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Training Programs in CANCER REGISTRATION, SURVEILLANCE, and CONTROL
Principles and Practice of Cancer Registration,
Surveillance, and Control


Training Session Dates


March 12-16 , 2007 Register October 15-19, 2007 Register
July 23-27 , 2007 Register    


Program Information
Course Content
Program Instructors
Who Should Attend
Fees and Registration
Cancellations
Prerequisites
Reference Materials

Program Information
This intensive and comprehensive training program is taught by a staff of recognized experts in cancer registration, surveillance, and control. The instructors are accomplished adult trainers and are recognized as leaders in their fields. The training will be held at the Holiday Inn Express Hotel and Suites, 2183 North Decatur Road, Decatur, Georgia 30033, located in the Atlanta-Emory University area.

Who Should Attend
This program is suitable for oncology program (hospital-based and central registry-based) employees with minimal knowledge of cancer, anatomy, physiology, and medical terminology. Cancer registrars with less than one year of experience or statistical and epidemiological staff who utilize cancer registry data would benefit most from this program. Class size will be limited and is available on a first come, first served basis.

Fees and Registration
The registration fee is $1000 for the weeklong training. A 10% discount will be given to participants registered and paid in full one month prior to the training course. The fee includes classroom and individualized instruction, a large comprehensive instructional manual (you may want to bring a wheeled carrier of some sort to cart this manual, and your other manuals, around with you) developed especially for this program, training materials, and morning and afternoon refreshment breaks. Sorry, but due to the high volume of credit card fraud and bad debt, we are not able to accept credit cards for payment. We do, however, accept cash, checks, money orders, purchase orders, and training orders.

Participants are responsible for their own travel, meals, and incidental expenses.

A participant is considered registered for the program when full payment of fees is received. To reserve your place, complete the registration form for the training session you wish to attend and send it with a check made payable to Emory University to the following address:

Emory University
Georgia Center for Cancer Statistics
Attn: Gerrie Claxton
1462 Clifton Road, NE; 5th Floor
Atlanta, Georgia 30322

Please note:
We recognize the fact that it takes time to get the administrative details taken care of in a health facility or government office. However, in order to plan for meeting room space and materials, you must notify the Training Program Coordinator of your intent to register. The FEIN (tax ID number) of Emory University is: 58-0566256

Cancellations
Registration fees minus a $100.00 administrative fee will be refunded if notice of cancellation is received in writing more than two weeks prior to the start of the training program. After that time, fees are non-refundable.

Hotel Information
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites located at 2183 North Decatur Road, Decatur, Georgia 30033 in the Atlanta-Emory University area. Please make your reservations directly with the Holiday Inn at 1-404-320-0888. Click here for more hotel information.

Travel Information
The Holiday Inn Express Hotel and Suites is accessible from Atlanta 's Hartsfield Airport by cab. Cabs from the airport cost approximately $40.00 each way. The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) rail system also runs from the Airport directly to the city of Decatur (Decatur Station - E6). Single way fare is $1.75. From the Decatur Station, it's only a 1.6 mile cab ride to the Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites located at 2183 North Decatur Road , Decatur , Georgia 30033.

Visiting Atlanta
There are multiple cultural, social, tourist and educational activities available in and around Atlanta, including the Jimmy Carter Presidential Center, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, the Georgia Aquarium, Stone Mountain, the Cyclorama, the World of Coca-Cola Museum, Underground Atlanta, the High Museum of Art, Six Flags over Georgia, and many more. Please note that because of the intense training schedule and the amount of homework assigned during the week, we recommend that you plan any extracurricular activities for the days before or after the training program.

Prerequisites
By the start of the workshop, participants should be familiar with (at a minimum) the contents of the Instructional Manuals for Tumor Registrars, Book One (Objectives and Functions of a Tumor Registry) and Book Three (Tumor Registrar Vocabulary: the Composition of Medical Terms). These Instruction Manuals are available free from the National Cancer Institute's SEER Program. The manuals can be ordered or downloaded in PDF format from http://seer.cancer.gov/cgi-bin/pubs/order1.pl?BOOK,CODING,CONV,MONO,CSR,ABOUT

Other materials will be provided during the training program. Homework (reading and exercises) will be assigned Monday through Thursday nights.

Reference Materials
One of the features of this program is training in how to use registry coding manuals and other abstracting tools. To actively participate in the exercises, you MUST bring the following references: