The main responsibility of the cancer registrar is to collect, analyze, maintain, and organize accurate and uniform information on patients with cancerous conditions. This data is entered into the local, state, and national level databases for various healthcare agencies (DegreeFinder, 2009). The cancer registrar may be required to extract needed information as requested by healthcare providers to assist in patient care or research. Requiring intense attention to detail, the cancer registrar must be able to identify cancer cases and abstract significant information from patient records to be entered into the registry through coding. To do so, the cancer registrar must possess the medical knowledge and education needed to examine patient records, pathology reports, treatments, and interventions related to the various types of cancers and then accurately allocate a specific code for the diagnosis and treatments that adheres to national coding standards (Mariani, 2004).…