New RCRS Feature Allows Case Deactivation

On September 23, the CoC and the NCDB released a new feature of the Rapid Cancer Reporting System (RCRS), which will provide users with the ability to deactivate individual cases in RCRS, eliminating the need to contact IQVIA technical support for this issue. Only users who have been assigned the Uploader role under the program’s QPort Data Site Contacts can use this new feature.

Examples of when to deactivate a case in RCRS include:

• A case was accessioned and submitted to RCRS and later found to be not reportable for the program
• A case with a sequence 00 (indicating the only primary for patient) and patient develops additional malignant primaries (indicating the first of multiple primaries would be assigned as sequence 01)

If a case has been deactivated in RCRS and then resubmitted to RCRS, the case will be rejected. To successfully submit a previously deactivated case the registrar can select between:

• Assigning the case a new accession/sequence number and then submitting the case to RCRS

OR

• Reactivating the deactivated case in RCRS by completing the CSV reactivation template and uploading the completed template to the CSV Uploader for Patient Record Reactivation per the instructions provided in the RCRS Library. Once the registrar has reactivated the case in RCRS, the rejected case can be submitted.

Users will be able to run reports in RCRS for all deactivated cases.

Complete instructions on how to deactivate and reactivate cases are available in the RCRS Library.