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The Cancer Information Management (CIM) Program equips students for careers in both hospital and population-based cancer registries. Typical duties involve: detecting reportable cancer cases, extracting relevant cancer information from medical records including pathology, radiology, and surgical reports, classifying and staging tumors by primary site, histology, and disease progression, ensuring data accuracy, timeliness, and completeness, conducting patient follow-ups to track secondary cancers, recurrences, and metastasis, submitting cancer statistics to healthcare professionals, administrators, physicians, and regulatory bodies for cancer prevention initiatives, supporting medical teams and researchers in specialized projects, and overseeing personnel.