NCDB 2024 New Year Updates

Effective January 15, 2024, the RCRS has been updated to accept v24 and will no longer accept v22. After this date, submissions to the RCRS platform in v22 will be rejected. If your program is still using v22 please reach out to your registry’s software vendor. Software vendors were informed of these routine annual changes on October 11, 2023.

The Standards for Oncology Registry Entry (STORE) 2024 final version was released December 19, 2023 on the NCDB Call for Data website under Registry Manuals and is in effect for cases with a diagnosis year of 2024.

The 2024 Call for Data will be open between March 1 – 31, 2024 until 11:59 pm CT. Complete instructions are available on the NCDB Call for Data website. 

2024 will be the last year for the Call for Data as currently defined.  The NCDB is shifting to using the monthly RCRS submissions of all new and updated cases to provide a more real-time cohort of patient cases for our CoC-accredited programs. 

Future Calls for Data will be assessed at the end of the calendar year for the prior diagnosis year of cases.  For example, on December 31, 2024, the NCDB will take a snapshot of the combined monthly RCRS data submissions from diagnosis years 2023 and prior to be included in NCDB annual tool builds in 2025.  Registrars may consult the Completeness Report Cohort tab to monitor progress toward their program’s submission of full caseloads.