Pancreas Cancer Abstracting Boot Camp

Categories: pancreas cancer

About Course

Begin with the normal pancreas, its digestive and hormone functions, nearby lymph nodes, how pancreatic cancers develop, 2026 statistics, risk factors, symptoms, and the diagnostic workup. No registry coding is required in the first module.

Then build an abstract step by step: pancreatic subsite and histology; Solid Tumor Rules; grade and site-specific data items; pretreatment extent, nodes and stage; how treatment works; and how surgery, radiation and systemic therapy are coded from actual treatment records. Short decisions and feedback appear throughout.

Practice writing source-based abstract text and work through five fictional longitudinal charts with sectioned imaging, pathology, physician and treatment documents. The interactive lab includes coded selections and text fields. Its automatic check covers a core set; review additional fields with current 2026 manuals. Finish with a comprehensive 20-question exam and a course feedback questionnaire. Designed for new cancer registry learners.

Course Content

Module 1: Meet the Pancreas and Understand the Disease
Begin with the organ’s anatomy and normal functions. Learn how pancreatic cancer develops and spreads, which symptoms lead to a workup, and what imaging, endoscopy, and pathology can tell the care team. No registry codes are required.

Meet the Pancreas: Anatomy and Its Normal Jobs
What Pancreatic Cancer Is and How It Spreads
From Symptoms to Diagnosis: A Pancreatic Workup
Module 1 Summary: Pancreas, Disease, and Workup
Module 1 Review: Pancreas and Diagnostic Workup
Module 1 Feedback: Pancreatic Site and Sources

Module 2: Pancreas Solid Tumor Rules and Histology
Apply the 2026.1 Other Sites solid tumor rules to count pancreatic primaries and assign histology from the most appropriate record source. Work through separate tumors, Table 11 relationships, neoadjuvant timing, recap, review, and feedback.

Module 3: Pancreatic Grade and Site Specific Data Items
Choose the 2026 pancreas or NET Pancreas schema, separate clinical, pathological, and posttherapy grade, and capture the applicable CA 19-9 or Ki-67 value from the right source and time frame. Includes interactive chart decisions, recap, scored review, and feedback.

Module 4: Pancreatic Extent, Nodes, and Stage
Use 2026 SEER*RSA to code EOD primary tumor, regional nodes, and distant metastasis for pancreas and NET pancreas; connect the evidence to Summary Stage and the appropriate AJCC staging source. Includes interactive decisions, recap, review, and feedback.

Module 5: Pancreatic Surgery and Treatment Effect
Abstract first-course pancreatic surgery from operative and pathology reports, distinguish Whipple variants and distal or total pancreatectomy, document regional node and other-site procedures, and assess post-neoadjuvant treatment effect. Includes chart decisions, recap, review, and learner feedback.

Module 6: Radiation and Systemic Therapy
Trace first-course pancreatic radiation and systemic therapy from treatment records. Code radiation phases, modality and technique; classify drugs with SEER*Rx; distinguish administered from planned treatment and record sequence with surgery. Includes chart decisions, recap, review, and feedback.

Module 7: Pancreatic Practice Abstracts
Apply anatomy, reportability, histology, grade, stage, surgery, radiation, and systemic treatment coding to five fictional but realistic patient records. Read full chart notes and reports, enter coded fields in the practice lab, compare feedback, and complete a module reflection.

Module 8: Pancreas Boot Camp Wrap-Up
Bring the full pancreas abstracting workflow together in a course summary, complete a 20-question comprehensive final exam, and share separate feedback about the learning experience.

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Course Content

Module 1: Meet the Pancreas and Understand the Disease Begin with the organ’s anatomy and normal functions. Learn how pancreatic cancer develops and spreads, which symptoms lead to a workup, and what imaging, endoscopy, and pathology can tell the care team. No registry codes are required.

Meet the Pancreas: Anatomy and Its Normal Jobs

What Pancreatic Cancer Is and How It Spreads

From Symptoms to Diagnosis: A Pancreatic Workup

Module 1 Summary: Pancreas, Disease, and Workup

Module 1 Review: Pancreas and Diagnostic Workup

Module 1 Feedback: Pancreatic Site and Sources

Module 2: Pancreas Solid Tumor Rules and Histology Apply the 2026.1 Other Sites solid tumor rules to count pancreatic primaries and assign histology from the most appropriate record source. Work through separate tumors, Table 11 relationships, neoadjuvant timing, recap, review, and feedback.

Count Pancreatic Primaries: Apply the Rules in Order

Code Pancreatic Histology from the Right Source

Module 2 Summary: Rule, Source, Code

Module 2 Review: Pancreas Primaries and Histology

Module 2 Feedback: Pancreas Solid Tumor Rules

Primary Site Coding: Pancreatic Point of Origin

Diagnostic Evidence and Reportability Decisions

Choose the Schema and Grade Time Frame

Capture CA 19-9 and Ki-67 from the Correct Record

Module 3 Summary: Schema, Grade, Lab

Module 3 Review: Pancreatic Grade and SSDIs

Module 3 Feedback: Grade and Pancreas SSDIs

Code EOD Primary Tumor from the Anatomy in the Chart

Sort Regional Nodes from Distant Spread

Turn Extent Evidence into Summary Stage and AJCC Workup

Module 4 Summary: Trace the Spread

Module 4 Review: Pancreatic Extent and Stage

Module 4 Feedback: Pancreatic Staging

Read the Operative Report: Pancreas Surgery Codes

Complete the Surgical Fields Beyond the Pancreatectomy

Connect Neoadjuvant Therapy to Resection Pathology

Module 5 Summary: Code What Was Done

Module 5 Review: Pancreatic Surgery and Treatment Effect

Module 5 Feedback: Surgery and Treatment Effect

Read the Radiation Course: Phase, Modality, and Target

Classify Systemic Agents from the Medication Record

Build the First-Course Timeline and Sequence

Module 6 Summary: Trace the Actual Treatment

Module 6 Review: Radiation and Systemic Therapy

Module 6 Feedback: Treatment Coding

How to Write a Pancreas Abstract: Text Practice

Five-Case Pancreas Full Abstract Lab

Module 7 Summary: From Chart to Abstract

Module 7 Feedback: Practice Abstracts

Module 8: Pancreas Boot Camp Wrap-Up Bring the full pancreas abstracting workflow together in a course summary, complete a 20-question comprehensive final exam, and share separate feedback about the learning experience.

Pancreas Boot Camp: Whole-Course Summary

Pancreas Boot Camp Comprehensive Final Exam

Pancreas Boot Camp Course Review

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Module 1: Meet the Pancreas and Understand the Disease
Begin with the organ’s anatomy and normal functions. Learn how pancreatic cancer develops and spreads, which symptoms lead to a workup, and what imaging, endoscopy, and pathology can tell the care team. No registry codes are required.

Module 2: Pancreas Solid Tumor Rules and Histology
Apply the 2026.1 Other Sites solid tumor rules to count pancreatic primaries and assign histology from the most appropriate record source. Work through separate tumors, Table 11 relationships, neoadjuvant timing, recap, review, and feedback.

Module 8: Pancreas Boot Camp Wrap-Up
Bring the full pancreas abstracting workflow together in a course summary, complete a 20-question comprehensive final exam, and share separate feedback about the learning experience.