By Jamie Thompson, CTR
Tumor Registry Program Administrator, Armes Family Cancer Care Center
What is a certified tumor registrar (CTR)? Do they register tumors? In a sense, yes. Certified tumor registrars work in a cancer registry, with a primary responsibility to create a data file for all patients with a new cancer diagnosis. Information recorded includes demographics, medical history, tumor-specific characteristics, stage, treatment and patient outcomes.
Ten Bluffton businesses and the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce are continuing the tradition of the downtown Christmas Open House on November 4-5. Check your mail for a flyer detailing the special offers and holiday gift ideas to be found downtown.
The Dough Hook Meat Market is teaming up with Ronald McDonald House Charities of Northwest Ohio to help those in need. Throughout the months of November and December, The Dough Hook Meat Market will be collecting cash donations that will be turned into meat for the house’s freezer.
