Registry Plus™ Online Help Features and Future Plans

Features

Version 12.1 Release Notes

• The NAACCR Data Standards and Data Dictionary component has been updated to version 12.1.
• Help for standardized edits has been added in the components NAACCR V12.1B Edits Metafile Online Help.
• The Commission on Cancer FORDS component has been updated with changes effective for 2011.
• The SEER Program Coding and Staging Manual 2011 has been added.
• The Collaborative Stage manual component has been updated to version 02.03, and both Parts I and II are included.

Historical Features

• Online Help can be used with any Microsoft^® Windows^® application, not just with Registry Plus programs.
• Online Help is produced by CDC from electronic versions of manuals from the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR), the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Program, the Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons, and the World Health Organization.
• The manuals are reformatted for online viewing.
• Online Help has been incorporated into software products of several other vendors, including CNExt, Rocky Mountain Cancer Data System, and Elekta Impac Software. The Abstract Plus version includes the Registry Plus Abstract Plus User's Guide.
• Online Help is updated annually with the latest published version of the included manuals, plus published errata or additions.

Future Plans

The Registry Plus Online Help Development Priority List is a list of development tasks prioritized by the NPCR Registry Plus development team. Each task is the direct result of meetings with the Registry Plus User Group (RPUG) as well as requests from individual cancer registries and leaders in the cancer registry field.