We are an office of 2 CTRs.
We accession ~1000 cases annually.
We follow ~6200 pts a year. (Our registry is 21 years old with the
original reference year.)
We do all our own quality checks and hold the doctors' hand when they
do their review.
We have weekly general tumor board and bi-weekly lung board. The Heme
dept holds a bi-weekly lymphoma board and we just keep stats for
them.

We have 2 volunteers for a total of 5 hours a week. They collate,
file, do data entry, etc.
We presented to Administration the need to create a succession plan.
Since it takes 3-5 years to home-grow a registrar, it isn't too early
to plan.
I would prefer to forgo the volunteers and hire in at least a part-
time registrar; if not a FT one.

Nancyctr

--- In cancerregistrargroup@yahoogroups.com, loril_ga <no_reply@...>
wrote:
>
> I am a single registrar at a hospital and since I started the
caseload
> has gone from 500+ cases to over 900+ for 2007. I am trying to
justify
> the hiring of at least one more FTE. We are not an approved
program
> but hope to be sometime in 2009. We have monthly tumor conferences
and
> cancer committee every other month (6 a year). I do everything
that is
> required for an ACOS program....abstract, follow up, casefinding,
QA,
> tumor conference, cancer committee, studies, etc.
>
> I would like to hear from others with the same caseload and how
many
> FTE's they have in order to have information to back my request for
> additional help. Please either post here or email me at
> Loraine.Lindsey@...
>