Reporting Melanoma: A Nationwide Surveillance of State Cancer Registries

Table 1

Reporting methods available to mandated melanoma reporters across US state cancer registries.

States; (all except Kansas)	Electronic reporting method available	Electronic-only	Non-electronic-only	Hardcopy path reports	Registry requests reports	Provider request reporting forms	Downloadable forms online
Alabama	‡			‡		‡
Alaska	‡			‡			‡
Arizona	‡			‡	‡		‡
Arkansas	‡			‡	‡		‡
California	‡			‡	‡		‡
Colorado	‡			‡	‡	‡
Connecticut	‡			‡	‡
Delaware	‡			‡			‡
Florida	‡	‡
Georgia	‡			‡
Hawaii	‡			‡	‡
Idaho	‡			‡	‡		‡
Illinois	‡	‡
Indiana	‡			‡		‡	‡
Iowa	‡			‡	‡	‡
Kentucky	‡			‡	‡
Louisiana	‡			‡	‡
Maine			‡	‡			‡
Maryland	‡			‡	‡		‡
Massachusetts			‡	‡	‡	‡
Michigan	‡			‡			‡
Minnesota	‡			‡	‡
Mississippi	‡			‡	‡	‡
Missouri	‡			‡			‡
Montana	‡			‡	‡		‡
Nebraska	‡			‡	‡	‡
Nevada	‡			‡	‡	‡	‡
New Hampshire	‡			‡	‡		‡
New Jersey	‡			‡			‡
New Mexico	‡			‡	‡
New York	‡	‡
North Carolina	‡			‡	‡		‡
North Dakota	‡			‡	‡
Ohio	‡			‡			‡
Oklahoma	‡			‡
Oregon	‡			‡			‡
Pennsylvania	‡	‡
Rhode Island	‡	‡
South Carolina	‡			‡	‡	‡
South Dakota	‡			‡	‡
Tennessee	‡			‡	‡
Texas	‡	‡
Utah	‡			‡	‡		‡
Vermont	‡	‡
Virginia	‡			‡			‡
Washington	‡			‡	‡
West Virginia	‡			‡			‡
Wisconsin	‡			‡			‡
Wyoming	‡			‡	‡
Total (%)	47 (96)	7 (14)	2 (0.04)	42 (86)	27 (55)	9 (18)	22 (45)

‡Available; not available.
The “Electronic reporting method available” column elucidates the state cancer registries that have the capabilities for electronic reporting of diagnosed melanoma cases. The next two columns depict those states that allow an electronic-only transmission method and states that do not yet have capabilities for electronic transmission. The last four columns depict methods utilized by state cancer registries that allowed nonelectronic reporting. These include submission of hard copy path reports, periodic surveys to request pathology reports from practitioners, allowing providers to request melanoma reporting forms directly from their state cancer registries, and having melanoma reporting forms available for download on their websites.