Which type of registry focuses on data from specific facilities, a specific cancer site, or familial cancers?

• A. Specialty Cancer Registries
• B. Population-Based Registries
• C. NCDB Registries
• D. CoC Registries

Answer: (A)

Specialty cancer registries are designed to collect data for a focused purpose: data from a specific facility, a single cancer site, or familial cancers. This targeted approach supports focused quality improvement, site-specific epidemiology, and research into hereditary cancer patterns within a defined setting. Because the data come from a limited scope, they’re not meant to represent all cancers in a geographic population.

Population-based registries aim to capture every new cancer case in a defined area to study incidence and survival across an entire population. NCDB registries are hospital-based collections feeding the National Cancer Database from accredited facilities, rather than representing a whole community. CoC registries are tied to the Commission on Cancer’s accreditation programs and also focus on facility-level data rather than site- or family-specific populations.

Thus, the description fits specialty cancer registries.