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April Fritz NCRA Educational Virtual Conference Scholarships
April Fritz Memorial Fund NCRA Annual Educational Virtual Conference Scholarships: An Opportunity to Join NCRA's 2021 Virtual Conference
The National Cancer Registrars Association (NCRA) Education Foundation is providing scholarships to the NCRA 2021 Annual Educational Virtual Conference with support from the April Fritz Memorial Fund.
The scholarships are intended for cancer registry staff working in low resource nations specifically and will provide access to the “live” virtual conference to be held June 3-5, 2021 in EST along with “on demand” viewing of all sessions presented through June 30, 2021.
Applications will be accepted through May 7, 2021. Candidates selected for the scholarships will be notified via email by May 19, 2021.
To apply for a scholarship please complete the scholarship application by May 7th: https://app.surveymethods.com/EndUser.aspx?83A7CBD483C0D3D181
About April Fritz, RHIT, CTR: April Fritz's name is interwoven throughout the story of cancer surveillance. As an employee in both the public and private sectors and as a volunteer to many nonprofits, April played a pivotal role advancing cancer surveillance and, in turn, improving public health worldwide. April’s passion extended well beyond the U.S. and as an active IACR member, volunteer and educator we feel this scholarship embodies April’s enthusiasm to promote knowledge and education.
Prof John L. Young: A Tribute
With deep sadness, NAACCR and IACR announce the passing of our colleague, IACR Honorary Member, Dr. John L Young Jr. on 11 March 2021.
He served as IACR General Secretary in 1983 -1986 and President in 1996 - 1999.
John is considered to be the “father” of cancer surveillance in North America and instrumental to establishing and advancing the principles of this field worldwide. While serving in the Public Health Service, he was employed at the National Cancer Institute 50 years ago during the establishment of the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Program. Working with Charles Smart, William Haenzel, Sidney Cutler, and Constance Percy, among others, John defined the rules and standard operating procedures for the SEER Program, and ultimately the nation and the world. He also worked closely with Calum Muir and Max Parkin at the International Association of Cancer Registries (IACR), serving as President, as an editor of Cancer in Five Continents (Volume VII), and as an advisor to population based registries worldwide. 
Through this work, the first standardized and aggregated cancer incidence data were published on a national and international scale, leading to the foundation of descriptive cancer epidemiology and the study of regional variation in cancer incidence. He led the SEER Program until retiring from the Public Health Service in the late 1980s when he moved to California to lead the establishment of the Greater California Cancer Registry with others such as Don Austin and Dee West. During his tenure in California, John played a pivotal role in the establishment of the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR), and served as its first President. In the 1990s John joined the faculty of Emory University in Atlanta and served as the Director of the Atlanta SEER registry, and as an advisor to the National Program of Cancer Registries at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
More important than all of these significant achievements and contributions to the science of cancer surveillance, John served as a mentor and advisor to us all. Without text books or formal training programs in cancer registration and cancer surveillance John shared his knowledge and opinions freely guiding hundreds of cancer surveillance professionals. His tag line about data quality, “Purification Through Use”, still resonates with us today. John was cancer surveillance’s equivalent of Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Finally, John will be remembered as a man with an enormous heart, generous spirit and witty sense of humor. John dearly loved his family, friends and colleagues and found many ways to enrich our lives both professionally and privately. He will be sorely missed and long remembered as friend, a mentor, and for his positive influence on us all.
Cancer registry news on Twitter
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For our cancer registry members and colleagues: contact us if you would like us to share your publications, research and activities on this website, our mailing list and on twitter.
Updates on ICD-O 3.2 and ICD-O 4
Please read through our page on the International Classification of Diseases for Oncology (ICD-O) for new announcements concerning ICD-O-3.2 and the work that will start for ICD-O-4:
New guidelines on staging of paediatric cancers
New Paediatric Non-Stage Prognosticator Guidelines & an update of 2014 Toronto Stage Guidelines by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) & partners have been published.
The guidelines were developed by a panel of international experts and stakeholders during a meeting held at IARC, covering the collection of standardized information, which facilitates the interpretation and comparison of data on survival and mortality across regions and over time. The panel also reviewed and updated the 2014 Toronto Paediatric Cancer Stage Guidelines.
Read the article in the Lancet Oncology here: Development of paediatric non-stage prognosticator guidelines for population-based cancer registries and updates to the 2014 Toronto Paediatric Cancer Stage Guidelines
