Association of Cancer Registries: A voluntary non-governmental organization established in 1970 to represent the scientific and professional interests of cancer registries interested in the development and application of cancer registration and morbidity survey techniques to studies of well-defined populations. |
| IARC | International Agency for Research on Cancer: Established in 1965 within the framework of the World Health Organization (WHO), IARC is dedicated to research on cancer, particularly epidemiology of cancer and study of potential carcinogens in the human environment. |
| UICC | International Union Against Cancer (Union internationale Contre le Cancer): An organization established to monitor cancer throughout the world. It disseminates current knowledge of cancer, its prevention, early detection, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation, and continuing care as well as knowledge in basic and clinical cancer research. It was first in the development of the TNM Clinical Staging Classification in the early 1950's, one of its many accomplishments. |
| WHO | World Health Organization: A United Nations organization established to monitor world health. It divides the world into seven regions with a headquarters in each region. |
| Acronym | Publication & On-Line Data Bases |
|---|---|
| ACTUR | The Automated Central Tumor Registry System: A Department of Defense automated central tumor registry system established by the Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS) for Army, Navy, and Air Force hospitals. |
| GRATEUL MED | A system for simplifying the process of searching for and retrieving biomedical information on the MEDLARS system. |
| ICD-O | The International Classification of Diseases for Oncology: The ICD-O, First Edition (1976), (published by WHO) permits coding of all neoplasms by topography, histology (norphology), and behavior. It also provides a separate grading and differentiation code. The ICD-O, Second Edition (1990), went into general use in the United States in 1992. |
| MEDLARS | The MEDLARS system (NLM) is a basic guide to searching the various biomedical databases. It contains more than 20 separate databases, such as, MEDLINE to search for articles in recent journals, CANCELIT to search for cancer literature, and CHEMLINE to search for chemical compounds. |
| MEDLINE | An online version of Index Medicus published by the National Library of Medicine (NLM). It contains information (abstracts) about the documents, but not the documents themselves. |
| PDQ | The Physicians Data Query: An online data base which makes state-of-the-art treatment information, directory information, and protocol information available to the medical community. This database is maintained by the International Cancer Research Data Base Branch, International Cancer Information Center, NIC. |
| Acronym | Cause Coding System |
|---|---|
| ACME | Automated classification of medical entities — the computer program used by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) to select the underlying cause of death after the individual diagnoses have been coded. |
| MICAR | Mortality medical indexing, classification, and retrieval — a computer program that takes diagnoses and translates words into code numbers of ICD-9 (CM) |
| TRACER | Target recognition of automatically coded entity references — an automated coding program used at the Office of Population, Censuses and Surveys for coding death certificates |
| TRANSAX | Translate the Axis of Classification of the manually assigned codes into a form amenable to person-based analyses of multiple causes of death. This resolves multiple anomalies when coding death certificates in the United States. |
| Acronym | Study Group |
|---|---|
| BCCA | British Columbia Cancer Agency |
| BTCG | Brain Tumor Cooperative Group |
| BTSG | Brain Tumor Study Group |
| CALGA | Cancer and Leukemia Group A |
| CALGB | Cancer and Leukemia Group B |
| CCSG | Children's Cancer Study Group |
| CDEP | Central Clinical Drug Evaluation Program |
| COG | Central Oncology Group |
| ECOG | Easter Cooperative Oncology Group |
| GITSG | Gastrointestinal Study Group |
| GOG | Gynecologic Oncology Group |
| HNCP | Head and Neck Contracts Program |
| HTSG | Hepatic Tumor Study Group |
| IAML | Acute Myelocytic Leukemia Intergroup |
| INTERG | Intergroup (Other) |
| IRS | Intergroup Rhabdomyosarcoma Study |
| LCSG | Lung Cancer Study Group |
| MAOP | Mid-Atlantic Oncology Program |
| MARCOG | Mid-Atlantic Regional Co-Op Oncology Group |
| NABMTG | North American Bone Marrow Treatment Group |
| NBCG | National Bladder Cancer Group |
| NCCTG | North Central Cancer Treatment Group |
| NCOG | Northern California Oncology Group |
| NORCA | Nutrition Oncology Research Cooperative Association |
| NPCTG | National Prostatic Cancer Treatment Group |
| NSABP | National Surgery Adjuvant Project for Breast and Bowel Cancers |
| POA | Piedmont Oncology Association |
| POG | Pediatric Oncology Group |
| PVACCG | Pacific VA Cancer Chemotherapy Group |
| PVSG | Polycythemia Vera Study Group |
| RTOG | Radiation Therapy Oncology Group |
| SECSG | Southeastern Cancer Study Group |
| SWOG | Southwest Oncology Group |
| TPN | Total Parenteral Nutrition Group |
| UORG | Uro-Oncology Research Group |
| VALG | V. A. Lung Group |
| VASOG | V. A. Surgical Oncology Group |
| VBCG | V. A. Chemotherapy Group |
| WCCG | Western Cancer Chemotherapy Group |
| WCG | Weski Cancer Group |
| WTSG | Wilms' Tumor Study Group |
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