Overview
NAACCR offers grants and awards to U.S. Central Cancer Registries. The NAACCR Grant/Award Program is specifically designed for U.S. based Central Cancer Registries. Announcements will be posted here when funding becomes available. Each opportunity will be managed, critiqued, and monitored. Once funds are awarded, NAACCR will work directly with recipients to monitor project progress and adherence to deliverables of our funding
Your registry has qualified for the opportunity listed below. Interested registries should submit a single application by clicking on the “Apply Here” button and completing the application as instructed.
National Childhood Cancer Registry (NCCR) participation:
(Grant/Award: Funding TBD): To provide data on all childhood cancer cases for compilation into a National Childhood Cancer Registry. Deliverables include the following:
- Obtain necessary approvals for release of confidential data to IMS, Inc. (3rd party honest broker)
- Submit an annual file of edited, consolidated, de-duplicated, identifiable data on all childhood cancer cases (age 0-19) diagnosed from 1995 to the latest diagnosis year
- Include text documentation included in the abstracts from individual reports to support extraction of specific data items (e.g. chemotherapy agents) through the use of national language processing
Linkage with NCCR using the Virtual Pooled Registry (VPR):
(Grant/Award: Funding TBD): To perform annual VPR linkage with the NCCR to help identify subsequent primaries within the NCCR cohort. Deliverables include the following:
- Participate in annual VPR linkage between your full registry file and the NCCR cohort file to identify subsequent primaries
- Utilize the VPR system and standard protocol for linkage using Match*Pro
- Perform manual adjudication of possible matches
- Submit data to IMS for incorporation into the NCCR
