| AACCR | American Association of Central Cancer Registries |
| ACoS | American College of Surgeons |
| ACS | American Cancer Society |
| AJCC | American Joint Committee on Cancer |
| BNA | Block Numbering Area |
| CCCR | Canadian Council of Cancer Registries |
| CDC | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
| CIN | Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia |
| CIS | Carcinoma in situ |
| CLIA | Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act |
| CoC | Commission on Cancer (of ACoS) |
| CPT | Current Procedural Terminology (codes) |
| CRC | Cyclic redundancy code |
| CS | Collaborative Staging |
| CTR | Certified Tumor Registrar |
| DAM | Data Acquisition Manual (of ACoS) |
| DCO | Death Certificate Only |
| EOD | Extent of Disease |
| FIPS | Federal Information Processing Standards |
| FORDS | Facility Oncology Registry Data Standards (manual of ACoS) |
| FTRO | Fundamental Tumor Registry Operations Program (of ACoS) |
| GenEDITS | Generic EDITS Drive Program |
| GIS | Geographic Information System |
| HCFA | Health Care Finance Administration |
| HIM | Health Information Management |
| IACR | International Association of Cancer Registrars |
| IARC | International Agency for Research on Cancer |
| ICD | International Classification of Diseases |
| ICD-O | International Classification of Diseases for Oncology |
| ICD-O-1 | International Classification of Diseases for Oncology, First Edition |
| ICD-O-2 | International Classification of Diseases for Oncology, Second Edition |
| ICD-O-3 | International Classification of Diseases for Oncology, Third Edition |
| N.d. | No date (bibliographic term: no ascertainable place of publication) |
| NAACCR | North American Association of Central Cancer Registries |
| NAPIIA | NAACCR Asian/Pacific Islander Identification Algorithm |
| NCCCS | National Coordinating Council for Cancer Surveillance |
| NCDB | National Cancer Data Base |
| NCI | National Cancer Institute |
| NCRA | National Cancer Registrars Association |
| NHIA | NAACCR Hispanic Identification Algorithm |
| NPCR | National Program of Cancer Registries |
| NPI | National Provider Identifier |
| PIN | Prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia |
| ROADS | Registry Operations and Data Standards (manual of ACoS) |
| RX | Treatment |
| SEER | Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program of NCI |
| SIL | Squamous intraepithelial lesion |
| SS | Summary Stage |
| SSF | Site Specific Factor |
| TNM | Tumor, Nodes and Metastasis: staging system of AJCC and UICC |
| UDSWG | Uniform Data Standards Work Group of NAACCR |
| UICC | Union Internationale Contre le Cancer (in English, International Union Against Cancer) |
| USPS | United States Postal Service |
| WHO | World Health Organization |