Cancer Registrar - Cancer Care Registry & Analytics

to apply as an internal applicant.

Req : 215075

Location:

Provincial Zone, Home Work Site FT (5 days/week)
Department: CANC Cancer Care Registry & Analytics
Type of Employment: Casual Hourly FT long-assignment (100%) x 1
NSGEU Admin Professionals Position
Posting Closing Date: 26-Jan-26

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About the Opportunity

The Cancer Registrar (CR) is a staging & classification specialist providing cancer-specific health care data for the Province of Nova Scotia. This data resides in the provincial Cancer Registry Information System (CRIS).

The CR combines, reviews, analyses, and interprets a wide range of data types from various reports (e.g. radiology/laboratory, physician consult records, etc.), and from multiple sources (e.g. pathology reports, clinical information systems, death records etc.) to classify and stage the primary tumour and create standardized datasets for cancer cases diagnosed and managed in Nova Scotia. The purpose of this job is to provide timely, complete and accurate cancer-specific health care data to support cancer surveillance activities (incidence, stage, mortality and survival data) to the NSHA Cancer Care Program (NSHA CCP).

The CR accomplishes this through research, abstraction, analysis and interpretation of complex medical information to determine the appropriate morphology and topography codes, the stage at diagnosis for all cancer diagnosed for Nova Scotia residents and collect pertinent information for all patients in CRIS. These data are published in provincial, national and international publications and support cancer surveillance, epidemiological research, quality control initiatives, cancer control management and system performance, health services planning and management decisions.

The CR must know, understand, and apply complex rule sets for multiple primary, histology, stage assignment (AJCC 8th Edition) and International Classification of Diseases for Oncology (ICD-O-3) classification. The CR collects, analyzes and interprets health data throughout the patient’s life span starting with diagnosis. The CR must ensure periodic review of all related cancer resource material (cytology, pathology, autopsy reports, admission/discharge data from the provincial hospital abstracting system, vital statistics death listings, hospital and clinic charts) to update health status, treatment activity and outcomes at defined intervals.

About You

We would love to hear from you if you have the following:

• Graduate of a Health Information Management Program plus active certification
• Two years' experience working in Cancer Registry
• Oncology Data Specialist certified credential (ODS)
  • If no applicants demonstrate two years of experience in a Cancer Registry and ODS certification; consideration may be given to applicants who have completed a Health Information Management program plus active certification
• Knowledge of legislation surrounding health information (e.g. Nova Scotia Personal Health Information Act)
• Experience with…