Cancer Registrars
Overview
Introduction
Cancer registrars are responsible for collecting, compiling, and reporting full histories of cancer patients in a specific population, usually a hospital, or geographic area such as a state or country. To do so, the cancer registrar identifies, records, and maintains data regarding the symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and the status of individuals with cancer (tumors). Cancer registrars provide information for cancer registries which track individual patients from the time of diagnoses, with lifetime follow-up, in order to create dat...
Quick Facts
Median Salary
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Earnings
The Bureau of Labor Statistics references the cancer registrar as a “health information technologist and medical registrar” in the Occupational Outlook Handbook, reflecting a median pay in May 2023 of $62,990 annually. Salaries ranged from $38,310 or less to $107,650 or more per year.
However, a review of available jobs evidences substantially higher ranges of income based upon ...
Work Environment
Cancer registrar positions are most often located in offices in hospitals and health care facilities, or in state, federal or regional registry offices. However, as some data collection is required, there is some opportunity for “in the field” interviews to obtain initial or follow-up information. Additionally, there are some limited opportunities to perform data processing work from home rathe...
Outlook
The Department of Labor predicts much faster than average employment growth for medical registrars, including cancer registrars, and health information technologists. Approximately 16 percent job growth is expected through 2032, with about 3,100 new job openings each year in that time frame.
While no breakdown is given for cancer registrars, industry reports are consistent with respect t...