[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 59 (Wednesday, March 27, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 14718]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-7277]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-02-35]


Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and 
Recommendations

    In compliance with the requirement of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for opportunity for public comment on 
proposed data collection projects, the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic summaries of proposed projects. 
To request more information on the proposed projects or to obtain a 
copy of the data collection plans and instruments, call the CDC Reports 
Clearance Officer on (404) 498-1210.
    Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of 
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of 
the agency, including whether the information shall have practical 
utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the 
proposed collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality, 
utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways 
to minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents, 
including through the use of automated collection techniques or other 
forms of information technology. Send comments to Anne O'Connor, CDC 
Assistant Reports Clearance Officer, 1600 Clifton Road, MS-D24, 
Atlanta, GA 30333. Written comments should be received within 60 days 
of this notice.
    Proposed Project: Survey of Dentists to Obtain Information that 
will Improve the Reporting of Oral and Pharyngeal Cancers--New--
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion 
(NCCDPHP), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
    Legislation in most States requires the collection of incidence and 
mortality data on all types of cancers to identify cancer control needs 
and to track progress in reducing cancer incidence and deaths. These 
data include the counting of cancer cases as well as basic medical 
information about these cases such as the stage of the tumors at time 
of diagnosis. The goal of this project is to help the States of West 
Virginia and South Carolina to improve the accuracy, completeness and 
timeliness of oral and pharyngeal cancer data in their Central Cancer 
Registries. Oral and pharyngeal cancer is the focus of this project 
because it is suspected that many cases of these cancers are currently 
undercounted and the quality of available data is in need of 
improvement. In addition, oral and pharyngeal cancers have very poor 5-
year survival (less than 50%), yet most are preventable. Therefore, 
control of oral and pharyngeal cancer is an important public health 
goal of these State Health Departments. These improved data will better 
meet the State's own legal mandate of cancer surveillance as part of 
the State public health infrastructure, and assist in the planning and 
evaluation of oral and pharyngeal cancer control efforts.
    While cancer registries routinely receive pathology reports of 
tumor diagnoses, it is possible that for some cases of oral and 
pharyngeal cancer, the pathology specimens are sent to special 
pathology labs associated with dental schools, or to out-of-state 
laboratories. To ascertain these under-utilized pathology reporting 
sources, a simple survey will be sent to dental health providers 
(mostly dentists and oral surgeons). All such providers will be 
surveyed in West Virginia, while a sample of providers will be surveyed 
in South Carolina. The survey will ask if oral cancer screening is 
performed in the practice, if suspicious lesions are biopsied in the 
practice, and if not, to which specialists are referrals made. If the 
practice performs biopsies of oral lesions, the name and address of the 
pathology laboratory will be requested. These laboratories will be 
informed of their responsibility to report newly diagnosed tumors to 
the State Central Cancer Registry. There are no costs to respondents.

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                                                                          Number of      Average
                                                            Number of     responses     burden of   Total burden
                       Respondents                         respondents       per        response      (in hours)
                                                                         respondent    (in hours)
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Dentist and Oral Surgeons...............................         1600             1         12/60           320
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      Total.............................................  ............  ............  ............          320
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    Dated: March 18, 2002.
Nancy Cheal,
Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning and Evaluation, Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 02-7277 Filed 3-26-02; 8:45 am]
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